The virtual hub of Mr Waugh's Year 8 Engish class
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The Romeo and Juliet Project
You must select 3 options from the following grid – you must all do the analytical essay, but can choose freely from the other options. The more granular detail: times, word counts etc, will be defined soon, but for the time being you should be thinking about which of the options best suits your way […]
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Romeo and Juliet – Some Consequence Yet Hanging in the Stars
In your blogs or books, explain Shakespeare’s intentions with the following lines. You will want to unpack the metaphor of the stars and the notion of directing Romeo’s ‘sail’ as well as explore the idea of fate and what Shakespeare is saying about Romeo’s future. What else has Shakespeare done so far that reinforces this […]
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Iambic Pentameter
In today’s first lesson we explored the notion of meter. We discovered that there is an underlying rhythm to a great deal of Shakespeare’s drama. A quick gallop around the room on our virtual Iambic horses lead us to discover that the “unstress/stress” pattern can be applied to the whole of the prologue to Romeo […]
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Shakespeare Study
Today we launched our study of William Shakespeare with a romp around the room on our iambic pentameter horses. What better way to begin Year 8 English than with the Bard himself. We are incredibly lucky to be able to walk the same streets as Shakespeare did and here at the London Nautical we don’t […]