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THE LABORATORY HOME LEARNING
laboratory-powerpoint with explanation
Activity:
1) Make a powerpoint on the three poems we have looked at around the theme of relationships:
Anne Hathaway (Duffy)
Sonnet 130 (Shakespeare)
The Laboratory (Browning)
Try to include comments on the content, language and structure of each poem. What do they have in common and what do they do/say differently?
2) Which is your favourite of these [...]
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Monday 12th Jan: inferences
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no [...]
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Week beginning 8th Dec!
Reviewing your learning
1. Mice and Men
How is Slim described when we meet him?
Link to images if you can fin them!
2. Hitcher
Write a diary entry for the insane driver!
3. My first Sonne
What did you think to this poem?
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Week three
Some research questions:
1) What is a femme fatale?
2) What is alfalfa?
3) How do you imagine each of these characters will cause trouble in the book:
Curley
Curley’s wife
The boss
George
Lennie
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Home Learning 2: Mice and Sisyphus
These 6 questions are aimed at reviewing our work in lessons, to help our memory.
Of Mice and Men
1) In your own words, describe the opening scene of Of Mice and Men - what kind of place do Lennie and George walk into?
2) Lennie is compared with a bear and a coyote. What [...]
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Home Learning v2
What are the three most important things you have learnt about John Steinbeck today?
What else would you like to know?
Add a hyperlink to a picture of Salinas, California to your comments.
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