2L+ENGLISH+2010

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2L English (Short Prep) Spend 15 minutes finding out about the author Raymond Briggs.
 * English Prep Monday 20 June 2011**

There is an audio interview with him here: http://www.archive.org/details/PanelBordersTheWorkOfRaymondBriggs

Watch this cartoon:
 * Cover lesson Tuesday 7 June 2011**

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It is an unusual piece of animation.

Write a review of the animation, explaining what you think it is about. Why the person made it, how it works, who it is for and whether you find it good to watch. Would you recommend it to anyone? Enter your work on the Wikispace aklgg as you did for prep.

Write a poem in the style of Mulga Bill's Bicycle using a different character and a different kind of vehicle and a different kind of setting. Write a rhyming poem, using the same kind of rhyming metre as used in MBB.
 * English Prep 23 May 2011**
 * Poem**
 * English Prep 19 May 2011**
 * Mulga Bill's Bicycle**
 * Learn the lines that have your initials next to them, one boy phases in as another phases out.**
 * English Prep 19 May 2011**
 * Mulga Bill's Bicycle**
 * Learn the lines that have your initials next to them, one boy phases in as another phases out.**

MULGA BILL'S BICYCLE by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson

’Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; FCM He turned away the good old horse that served him many days; FCM He dressed himself in cycling clothes, resplendent to be seen; FCM SE He hurried off to town and bought a shining new machine; FCM SE And as he wheeled it through the door, with air of lordly pride, SE AF The grinning shop assistant said, “Excuse me, can you ride?” SE AF

“See here, young man,” said Mulga Bill, “from Walgett to the sea, AF NF From Conroy’s Gap to Castlereagh, there’s none can ride like me. AF NF I’m good all round at everything as everybody knows, NF HGee Although I’m not the one to talk – I hate a man that blows. NF HGee But riding is my special gift, my chiefest, sole delight; HGee H Grindle Just ask a wild duck can it swim, a wildcat can it fight. HGee H Grindle There’s nothing clothed in hair or hide, or built of flesh or steel, H Grindle HH There’s nothing walks or jumps, or runs, on axle, hoof, or wheel, H Grindle HH But what I’ll sit, while hide will hold and girths and straps are tight: HH JH I’ll ride this here two-wheeled concern right straight away at sight.” HH JH

‘Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that sought his own abode, JH YH That perched above Dead Man’s Creek, beside the mountain road. JH YH He turned the cycle down the hill and mounted for the fray, YH CH But ‘ere he’d gone a dozen yards it bolted clean away. YH CH It left the track, and through the trees, just like a silver steak, CH RH It whistled down the awful slope towards the Dead Man’s Creek. CH RH

It shaved a stump by half an inch, it dodged a big white-box: RH WI The very wallaroos in fright went scrambling up the rocks, RH WI The wombats hiding in their caves dug deeper underground, WI EJ As Mulga Bill, as white as chalk, sat tight to every bound. WI EJ It struck a stone and gave a spring that cleared a fallen tree, EJ AK It raced beside a precipice as close as close could be; EJ AK And then as Mulga Bill let out one last despairing shriek AK FK It made a leap of twenty feet into the Dean Man’s Creek. AK FK

‘Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that slowly swam ashore: FK GL He said, "I’ve had some narrer shaves and lively rides before; FK GL I’ve rode a wild bull round a yard to win a five-pound bet, GL DL But this was the most awful ride that I’ve encountered yet. GL DL I’ll give that two-wheeled outlaw best; it’s shaken all my nerve DL IM To feel it whistle through the air and plunge and buck and swerve. DL IM It’s safe at rest in Dead Man’s Creek, we’ll leave it lying still; IM A horse’s back is good enough henceforth for Mulga Bill." IM

Here is another mad bicycle ride to get you in the mood! Don't try this at home.

