Welcome to Week 2 of remote learning.
This week, I’ll be posting all three of your lessons in this blogpost, with clear gaps between each lesson so you can find your starting point easily.
Lesson 1:
The first two lessons are focused on a popular theme in the early novel: the castaway on a distant island.
Both Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Gulliver’s Travels (1726) involve characters who find themselves washed up in a strange place, and this theme continues to fascinate readers to this day.
Here are tasks for lesson 1:
1) Watch this introductory video which starts with a recap on last week’s work and then explains today’s main task. (Feel free to speed me up to 1.2x!)
2) Have a go at this recap quiz.
3) Read the extracts below to give you some inspiration.
a) From Robinson Crusoe:
b) From Gulliver’s Travels (click the link to download a copy) - You can just read the first 3 paragraphs if you find it difficult:
c) From Michael Collins’s autobiography, Carrying the Fire. In this extract, Collins is orbiting the moon on his own as his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, are on the lunar surface.
4) Spend the rest of this lesson brainstorming ideas and planning for your own piece of descriptive writing. The task is below:
That's the end of Lesson 1. Keep scrolling down for Lesson 2.
Lesson 2:
TASK
Write your short descriptive piece in which you find yourself in a strange place. See the task below. Finish planning if you need to before you start.
This is only a writing exercise. It’s not an assessment, but a bit of writing practice. So, limit your time to 25-30 minutes for this task and don't write more than a side of A4.
Try to use the following descriptive techniques:
- a simile
- pathetic fallacy or personification
- a congeries (a long list of descriptive details)
I will put up an assignment on Teams so that you can share your work with your teacher.
If you have any time left, have a look at these videos that introduce the work of our next author, Charles Dickens:
Why You Should Read Charles Dickens (TED-Ed)
Literature: Charles Dickens (School of Life)
As always, if you need any help, get in touch with either myself or your regular teacher. Good luck!
Mr M
Lesson 3:
So, we’ve sampled extracts from some of the earliest novels. Now, we’ll skip ahead by a century or so and get to grips with the most popular Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens.
We’ll be using lessons from Oak National Academy to introduce you to Dickens’s novel, Oliver Twist. Hopefully, after you’ve read some extracts from the opening sections of the book, you’ll consider reading the whole thing for yourself!
Make sure you take notes, pause at the right times and complete all of the tasks in this video lesson by Mr Johnston at Oak National Academy.
Click here to go to the lesson.
When you’ve finished, take a photo or two to submit next week.
Optional extension tasks:
You might have seen the first two videos about Dickens here, but I’ve added a few others resources as well:
Why You Should Read Charles Dickens (TED-Ed)
Literature: Charles Dickens (School of Life)
The Life of Charles Dickens (BBC)
Six Things Charles Dickens Gave the Modern World (BBC – article)
Charles Dickens’s London, with Simon Callow (The Guardian)
The Charles Dickens Song (in the style of The Smiths) (Horrible Histories)
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