There's Snow Escaping Work

Y'all must be forlorn that school's closed today.

Cue the return of the blog:

Lesson Aim:

Finish the novel:

Summary of what happens: 

Tom continues to plot a ridiculously elaborate and adventurous escape. They do get Jim out but Tom gets shot by angry locals (who Tom himself informs to add to the excitement). 

Jim heroically looks after Tom until a doctor comes and then he is recaptured. The doctor sticks up for Jim who the locals want to whip or hang. 

When Tom feels better he reveals that Jim was free all the time anyway, because Miss Watson freed him in her will.


Now focus on these pages:


1- how Tom and Huck freed Jim, only for Tom to be shot and Jim recaptured (pages 347-9)2- how Tom reveals that Jim was already free anyway  (page 365)3- Chapter the Last


Consider "Chapter the Last" as an extract for coursework. There are a lot of aspects of escape in it- real escape, symbolic escape. Annotate these.

It also has Huck's narrative voice and dialogue to analyse and compare to Holden.  Compare it to the last chapter of "Catcher" in terms of theme and language (narrator, dialect, symbolism....)

Best thing you can do really is to find a couple of extracts you want to compare and start to notices similarities and differences in terms of theme and language.

On Friday we will be looking at an "A" grade coursework example
I am  going to ask you to list what the student does, so that you could start to build a structure for your own.

Writing Competition on theme of Adventure

http://web.aqa.org.uk/becreative/about.php

Writing Competition in Criticism, Fiction and Poetry

The Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University is pleased to announce our first annual writing awards. Our awards seek to recognise and reward emerging critical and creative talent. With categories in Criticism, Fiction and Poetry, these prestigious awards are open to any Year 12 student in the UK and we very much hope you will encourage your students to enter!

Prizes

£100 first prize and publication in Cake - a highly regarded literary magazine for new and established writers alike.

£50 second prize
£25 third prize

(second and third prize winners will also be published on the Lancaster University website)

Judges

Judges will consist of members of the Department of English and Creative Writing including:

Professor Terry Eagleton (criticism)

Dr Helen Farish, Professor Paul Farley, Professor Graham Mort, (poetry),

Jenn Ashworth, Dr George Green, Dr Zoe Lambert (prose)

Closing Date: 31 January 2013

For more information please email: lancasterwritingawards@lancaster.ac.uk or download anentry form.

Little Shirley Beans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyMKVLBqse4

To soundtrack your blogging!

Any significance to the lyrics?

Food Competition

http://www.chartwells.co.uk/write-stuff-competition-details.htm

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