We have just finished this book. The rest I'm putting in spoilers because it contains stuff about the ending:We're reading a :censored:ty book called 'Stone Cold' at the moment.
E28We're reading a :censored:ty book called 'Stone Cold' at the moment.
And in Yr7 I had to watch an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet where everyone looked like a pimp and drove riced cars and had shootouts at petrol stations but talked like they were from Shakespeare's time.
We have just finished this book. The rest I'm putting in spoilers because it contains stuff about the ending:
I had to watch that last year. It sucked really badly.
PatrickI just got an English project assigned that's due next Friday. We have to memorize 20-30 lines from Much Ado About Nothing and present it in front of the class.
PatrickI just got an English project assigned that's due next Friday. We have to memorize 20-30 lines from Much Ado About Nothing and present it in front of the class.
It's called Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, and it is an excellent adaptation of the play. Believe me, I know - I've taught it before, and a lot of students respond very positively to it. Unlike Ten Things I Hate About You (which is an adaptaion of The Taming of the Shrew), Luhrman's film is written almost entirely in iambic pentameter, and it really does give you a sense of how Shakespeare is supposed to be performed.And in Yr7 I had to watch an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet where everyone looked like a pimp and drove riced cars and had shootouts at petrol stations but talked like they were from Shakespeare's time.
It's called Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, and it is an excellent adaptation of the play. Believe me, I know - I've taught it before, and a lot of students respond very positively to it. Unlike Ten Things I Hate About You (which is an adaptaion of The Taming of the Shrew), Luhrman's film is written almost entirely in iambic pentameter, and it really does give you a sense of how Shakespeare is supposed to be performed.
It's called Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, and it is an excellent adaptation of the play. Believe me, I know - I've taught it before, and a lot of students respond very positively to it. Unlike Ten Things I Hate About You (which is an adaptaion of The Taming of the Shrew), Luhrman's film is written almost entirely in iambic pentameter, and it really does give you a sense of how Shakespeare is supposed to be performed.
prisonermonkeysIt's called Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, and it is an excellent adaptation of the play. Believe me, I know - I've taught it before, and a lot of students respond very positively to it. Unlike Ten Things I Hate About You (which is an adaptaion of The Taming of the Shrew), Luhrman's film is written almost entirely in iambic pentameter, and it really does give you a sense of how Shakespeare is supposed to be performed.
Shakespeare was incredibly unconventional for his time, particularly in his comedies. Take, for example, The Taming of the Shrew - it is presented as a play within a play (which no other playwright did), and had a multi-layered plot as several suitors are forced to work together to find a husband for Katarina, but sabotage one another in their pursuit of Bianca.IMO all of shakespeare is pretty bad, the plots are simple,guessable and sometimes very strange.
Shakespeare is incredibly highly-regarded, simply because he lived four hundred years ago, and yet his works are still relevant today. Romeo and Juliet is particularly relevant to young people, because of the age of the protagonists and the themes within the story.I wish schools would stop acting as if Shakespeare was the be all and end all of english writing, he's not.
Really? Students here all hated it.
Dare I say it, but you probably weren't taught it properly. In order to fully understand Shakespeare, you need to both see it performed and read the text. Just doing one or the other isn't enough.I absolutely hated it. The only good thing about it was that I got to take an hour and a half nap.
Dare I say it, but you probably weren't taught it properly. In order to fully understand Shakespeare, you need to both see it performed and read the text. Just doing one or the other isn't enough.
Dare I say it, but you probably weren't taught it properly. In order to fully understand Shakespeare, you need to both see it performed and read the text. Just doing one or the other isn't enough.
I hated it to. Mind you, it probably was my teacher. No one really liked her and we didn't learn much, she just stuck on the DVD one lesson and told us to watch it...
We had a half decent teacher, she was kinda weird and that itself made us pay attention, she sometimes gave out exotic fruit to people who worked well??? but then she left to go travellling and the teacher we got instead (and who did romea and juliet)makes every lesson the same (read chapter then answer PEE questions on it (prisonermonkeys will get what that means.)) she also speaks in the worlds most monotonous voice. She isn't a bad teacher, if you could stay awake during her lessons you would get a good grade.
We had a half decent teacher, she was kinda weird and that itself made us pay attention, she sometimes gave out exotic fruit to people who worked well??? but then she left to go travellling and the teacher we got instead (and who did romea and juliet)makes every lesson the same (read chapter then answer PEE questions on it (prisonermonkeys will get what that means.)) she also speaks in the worlds most monotonous voice. She isn't a bad teacher, if you could stay awake during her lessons you would get a good grade.
