Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Julius Caesar was not the only leader to be assassinated……let’s research more assassinations!
assassinate: to murder, to kill a political leader or other public figure assassination: murder, killing of a political leader or other public figure by a sudden violent attack assassin: the killer of a political leader or public figure Research task You are working in a group of 3, your names are on the envelope you…
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‘Once’ by Moritz Gleitzmann – Initial research
Today I was impressed by the research carried out by members of our class. The questions you researched were the result of our discussion last week about what we already knew about the Second World War and the Holocaust and what we still needed to know. Contributions by Umayer, Sean and Sterling were particularly enlightening.…
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Extended reading project – Short Stories
Extended reading – Short Story Reading and Research project – 2 weeks How will we be working? You will work in pairs – to choose somebody to work with you need to be sure that you will both contribute and that you will enjoy working collaboratively. Good communication with each other will be…
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Homework
Please complete your comparison of Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl and Hey You Down There by Harold Rolseth and hand this in to Ms Wilson during your English lesson on Wednesday 24th October 2012. See previous posts for the links to copies of the stories.
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Lamb to the Slaughter – Roald Dahl
To find a copy of Lamb to the Slaughter go to: http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html You are now in the process of writing your comparison of the two stories. You want to explore what is similar, different and what features or ingredients of the stories you would like to comment on. We have agreed, in listening to the…
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Hey You Down There!
Thank you to Nehemiah for finding Hey You Down There on the internet for us. Here is the link: http://julie-cfahs.wikispaces.com/file/view/Hey+You+Down+There
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Short Story Unit – Homework for Monday 15th October
Short stories have an added attraction – you don’t have to spend a long time reading! So if you are one of these very busy people who claim you have no time to read, here is your next challenge. We have read Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter in class and at present we are…
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Hey You Down There!
We have started to read the next short story in our unit on short stories. We will go back to Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl once we have completed this current story, but as we read I would like to encourage you to look at any similarities you can find with Lamb to…
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