Friday 9th October

Today we took a break from focussing on our essays. Mr Sharpe let us design posters for the wall which had to be based on a quote from any of the poems we are studying (sonnet 73, to his coy mistress, the flea), we also designed our own illustrations to go with the quote.

in yesterday's lesson we we learned more on how to write an introduction to the poem that we will be focusing on,example:
the theme of x is one which x us all and x the human experience. It's rare that we take time to consider x . Yet this is precisely what y does in x and x ' z '.

Tuesday 6th October

Over the weekend the class were given questions on "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell for homework. On Monday's lesson as a class we marked our partner's answers and compared. We also learned how to gain a few extra marks and we were shown how much is expected for bigger marked questions.

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.