Year 8 English

Exam preparation

hall — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:16:27 +0000

Practise writing a letter of complaint with this amazing online activity.

Complaint

Magic and Mutation unit overview

hall — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:29:13 +0000

For details on what we are doing and the questions we are asking, have a look at our planner.

magic-and-mutation-planner

Magic and Mutation review task

hall — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:25:36 +0000

film review task

Ms Hall’s class has the first review due on Monday 3/11 and the second one due on Friday 7/11.

superstitions and beliefs about the albatross

hall — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:39:11 +0000

Read the articles on the following links and make a comment in response to the question below.

superstitions of the sea

albatross around one’s neck

The sailors tell the mariner it is a bad thing that he killed the albatross, “Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,/ that made the breeze to blow!” but also that it was a good thing, “‘Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,/ that bring the fog and mist.” Using the information in the two articles you have read, do you think it was a good thing or a bad thing for the mariner to kill the albatross? Write your comment in a structured paragraph.

Ocean Quotations

tmarch — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:44:50 +0000

Choose one of the following quotations and write a comment explaining what it means to you.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.
~e.e. cummings

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. ~H.M. Tomlinson

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country. ~Author Unknown

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad

Praise the sea; on shore remain. ~John Florio

The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies

And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
~Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~William Hazlitt

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~George Herbert