Romanticism Project

English Romanticism William Wordsworth: Kim, Tanmay, Shawn Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Mizuki, Da Ye, Rebecca William Blake: Eric, Jun Ho, Hyeong Jin Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron: Eric, Jun Ho, Hyeong Jin John Keats: Kim, Tanmay, Shawn J. M. W. Turner: Sunniva, Denise, Janani

American Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and [...]

Cinderella (Rebecca, Da Ye, and Mizuki)

See if you can view their Book Week video by clicking on this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/008cbt3s0cj46k8/CINDERELLA.mp4

 

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Summer Language coursework

Dear Year . . . 11s! ;^)

Just a reminder about your coursework for IGCSE English Language. Here is the requirement from the course guide:

Assignment 1: informative, analytical and/or argumentative. Assignment 2: imaginative, descriptive and/or narrative. Assignment 3: a response to a text or texts chosen by the Centre. The text(s) should contain facts, [...]

David Copperfield

(Mid-book entry.)

Inspired by Eric Wu and provoked by the recent drama based on Charles Dickens’ fat novel, David Copperfield, I decided to re-read it for the first time in many years. I was struck by how much the England of David Copperfield resembles the China of today. Here, for example, Copperfield’s aunt comes to [...]

Reading grows your brain

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/04/03/study-reading-for-pleasure-makes-your-brain-grow-literally/#.T3tdXCYzGi0.facebook

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Year 11s, don’t forget . . .

. . . to add your notes to the Gatsby wiki, here:

http://gatsbynotes.wikispaces.com/

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Third post: What did you learn about poetry this week?

Write it up before you forget everything! ;^)

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First 2 blog posts

Please write two (2) separate blog posts:

1. Describe yourself as a reader. Label this post with the ‘As a Reader’ category.

2. Describe yourself as a writer. Label this post with the ‘As a Writer’ category.

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Welcome to IGCSE English!

I am looking forward to this year at DCS, my first here after seven years at SSIS. I hope you are, too!

I hope that most of the writing you do in the course—apart from final assessments—will be posted on this blog, giving you the chance to practice writing and try out ideas in a [...]

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