Friday 6th November

Good Friday afternoon!

Task One:

Please write up the comparative paragraph from the last lesson. You need to email it to me. Aim to have a focussed comparative topic sentence and include examples from the poems (aim to think about patterns) asnd explore them linguistically and comment on their literary meaning - all the time keeping to the point you made in your opening sentence.

In Monday's lesson we will look at a range of examples and see how we can improve them so that they fit the criteria for a top mark! This will be done anonymously!

We will also explore how to write an opening paragraph in which you set up your thesis / argumment. Can be trickier than it seems!

Task Two:

Hamlet and Isolation - read the extract from Act 2 Scene 2 and complete the framework attached in as much detail as you can.

Act 2 Scene 2 Extract

The pictures below might help you with one of the key images from the section.

Task Three Extension work:

Some wider reading for Hamlet -

Hamlet's Melancholy

Yorick


Please make notes and think about how it could support ideas about death and isolation.

OR read and make notes on the Paris Review interview with Philip Larkin. Aim to comment on his ideas about language
Larkin Interview in The Paris Review This will be brilliant reading for anyone who will be writing about Larkin as he discussed his use of poetic form. This was set in a previous lesson but some of you might have missed it.