This task is an extension of our investigation into the nature of ambition. This is an opportunity to explore how unifying elements are employed across different texts by different authors that lead you to deeper insight into this very human drive.
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Exam Preparation: 1.1 Extended Written Texts
You should attempt the sample paper and then have a look at the excellence exemplar and answer rubric to evaluate your response. You are most welcome to give your practice papers to me to assess as well.
Ozymandias
Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert... near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its...
Exam Preparation: 1.3 Unfamiliar Texts
AS 90851: Show understanding of significant aspects of unfamiliar text(s) through close reading, using supporting evidence. 4 Credits. External
1.5 Formal Writing Assessment: Vaulting Ambition in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
This task is a culmination of our study of William Shakespeare’s Tragedy Macbeth. This is an opportunity to explore the techniques of language, structure and conventions of theatre that Shakespeare employed to convey his strongest themes
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow – Despair in Macbeth
Analysis of the language effects Shakespeare employs to reinforce the sense of despair Macbeth feels on learning of his wife’s death.
Weekly Outline – Term Two, Week Five
This week we’re back to working together online to read the play in each others’ company – reading aloud, and analysing what we hear. We’ll read the rest of Act III and then view the film.
Weekly Outline – Term Two, Week Four
This week we’re back to working together online to read the play in each others’ company – reading aloud, and analysing what we hear. We’ll read the rest of Act III and then view the film.
Weekly Outline – Term Two, Week Three
This week we’re back to working together online to read the play in each others’ company – reading aloud, and analysing what we hear. We’ll read the rest of Act II and then view the film.
Macbeth Act 2, Scene 2 – Is this A Dagger?
Is this a dagger which I see before me? This period’s work is to review the video explainer attached to this post and then complete a paragraph exploring the language Shakespeare uses to give us a deeper insight into Macbeth’s state of mind in Act 2, Scene I.