As long as you're good at finding quotes then you should have no problem. Trust me. I was rubbish at first but then a I finally mastered it my work was getting level 7.Ugh. The PEE chain. Don't remind me.
As long as you're good at finding quotes then you should have no problem. Trust me. I was rubbish at first but then a I finally mastered it my work was getting level 7.
I know, I am only in Year 9 and I am in Top set for EnglishFinding quotes is ok, but level 7 is only a C at gcse. To do well at GCSE you need to master the art of over analysis, eg."The man went took his red car into the forest to do some woodcutting."
Analysis our teacher would do for that quote. The writer chose the man to have a red car to show his anger, and this is backed up by the fact that he goes woodcutting to possibly get away from his problems at home and take his anger out. The woodcutting also suggest that he lives in a rural area, and/or is poor since that he uses wood for fuel.
The above isn't an exajuration, that is pretty much what we are told to write. Most teachers have never thought that a writer might just write something, every word has to be deeply thought out with some deeper reason behind its existance.
CARCRASHI know, I am only in Year 9 and I am in Top set for English
It's my creative skills holding me back as well. When we are analysing something or writing a report on a book, I am one of the top in the class but when we have to do anything creative my levels drop right down.I fail in English. I'm good in the lessons, getting top grades throughout the year, but in our end of year tests I always flop. Usually it's a comprehension and a creative writing task, last year I got 67%.
Yeah, that's not English. English is about meaning - the meaning that you get from a text, and more importantly, how you get it. You need to be able to show your understanding of the text, particularly the theme of the text. Extapolation, insinuation and implication don't come into it.Finding quotes is ok, but level 7 is only a C at gcse. To do well at GCSE you need to master the art of over analysis, eg."The man went took his red car into the forest to do some woodcutting."
Analysis our teacher would do for that quote. The writer chose the man to have a red car to show his anger, and this is backed up by the fact that he goes woodcutting to possibly get away from his problems at home and take his anger out. The woodcutting also suggest that he lives in a rural area, and/or is poor since that he uses wood for fuel.
The above isn't an exajuration, that is pretty much what we are told to write. Most teachers have never thought that a writer might just write something, every word has to be deeply thought out with some deeper reason behind its existance.
I have no idea what PEE is. But I suspect it's similar (if not the same) as QTE - Quote, Technique, Effect. You find a quote in the text, name the technique used, and describe the effect on the audience. Though I personally think TQE would be a better way of arranging it.the teacher we got instead (and who did romea and juliet)makes every lesson the same (read chapter then answer PEE questions on it (prisonermonkeys will get what that means.))
Well, that's no way to teach ...we didn't learn much, she just stuck on the DVD one lesson and told us to watch it...
Yeah, that's not English. English is about meaning - the meaning that you get from a text, and more importantly, how you get it. You need to be able to show your understanding of the text, particularly the theme of the text. Extapolation, insinuation and implication don't come into it.
I have no idea what PEE is. But I suspect it's similar (if not the same) as QTE - Quote, Technique, Effect. You find a quote in the text, name the technique used, and describe the effect on the audience. Though I personally think TQE would be a better way of arranging it.
For example, I've been doing crime fiction with one of my classes of late. I found a short story by Jeffrey Deaver called Together that has a very clever use of the unreliable narrator.
The unreliable narrator is the technique. The quotes would be an extract of dialogue from the narrator, compared to dialogue from a secondary character. The effect is that this use of the unreliable narrator changes everything that has happened within the story, and we are forced to review the events in a new light. I literally went back and re-read the story as soon as I finished it, looking at all the clever set-ups that the author had scattered through the story.The story starts out with a man recounting his time with the woman he loved. He was an under-educated former Marine who struggled to find work once he was discharged. After a workplace accident, he met a young woman working at the hospital emergency room and started a relationship with her - but her powerful father didn't approve. The rest of the story is about their flight from him and his influence.
However, the twist ending reveals that they were not actually in a relationship at all. The narrator was dumped after two dates, at which point he started stalking the girl, and ultimately kidnapped her. When the FBI got involved and started closing in on him, he killed the girl and buried her body. He is now on death row and is about to be executed, and the story is a last-ditch effort by a priest to get him to reveal the location of the girl's body.