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Pride and Prejudice 2: observing eyes

2013-05-23T14:21:00.004+01:00

Number 2 in a series of analyses using the iPad app ShowMe to examine key ideas in Pride and Prejudice.

Here, Elizabeth is unaware that she is being observed by Darcy, who is discovering she is more interesting than he had first admitted to himself.

'Dogs'

2013-05-22T06:00:00.001+01:00

Another in the series of poems by candidates for the Junior Poetry Prize 2013. This is one by Nyla Jamieson (I form):

Dogs

The old dog, upon hearing me come,

Slowly gets to its feet to greet me.

It drags its paws as if they are bricks or

Disobedient children.

The young dog meanwhile, springs to its feet.

Yapping loudly, it rushes over,

Its tail a blur showing the pup's joy.

Like a lightning bolt it is here at my feet.

"Sit", I command. The young dog ignores.

The old dog sits down immediately;

It gazes at me and waits for orders,

Like a slave waiting on its master.

As I watch my two dogs together,

They treat each other with strong respect.

The pup runs rings around its fellow,

Like a sheepdog around a lame ewe.

And yet, it doesn't take advantage

Of its elder's weakness.

I pat my two very different dogs,

Then go inside thinking of their friendship.

Pride and Prejudice 1: quick judgments.

2013-05-21T16:35:00.000+01:00

Number 1 in a series of analyses using the iPad app ShowMe to examine key ideas in Pride and Prejudice.

This looks at the way people are immediately and hungrily judged in this society. Here, Bingley and Darcy arrive on the scene for the first time.

The Old Memory

2013-05-20T09:36:00.001+01:00

Another entry for the recent Junior Poetry Prize. This is by Catherine Butt from Primary (who was awarded a Junior Scholarship last week):

The Old Memory

The rain attacked the window furiously

the day she left

It was a Saturday

A day usually full to the brim

With happiness, maybe sunshine.

But not that day:

Nurses ran back and forth

Their sad faces digging a hole in my chest,

Deeper and deeper

Filling it with tears.

Doctors screamed upsetting words

That deafened me,

Filling my ears with painful sounds

That made me want to

Curl up and disappear.

She lay in the vibrant cot

Slipping in and out of consciousness.

Time was running out,

It was nearly time for her to go.

She passed so quietly

that when it was over

it didn't seem right

That she was gone from our lives.

She may have been old,

She may have been deaf

But she broke our family chain

With her untimely death.

'Macbeth' quotation auto-test

2013-05-16T14:54:00.000+01:00

For pupils preparing Macbeth for their exams, here is a quotation auto-test (below, or direct link here). There are 20 quotations, and as each slide comes up you can think who said the words, in what context, and what wider importance they might have, before an 'answer' appears on the next slide. The idea here is primarily to make you think. Give yourself marks...

For lots more Macbeth revision resources, click here.