STRENGHTS AND VIRTUES

What change has this exercise brought about in your perspective towards yourself and others??

                                   PROJECT:  THE ROME DAY
                             DATE:  14TH OCTOBER 2015

Students were asked to prepare an interactive presentation based on their research on various aspects of Roman lifestyle. The use of props, videos, images and handouts were encouraged to enhance quality of presentation.

The groups were as follows:

• Games: gladiators and chariot races, holidays, and entertainment (JOSEPH, ALETHEA, DAVINA) 

• Baths and bath rituals • Family life (ALEENA, SANEAH)

• Weddings, marriages, and divorce (AMY, HODA)

• Housing and food and mealtime customs for the various classes( SHREYA, SCHWETA, JEWELLYN)

• Education, funerals, and theatre (JANANI, DINA, NIRANJANA)

Focus was on the major factors affecting social class such as  heredity, property, wealth, citizenship, and freedom.

• Students: Please comment on how you would rate you experience with the overall flipped lesson.

• Audience: Please comment on the presentation. What you liked and suggestions on how it can be further developed. Feel free to copy paste the link onto your browser to view our flipped lesson.                                                                                                 http://ed.ted.com/on/1UMefA70  

                           

W. Wordsworth

"She was a Phantom of delight"

 

SHE was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament:
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;	5
Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay.	10
I saw her upon nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty;
A countenance in which did meet	15
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food,
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.	20
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death:
The reason firm, the temperate will,	25
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light.	30
You have already done a research in class on the historical, literary and biographical context. I would like all of you to share your research on this page. I is important that every single one of you contribute to this task. Please ensure that content is not repeated and there is a clarity on which context you are focusing on.

 

                                                 

                           EFFECTIVE QUESTIONING


How useful was the session?
What was the highlight of the session?
What is your key take-away from the session?
How have you applied effective questioning strategies in your lesson?

 

ALS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE

Donate or Drench???

What are your views? Do you think you have made the right choice?


 

WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

In his darkroom he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
The only light is red and softly glows,
as though this were a church and he
a priest preparing to intone a Mass.
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass.

He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays
beneath his hands which did not tremble then
though seem to now. Rural England. Home again
to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel,
to fields which don't explode beneath the feet
of running children in a nightmare heat.

Something is happening. A stranger's features
faintly start to twist before his eyes,
a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries
of this man's wife, how he sought approval
without words to do what someone must
and how the blood stained into foreign dust.

A hundred agonies in black-and-white
from which his editor will pick out five or six
for Sunday's supplement. The reader's eyeballs prick
with tears between bath and pre-lunch beers.
From aeroplane he stares impassively at where
he earns a living and they do not care.

 

By- Carol Ann Duffy

Write your analysis on the poem above keeping in mind the FLIRT concept.

 

 

OTHELLO

 

 

Year 9 students, you have all had a different experience this year working on the Shakepseare unit. Share your experience on your learning.

•  What do you think of the plot and characters?
• What connections can you make to real life?
• How challenging was writing in Shakespearean language
• Why do you think it is important to study Shakespeare?
• Would you like to be part of the Othello play that will be performed in school? Yes/No? Why?
• Which character would you like to be? Why?
• Do you identify with any of the characters?