The Purpose of this blog

Your task on this blog is to write a brief summary of what we learned in class today. Include enough detail so that someone who was ill or missed the class can catch up with what they missed. Over the course of the term, these 'class scribe' posts will grow to be a guide for the course, written by students for students.

With each post ask yourself the following questions:
1) Is this good enough for our guide?
2) Will your post enable someone who wasnt here to catch up?
3) Would a graphic/video/link help to illustrate what we have learned?


Tuesday, 13 September 2011

First Lesson on Wuthering Heights and Roman's Return

After a mix up with the timetables, I, Roman, was transferred to another class. But I am back so don't worry.
Today we had our first lesson with Mr Sadgrove. We began it by discussing the course, including the exam structure and the way that we would be handling the coursework. After a few questions regarding this matter, we began the lesson.

We were told that we would be doing McBeth with Mr Chatterley and Wuthering Heights with Mr Sadgrove.

We began the lesson with Mr Sadgrove making sure that we had all read the book by asking certain questions to test our knowledge of the Heights. After this, a few of us were asked what 'Wuthering Heights' was about, in refrence to the overall theme; the most common answer being that it was a "tragic love story"

Sir went on to show us a song by Kate Bush which was about Wuthering Heights asking us to observe the setting in which her music video was in and the way that she acts. We were asked what the song meant and who's point of view it showed.
The class came to the conclusion that the song focused on the lost soul of Catherine Earnshaw who is haunting Heathcliff and wants to go back to him after dying.

After the song we were given a list of blurbs which we all read as a class and described what impressions the independant blurbs gave us of what kind of novel Wuthering Heights would be and how this differs from what we know and our own interpretation of the novel. Following this, we were asked to write our own blurb which was more inclined to the gothic nature of Wuthering Heights.

Homework:
- Read the poems by Emily Bronte and annotate/make notes in your book about them and how they may link to Wuthering Heights focusing on:

- How do these extracts relate to the idea of gothic?
- What links can we draw between the poetry and Wuthering Heights?
- Anything else interesting about the poems.
The annotations/notes must be at least one page in length.
- Use the words within Bronte's poems to rewrite a poem from a diffrent characters point of view. e.g. Hareton
- Try to make it ambigious as the class must guess who your poem is about.

1 comment:

  1. A x 3 Above Aid All x2 And x 5

    Anticipate Art At Bear Bed Billows

    Brave x 2 Brings x 5 But By x 2 Cold x 2

    Come Comforter Darker Darkness

    Dead Deaths Deep Deepen Despair

    Destiny Dies Doleful Dreary Dying Earth

    Elate Eyes Fall Far x 2 Fate

    Forgot Friend From Gaze Given Glad

    Gloom Go Grave x2 Guide Haply Have

    Hear Hope How I x 4 If

    Imaginary In x 5 Is x 3 It Joy

    Last Lives Love x2 May Me x6 Misery

    More x2 My x 6 Nay Never x2 No x 6

    Not Of x2 On Only x2 Piled Power

    Present Rave Remembrance Removed

    Renewed Rest x2 Rewarding Sail

    Scornfully Sea See Seems Severed

    Shadows Should Sighing Sighs Sleep x 6

    Smile Snow So Soothe Soul x2

    Soundest Spirit Strength x 2 Strong

    Surround Sustained Swells Tear That

    The x 10 Thee x 3 Their They x 2 Thy

    Times To x 13 Unawed Unjust Wakening

    Wave x2 Wearing When Wilder Will

    With x2


    These are the words that you make the poem with

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