On tuesday we saw a powerpoint presentation that showed us how to plan an essay properly, by writing notes about the piece of work you are writing about, and how to respond to an essay question.

Thursday 1st October

Today we went into further detail on 'the flea' by John Donne. We talked about how Donne uses different rhyming scemes and how he uses a mix of iambic tetametre and iambic pentametre. We also talked about how he uses religious carpe diem in 'the flea'.

Wednesday 30th September

In todays lesson we annotated the rest of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" and talked about what the last stanza meant, Mr Sharpe had found a poem that answers to Andrew Marvells "To His Coy Mistress" in the womens point of view seen as throughout his she doesn't get a chance to reply. We also started to take a look at the first stanza in "The Flea" by John Donne and took notes on the form.

Tuesday 29th

Today in english we analysed the rest of the poem To his coy mistress.

We learnt that in the second stanza of the poem the tone changes from being romantic to a less romantic and grim tone. The poet does this by describing her as his "vegetable love " which describes there slowly growing love to then quoting "then worms shall try that long preserved virginity" which shows all he's interested in is sex and if she doesn't honour him the worms shall take her virginity.

Mr Sharpe also gave us texual analysis homework on the poem The flea which has to be in for Monday the 5th of October.

28th september

In todays lesson we got our critical essay back on Sonnet 73 with feedback and the marking scheme. We looked over To His Coy Mistress and annotated poem and wrote ideas that we got from it.

In yesterdays lesson we marked our answers to the questions Mr Sharpe had prepared for us. We did this by comparing our answers to the marking scheme for " To His Coy Mistress."

Thursday 24th September

Today we learned about writing essays. We learned by writing essays. Mr sharpe is wonderful but his pens don't work.
Our no-homework claus is now used up.
RA