Frankenstein Update

Hi all,

Firstly, sorry it's taken me so long to post this, and also sorry I couldn't be there on Friday for your lesson. I had a Head of English meeting thing that I was required to go to, but Mr Northfield sent back a good report of the way you'd worked and conducted yourself, so well done for that.

We are now at a stage where you shuold be ready to write your Frankenstein coursework, and we will dedicate the first two lessons of this week to this purpose. At this point, we'll review how you are getting on, and make a decision about how much more time you'll need. Anyway, you are allowed to have all your notes and full access to the text, so it should just be a matter of putting into action all the learning that we have completed over the last few weeks.

The way to succeed in this essay is to be very aware of the success criteria as covered in class. Remember also to follow your targets from the Inspector Calls work and transfer the skill over to this essay. If you want to have a look at the precise marking criteria, they are on pages 51 and 52 of the booklet here: http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/pdf/AQA-3702-W-SP-11.PDF . It's the Prose Study criteria - don't let yourself get confused by all the language here though - if you do what we have looked at in class then you'll be fine.

So, you need to come to lesson on Monday prepared to write and I'm looking forward to seeing what you achieve!

See you then and keep up the general levels of excellence shown by 10X4!

Mr Boulter

Well done!

Hi everyone,

Firstly, a huge well-done for the quality and success of your final drafts for the AIC essay - I really enjoyed reading them and it was great to see so many people acting on the targets that you've been set. I hope it's clear to you that the harder you work on these essays, the better you are going to do - it's this factor which influences your success most of all, rather than whether you think you are 'good at English' or not!

OK - just to confirm your homework. I'd like you to read or re-read chapter 23 of the novel, and note down key quotations which we could use for the essay. Remember that we are looking for quotations which either promote or detract sympathy from the monster in the readers' eyes. Remember also that lots of us have targets asking us to think about how the same pieces of writing could be interpreted differently by different readers. Therefore, think about this when selecting your quotations.

5 quotations from everybody please. If you want to push yourself, do the same for another chapter of your choice -one which you think is important in influencing the readers' feelings towards the character.

Ta-ra,

Mr Boulter

Snow Work

Hello everyone,

Well I hope you lot are enjoying your extended Xmas break, but I also hope that we'll be able to get on with things from Monday! If it turns out that there is any further disruption, and you have completed the work from the previous post, then the best thing for you to do is this:

- look at the novel again and find some more sections that will be useful to answer our coursework question
-pick out the key quotations that you want to use, and plan what you are going to say about each

Remember that our title is: How does Mary Shelley manipulate the reader's feelings for the monster?

So, you are looking for events and passages which provoke sympathy, fear etc in the reader, I would suggest that Chapter 23 is a good place to start looking.

Anyway, it looks at the moment as though there'll be an early start on Monday so we will miss our period 1 lesson, but I'll see you for a lesson, at last, on Wednesday.

Mr Boulter

ps - click on the image here for a closer look - amazing!

pps- what's the motto of the Eskimo lottery?

You've got to be Innuit to Win-u-it!