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Unseen poetry- Words: a) How do you think the child in the poem feels about trying to understand and use words? b) How does the post use language and other techniques to show these feelings?
The young kid is telling us all the words he gets called when he gets bullied. Words are a hurtful thing and it always “makes him cry”. One of his quotations was, “I’m seven and I’m dead bright, but words give me a fright.” He is saying it in rhytmictic way and a little kid…
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Plan: Compare how the poets present their view about aggression: Hawk Roosting and The Falling of the Leaves.
Key quotations Context Similarities and differences Conclusion Writers elements and aspects Language device The way the poem speaks out Both of these poems titles are showing us that they are combining each poem into one story as “hawk roosting” and “the falling of the leaves” are sharing the same story as it has to something…
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The falling leaves and Hawk roosting
The poem called the falling leaves is a diary written about what had happened on that day. One of her quotations was, “Today as I rode by, I saw brown leaves falling from their tree.” By that she is thinking about her family, I know this because this diary was based in Novemeber 1915 and…
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Hawk Roosting Notes
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Explore a phrase and expand on the many possible references it can offer
Page 58- Premonition: Some people claim to have premonitions, such as a dream about a friend they haven’t seen in years the night before the friend dies. A premonition is a warning that comes in advance, or a feeling that something is going to happen. One of the quotations from Page 58 was, “We had…
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Sylvia Plath’s feelings
All the feelings that Sylvia Plath has: angry, lonely, frustrated. Angry: Sylvia Plath was very angry because she didn’t want to see her dad, but deep down she missed him very much, one of her quotations was, ” Daddy I have had to kill you, you died before I had time.” This means that she…
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Controlled Assessment – Shakespeare and the Literary Heritage
There were some points of clear insight in this essay, and you’ve made some strong improvement in the structure of your essays, where you organise the information into paragraphs and keep to one idea for each one. To develop your work further: Provide a much wider range of quotations to support every point you make…
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Of Mice and Men: Almost everything you need to know about the importance of characters in OMAM can be seen through, 1. How they look 2. What people say about them?
1. How they look? George looks like a small but very smart and sophisticated man and has all the plans and brains. Lenny looks like a tall and strong man, but he doesn’t have any brains, he’s not very smart and he is very shy and lost. Every time when he has pet like a…
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Three key things which I need to use before the controlled assessment
Quotations from the book, different types of languages they use and express on themselves and others and describing or explaining what each quotations or feelings mean and linking it back to the question.
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Practice Writing: Select one of three following concepts: Fate
In the book Touching the void, there are two characters called Joe and Simon who go on an dangerous but exciting adventure towards the top of the mountain Siula tarnde. They have been climbing half way up the mountain for at least 5 days and they both were starving and thirsty and they both were…
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