Chapter 1 - Enders Game Tuesday 17/5

1. Review Sci Fi Your Life
2.Answer Chapter 1 questions
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How does learning that this book was first published in the 1980's effect your perception of it?

Look at the first chapter and describe the style and sophistication of the language used.


HW: READ!!

Researching the Science Fiction Genre

Science Fiction Genre

Research Assignment

1.    Origins

Trace the development of the sci-fi genre. Explain where the genre came from. What did it grow from? Consider the role of other genres which had a direct or indirect influence on the development of sci-fi? Examples to consider include: westerns, horror, the heroes’ journey, other? (100words)

2.    

    Categories (500 words)

Science fiction can be broken up into a number of sub-categories. Identify and explain the various sub-categories and the features which make each distinguishable. Give examples of texts you are familiar with which may represent these sub-categories.

3.  

           Conventions (200 words)

Explain in detail the conventions of the science fiction genre. The conventions should also include those frequently borrowed from other genres ie the heroic journey, horror, etc.

Year 9A4 Bring Your Books to Class Monday

I'm away Monday morning getting the final check up on my surgically repaired knee. You will have the period to read Ender's Game. BRING YOUR BOOK!

NAPLAN Writing Prompt

1. You have the class to formulate a response to this prompt. 
2. When you are finished you are going to use the marking criteria below to look at a classmates writing for HW. 
3. You need to copy the marking criteria below and make a new post on your blog scoring you classmate's work. 
4. You need to make sure you have the web address for their blog.

Shakespeare Monologue Work Friday 18/3 - Tuesday 22/3

As you have already figured out (I hope), I'm away today.

You need to hand in your speeches to the teacher taking my class who will then put those speeches in my pigeon hole.

I won't be here Monday and Tuesday of next week either. (I know you are all so sad about that.) As a result your homework for the next 3 days of school is to simply practice your speech. I'm expecting to be blown away by how good they are.

In class over those next three day you will be preparing for your unit test in week 9 by looking closely at 3 Shakespeare monologues.

The Merchant of Venice: Act IV sc i - Portia
Othello Act I sc iii - Iago
Henry V 'once more unto the breach'

Your work:

• Create a post for each speech.
• Copy the speech and the questions into your post.
• Highlight the important techniques and answer the questions in your own post.
• When you have finished all the work for the speech - Publish it.

I'll be keeping up to date with all your work through your blogs. If you slack off in class I'll know immediately. 

If you have any questions, feel free to email me.

Mr. Cav

Henry V 'once more unto the breach'

1. Find and Highlight where these techniques are used:

• repetition
• inclusive language
• alliteration
• metaphor

2. Answer the following Questions (use quotes where applicable):

• What characteristics does King Henry say are best for men in times of PEACE?
• What should men be like in war?
• What does Henry say about the English and their ancestors?
• What does he mean when he says 'Be copy now to men of grosser blood.'?
• What is Henry saying you have to become in order to be successful in war?

KING HARRY:
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility,
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger.
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon, let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English,
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof,
Fathers that like so many Alexanders
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you called fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding- which I doubt not,
For there is none of you so mean and base
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot.
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
By William Shakespeare.

Othello (Act I sc iii) - Iago

Summary: In this section of the play, the villain Iago is motivating Rodrigo to act upon his feelings for Desdemona and even though she is committed to Othello ('the Moor'). Iago wants to take down Othello without actually doing it himself.


Highlight where the following persuasive techniques are used:

• repetition
• alliteration
• extended metaphor

Answer the following questions using quotes where applicable:

• What extended metaphor is used in this speech? Is this metaphor positive or negative towards women? Explain.
• How does the metaphor related to Rodrigo becoming more proactive in his pursuit of Desdemona?
• How does Othello characterise Othello ('the moor')?
• How does Iago describe Rodrigo being passive? What will he do to himself if he doesn't act?

IAGO

It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of
the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself! drown
cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy
friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with
cables of perdurable toughness; I could never
better stead thee than now. Put money in thy
purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with
an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse. It
cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her
love to the Moor,-- put money in thy purse,--nor he
his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou
shalt see an answerable sequestration:--put but
money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in
their wills: fill thy purse with money:--the food
that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be
to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must
change for youth: when she is sated with his body,
she will find the error of her choice: she must
have change, she must: therefore put money in thy
purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a
more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money
thou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt
an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not
too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou
shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of
drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek
thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than
to be drowned and go without her.