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English Prep 16 May 2011 Exam Revision: See Wikispace **Think about the last novel you read and completed. Consider what the problem/solution and growth was. Look at this book or your current book and look at the structure of the sentences. Look for tension, pace. Look for characterisation, description, similes and metaphors. See when the paragraphs are made. Decide what the beginning, middle and end of the book were.**

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**English Prep Learn lists 11 and 12. For those of you who have lost your books here are the words. In the meantime look for your spelling books.**

**11** **Christmas** **Christ** **Christian** **christening** **Christopher** **Christine**

**chaos** **chaotic** **character** **chemist** **chromium** **chrysalis** **chrysanthemum**

**chord** **choral** **chorus** **choir** **orchestra**

**ache** **anchor** **architect** **echo** **scheme** **school** **scholarship** **stomach** **technical**

**12** **equally** **finally** **gradually** **naturally** **really** **usually**

**beautifully** **hopefully** **successfully** **truthfully** **wonderfully**

**definitely** **excitedly** **immediately** **noticeably** **sparsely**

**family** **particularly** **probably** **quietly** **truly** **voluntarily** **wholly**

**Spelling words 11** **Christmas**

**Maths Prep (for Mr T)** **P 13 and 14** **Q 1-6** **Q6 is tricky make a start in rough at the back of your classwork book.**

**English Prep Monday 14 March 2011** Learn spelling list 9 and 10. Complete Review of Rabbit Proof Fence (3/4-1 page)

**English Prep Thursday 10 March 2011** Learn the next two spelling lists 7 and 8. CORRECTION (UPDATED 10 MARCH 7:53PM) SPELLING LIST SHOULD BE LISTS 9 AND 10. Don't worry if there's any confusion we will sort it out next week.

Write a review of Rabbit Proof Fence in your English Books. Tell a little about the story, and why it was good.
 * English Prep Monday 7 March 2011**

Here are some guidelines:

Write the title of the movie **Paragraph 1** Include the following: name of the film, prominent stars of the film, basic setting (time and place), and type of film (comedy, adventure, drama, etc.) **Paragraph 2** Write a plot summary for the movie. Do not reveal the ending. Discuss at least 3 events cover the entire length of the movie, except the very end. **Paragraph 3** Discuss one aspect of filmmaking. You may choose from acting, location, photography, background music, or anything else you may think of. Be sure that you are specific and give examples from the movie. **Paragraph 4** Give your reaction to the film as well as your opinion on the quality of the film, also recommend who might like the film.

Rabbit Proof Fence Support Document

Make a list of 4 hardships (things which cause suffering) which Arthur Hobhouse experienced, and a list of 4 hardships Molly experienced.
 * English Prep Thursday 3 March 2011**

What affect do you think these hardships had on both Arthur and Molly? For example you might say that Molly's separation from her mother made her a more determined person, because she had to be determined to take herself and the other two girls home. ]

How much do you need to write? Perhaps two lists of hardships and two paragraphs, one for Arthur and one for Molly.

If it is not clear send me an email.


 * English Prep Thursday 24 February 2011**

CGP PP 12-13

Open the following sheet and save it on your computer in MY DOCUMENTS. Then answer the questions. In the end print the sheet.
 * English Class Work (Proverbs) Monday 7 February**

I would like to see some 'quality' work. Last time, I set an exercise like this many of you rushed it! Don't. :)

It might take a minute or so to download. Be patient. It works, I tried it!

[|Proverbs Sheet.doc]

Here are some more proverbs.

