Pages 3 and 4

Calum
"Part-bird then, part-men, he suffered in the ineluctable predicament of necessary pain and death."
" 'There seems to be death in the air.' Calum shivered: he knew and feared death."
" 'I ken you do, Calum,' he said. 'And i ken too that, though you're simple, you're better than any one of them.' "

Neil
" 'What's the matter with me these days, Calum? he asked. Is it i'm getting too old? Am i frightened at something? It just comes over me. Sometimes i think it must be the war.' "
"To look after his brother, he had never got married, though once he had come very near it: that memory often revived to turn his heart melancholy."

Quotes on pages 7 and 8 - The Cone-Gatherers

Quotes on pages 7 and 8 - The Cone-Gatherers

Neil: "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 thiry-one, not a child of ten."

"We'll just have to leave it for the keeper. He'll kill it soon enough. It's not our business anyway."

"The cones!" In anger Neil snatched from his bag a fistful of cones and flung them viciously into the trees."

Calum: "Put it out of its pain, Neil."

"But as he touched the long ears, and felt them warm and pulsating with a life not his own, he realised he could not do the rabbit this peculiar kindness"

Duror: Not mentioned in these particular pages

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.

The day in Mr Sharpes class we learned all about conclusions.
we looked at lots of dfferent examples and were finding out advanced ways to end an essay

when writing a conclusion you should try to always have,

-clear refrence it is a conclusion
-sum up points
-a personal response
-answer the question-
- and finish with a warm fuzzy glow

also you can finish your conclusion with a quote which doesn't need to be explained, but the quote must fit in with the question being answered.

Finally updated with my apologies by Stephen Robertson

In this lesson we learned how to make the perfect introduction. We know thats we have to state the name of the author, name of the poem and the genre. We can also use a quote to start of the introduction and we can have a big themactic opening.

-overview of the text

-outline your argument

-catch the examiners attention

This is an intro you can use for most things...

The theme of X is one which X us all and X the human experience. Its rare that we take time to consider X. Yet this is precisely what Y does in his X and Y "Z".  

In todays lesson we talked about how we don't need to use PEEL in an essay, that we can link our paragraphs together using conjunctions e.g but,furthermore,ultimately.
Each paragraph will link back to the one before, this means that we don't always need to link back to the question but can link back to the paragraph. We also tried writing out the poems we have been over in class (to his coy mistress & the flea) without looking at them, this will help us in our exam in 31 weeks time!

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.