Neil Quotes Pages 5&6

"Alone Neil would have been in trouble; he was as dependant on his brother as if he was blind."

"Neil had said little in reply, but had faced up to the gun raised once or twice to emphasise threats."

As he knelt, sobbing in his quandary, the rabbit's squeals brought Neil rushing back. 'Are you daft right enough?' shouted Neil, dragging him to his feet. His voice, with it's anger, sounded forlon amidst the tall dark trees, 'Didn't you promise to leave them alone?' 'It's just one Neil. It's legs are broken.' 'And what if they are? Are you such a child you're going to cry because a rabbit's legs are broken in a snare? Will you never grow up, Calum? You're a man of thirty-one, not a child of ten.' "

Thursday 28th October

In english today we read the rest of chapter 1 from 'the cone gathers'. From what we read that period we found out what the brothers, Neil and Callum, look like. We found out that Callum had a humpback but he has a beautiful face. Neil is tall and thin with grey hair. We aslo wrote down some valuable quotes from the first chapter that we will be able to use in our essays that we will be doing on this book.

TUESDAY, 22nd SEPTEMBER

Today in English we looked at the different types of questions that will be in the Higher exam paper. They are Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation.
Understanding - WHAT is the writer saying ?
Analysis - HOW is the writer saying it ?
Evaluating - HOW WELL is the writer saying it ?

Class Updates

Good work with the ultra-speedy update NB!

Just to be clear - crackers and cheese = a quotation sandwich! Use the POINT as first cracker, EVIDENCE and EXPLANATION as the delicious cheese, and the LINK back to show you are answering the question effective.

The carabiner (introduction) and string (ideas) are all about structure. Look at the 3 central points - a carabiner is a triangle. So think about 3 main things for an introduction - name the text, the author and the genre. Now see the screw-gate bit. To strengthen the lock, you give it 3 turns. To strengthen your intro, you do a 3 sentence summary of the text.

Now, you've got all your loose string, which represents your ideas. You use a looping sentence to join all your string to your carabiner, (or your introduction to your essay.) This is the bit where you outline what you are going to show, and how you are going to show it.

Finally, tie a knot in the string at the end. That's your conclusion. Tie off all the loose ends, and don't add in any new information.

Voila. Done.

18th September 2009

In todays english class we learned about,
P - Point
E - Evidence
E - Explain
L - Link
We also defined the significance of all exam techniques using crackers and cheese. We also used a caribena and some string to help us understand about the linking sentences (Looping Sentences) and about each part of every paragraph.

Thursday's Lesson - 17/9/9

Today we talked about Sonnet 73 and we looked at siblance and why it is used in the line.
"Death's second self that seals up all in rest"
we looked at how each metaphor is developed from each stanza and why it ends in a couplet.

Monday, 14th September

Today's lesson was intended to get us to teach one another all about the poems we researched last week. Ross and Alesha won the competition and we all got stars.

Thy' Loaf O' Bread.

Thy’ Loaf O’ Bread.

Oh bread oh bread oh ye’ bread,
How lovely ye’ may be.
For now you are fresh,
For tomorrow you may be stale.

That male, oh how he kneaded you.
You are my yeast,
You make me rise.
If I get you it will be the ultimate prize.

I could be the filling in your sandwich,
When I’m with you, I feel rich.
For you, I would take an oath,
For you, are my daily loaf

S.R, N.E, L.C, S.B, K.B.

Carpe Diem. NB & LMc

Oh ye rosebud
so beautiful and moist
As your roots tangle amongst others
on to you mine body foist.

Thee cannot await your smell
now you are a beautiful bluebell
We must hurry before autumn arrives
we have to do it before the suns arrise.

As i take your hand
in holy matrimony
the doves all sing
in perfect harmony.

Oh ye bluebell
once beautiful and moist
i await you once more
for now i cant foist.

For now thee will party
and try to waste time
for when i reach heaven
you will be mine.

carpe diem poetry by tony and brad

A snake can take thy beauty but so can mine
so like the noughts let us intertwine
thy poison travels through us and will kill us before dawn
my vegetables are fully grown but will be dead before morn

the burrow of the snake is lost to him
but thee deny him access from the well where he drinks the water
and the ever rusting challis