Adversity doesnt build character, it reveals it After a famine in the stall comes a famine in the hall After all is said and done, more is said than done After dark all cats are leopards After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box After the storm comes the calm Age has no friend but the wrinkles of the mind Age is a very high price to pay for maturity Agree, For The Law is Costly All are not cooks that walk with long knives All good things come to he who waits All good things must come to an end All in good time All is for the best in the best of the possible worlds All lay loads on a willing horse! All roads lead to Rome All sunshine makes a desert All that glisters is not gold All things are possible with god All things come to those who wait All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy Although the Sun May Shine, Leave Not Thy Cloak at Home An ant may well destroy a whole dam An apple a day keeps the doctor at bay An apple a day keeps the doctor away An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth An old fox is not easily snared An old Ox makes a straight furrow An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept Angry Men Make Themselves a Bed of Nettles Any port in a storm Anybody can make history Only a great man can write it Appearances are deceptive Art has no enemy but ignorance Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity As useful as a chocolate fireguard (or teapot) As wrinkled as an elephant's hide As you make your bed, so must you lie in it As you sow, so shall you reap Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer Ask no questions and hear no lies At the end of the game, the King and the pawn go back in the same box Bad news travels fast Barking dogs seldom bite Be first at the feast, and last at the fight Be just before you are generous Be kind to people on the way up, you may need them when you are on your way down Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes Beauty and Honesty Seldom Agree Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Beauty is only skin deep Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred Better an open enemy, than a false friend Better bend than break Better die with honor than live with shame Better do it than wish it done Better late than never Better one house spoiled than two Better safe than sorry Better to aim high and miss, than to aim low and reach target! Better to be alone than in bad company Better to be envied than pitied Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud Better to be safe than sorry Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly Better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt Birds of a feather flock together Bitter pills may have blessed effects Blessings Are Not Valued Until They Are Gone Blood is thicker than water Blue are the hills that are far away Boys will be boys Business before pleasure Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance Charity begins at home Children Have Wide Ears and Long Tongues Children should be seen and not heard Christmas comes but once a year Cleanliness is next to Godliness Clothes make a man Cold hands, warm heart Come out to play Common fame is seldom to blame Confidence is a plant of slow growth Constant dripping wears away the stone Count your blessings Cultivate money and you grow rich, Cultivate mind and you raise culture Curiosity killed the cat Curses, like chickens, come home to roost Cut your coat according to your cloth Danger can never be overcome without taking risks Death pays all debts Diamonds cut diamonds Different strokes for different folk Diligence is the mother of good fortune Discretion is the better part of valour Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow Distance lends enchantment to the view Distance makes the heart grow fonder Do as you would be done by Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped Do not praise yourself while going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a friends forehead Do not wear out your welcome Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you Don't count the days, make the days count! Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise Empty sacks will never stand upright Enough is as good as a feast Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief Every cloud has a silver lining Every Cook Praises His Own Broth Every cross has its inscriptions Every devil has not a cloven hoof


 * English Prep 3 February 2011**

Write an onomatopoeia poem and enter it onto aklgg.wikispaces.com.

Read to page 169 in Alone on a Wide Wide Sea


 * English Prep 13 December Scroll down to find it**


 * Poetry on Simile and Metaphor**

Read all the instructions first all the way through to the end.

Listen to Michael Jackson read his poem Planet Earth

Just play this one YouTube movie (wear your headphones):

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You can follow the lyrics below.

3. Read the lyrics below and read the notes. Take special note of what it says about metaphor and simile and read at the bottom what it says about them. Listen to the poem again if you like.

Planet Earth, my home, my place A capricious anomaly in the sea of space < capricious means inexplainable; anomaly means unexpected Planet Earth are you just Floating by, a cloud of dust < this is a metaphor , the earth isn't really just dust A minor globe, about to bust < neither is it really about to bust, but it helps to understand what the world is like A piece of metal bound to rust < or this. Not technically accurate, but poetically useful. A speck of matter in a mindless void A lonely spacship, a large asteroid

Cold as a rock without a hue <--- here is a simile  'cold as a rock' describes the cold Held together with a bit of glue <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Something tells me this isn't true <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">You are my sweetheart soft and blue <--- the earth is known as the blue planet because of the oxygen in the atmosphere <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Do you care, have you a part <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">In the deepest emotions of my own heart <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Tender with breezes caressing and whole <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Alive with music, haunting my soul. <--- he has experienced the music of the planet.

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">In my veins I've felt the mystery <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Of corridors of time, books of history <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Life songs of ages throbbing in my blood <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood <--- he has danced the same 'dance' as the planet <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Your misty clouds, your electric storm <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Were turbulent tempests in my own form <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">I've licked the salt, the bitter, the sweet <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Of every encounter, of passion, of heat <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Your riotous color, your fragrance, your taste <--- using all the senses! <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Have thrilled my senses beyond all haste <--- using all the senses! <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">In your beauty, I've known the how <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Of timeless bliss, this moment of now

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Planet Earth are you just <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Floating by, a cloud of dust <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">A minor globe, about to bust <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">A piece of metal bound to rust <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">A speck of matter in a mindless void <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">A lonely spacship, a large asteroid <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Cold as a rock without a hue <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Held together with a bit of glue <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Something tells me this isn't true <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">You are my sweetheart gentle and blue <--- he loves the earth <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Do you care, have you a part <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">In the deepest emotions of my own heart <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Tender with breezes caressing and whole <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Alive with music, haunting my soul. <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Planet Earth, gentle and blue <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">With all my heart, I love you

English Prep: Take a copy of the Dragon Book of Verse. Read through the poems and look for similes and metaphors. Find some examples of each. Decide what each simile or metaphor is doing. Why does the poet use them? How does the simile or metaphor make the poem better?

