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Touching The Void Summary, Chapter 1 and 2. – Y11

Chapter 1 – Beneath The Mountain Lakes The narrator, and author of the book Joe Simpson, and his friend Simon are at the bottom of the mountain, looking around the area, trying to get a general idea of the types… Continue Reading →

Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1- 2

Scene 1 – The gravediggers are talking amongst themselves, whether Ophelia killed herself, or whether she was killed, by drowning, or if she should get a Christian burial, if she killed herself. The gravediggers sing amongst themselves. As the funeral… Continue Reading →

Hamlet Act 4 Scene 1- 7 Summary – Y11

Scene 1 – The king asks the queen where hamlet was, and she tells the king that hamlet killed Polonius. Gertrude calls Hamlet crazy, and the kind decides to punish him, by sending him to England. Scene 2 – Rosencrantz… Continue Reading →

Anti-Hero Reading Project Y11: Book 3

Title: Dexter, Darkly Dreaming Author/Director: Jeff Lindsay Text Type:  Fiction Information on Genre, Style and Theme: The first book of the series, ‘Dexter, Darkly Dreaming’ is a fictional story, from the eyes of a forensics officer, Dexter Morgan. The book starts with Dexter… Continue Reading →

Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 – 4 Summary – Y11

Scene 1 – rosencrantz and guildenstern tell Claudius there is nothing wrong with hamlet Scene 2 – Hamlet tells the actors to perform a play, re enacting the death of his father , when Claudius killed him with the poison… Continue Reading →

Hamlet Act 2 Scene 1- 2 Summary Y11

Act 2, Scene 1. Polonius, reynaldo to spy on his son laertes, in Paris. Othelia tells her father, polonius, that she was scared of hamlet, as he came in to her private room, half undressed. Polinius talks to hamlet, and… Continue Reading →

Hamlet Act 1 Scene I – 5 Summary – Y11

Act 1 Scene 1- Barnado and Francisco change guard watch at the opening scene. They talk about Horatio who, is said to look like the recently dead king, appearing in the hours before dawn. Scene 2- The king speaks to… Continue Reading →

Futility – Y11

1- Define words: Rouse:  To bring something out of sleep. Make angry, or excited Fatuous: Something that is foolish, or pointless 2- Simplified: 3- Language Effects: Personifications, “Think how it wakes the seed”, this personifies the seed and the sun,… Continue Reading →

Homework: Riffing on Style – Y11

Dystopian I woke up, to the sound of this rusty old alarm, as per usual, in this tin shed, I call  home. I proceeded to get ready for school, like every other day in the year, to train to become… Continue Reading →

Belfast Confetti – Y11

1 – Define words: Fount of broken type: something that distributes a broken type Saracen: A combat vehicle used during the IRA attacks. Kremlin 2 mesh: A type of tank used during the IRA attacks. Makrolon face shields: A type… Continue Reading →

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