Find two examples of similes and two examples of metaphors. Your answer should look like this:

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Prep: Similes and Metaphors Monday 13 December

Similes

Page 93: The Prelude by William Wordsworth In this poem Wordsworth compares the trees with iron. "The trees tinkled like iron," because they were frozen and the branches hit one another like icicles. This is a very vivid image in the poem and creates a spooky atmosphere. I like the choice of words because it is not something I would have thought of, but helps me understand what it must have been like there.

Second Example

Metaphors

etc.

English exercises LINK: []


 * English Prep Thursday 9 December**

You need to write a poem using similes and metaphors. The poem should be about colour. Write it in your rough books.

//Q. How long does it have to be? A. I think no less than 16 lines.// //It needs to be good. Keep working on it for half an hour.//

Include such devices in your poem, but don't go overboard by using too many, unless this is the style of your poem.
 * A simile is a comparison.** It contains the words 'as' or 'like'. The frozen grass was like a sea of upward icicles.
 * A metaphor is when you say one thing is something else.** The lawn was a frozen sea of upward icicles.

Here is a famous Australian poem about colour. Read it to get some ideas. At the bottom there is a sound file so you can hear the poet reading the poem.




 * My Country by Dorothea McKellar**

The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded Lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens, Is running in your veins; Strong love of grey-blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skies - I know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of drought and flooding rains, I love her far horizons, I love her jewel sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me.

The tragic ring-barked forests Stark white beneath the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon. Green tangle of the brushes Where lithe lianas coil, An orchids deck the tree-tops And ferns the crimson soil.

Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When sick at heart around us We see the cattle die - But then the grey clouds gather And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country! Land of the Rainbow Gold, For flood and fire and famine, She pays us back threefold; Over the thirsty paddocks, Watch, after many days, The filmy veil of greenness That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country, A wilful, lavish land - All you who have not loved her, You will not understand - Though Earth holds many splendours, Wherever I may die, I know to what brown Country My homing thoughts will fly.

Sound file (You need Quicktime on your computer). This is just a sound file. media type="file" key="AN I Love a Sunburnt Country Dorothea McKellar.mov" width="180" height="180"

Go through the class play script and practise your lines with your parents. Make sure you know when to go in and come out, and you remember to deliver your lines in a very very loud voice, facing the audience.
 * English Prep for Monday 29 November 2010**



CGP Verb Tenses and Auxiliary Verbs. pp 10-11. Learn spelling list: 5
 * English Prep for Monday 15 November 2010**

CGP Writing Instructions and Saying What's Happened. pp. 24-25.
 * English Prep for Thursday 04 November 2010**

CGP Book Adverbs about Talking and Word Order pp. 22-23
 * English Prep for Thursday 30 September 2010**

Read the following poem. Look up using Google or a dictionary, the meaning of the words that are underlined. Write out the meaning of the words in your large English books.
 * English Prep for Thursday 23 September 2010**

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">__Quinquereme__ of Nineveh from distant Ophir <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With a cargo of __ivory__, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apes and peacocks, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">__Sandalwood__, cedar wood, and sweet white wine.

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Stately Spanish __galleon__ coming from the __Isthmus__, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dipping through the tropics by the palm-green shores, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With a cargo of diamonds, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Emeralds, amethysts, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">__Topazes__, and cinnamon, and gold __moidores__.

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dirty British __coaster__ with a salt-caked smoke stack, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With a cargo of Tyne coal, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Road-rails, __pig-lead__, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Firewood, ironware, and cheap tin trays.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ophir: wealthy port town mentioned in the Bible <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nineveh: A grand ancient city <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Palestine: Broader area around and including Israel

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Answer the following questions in your large English books.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1. Why do you think the poet wrote this poem? <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2. What makes the poem interesting? <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3. What are mad March days? <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4. Why are there so many lists in the poem? 5. How is the British coaster different to the other ships that are described? 6. Why do you think the poet ends on the British ship?

Here is a Quinquereme.

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 * Prep for Wednesday 15 September 2010**

Work on National Curriculum English, Speech. Complete pages 14-15. You should also be reading for prep.