Work for Sec 1A1 on 24/2 and 1E4 on 25/2

NO HOMEWORK! BUT complete Symbol and Theme worksheet.

Bring the worksheet to school COMPLETED so you won't waste time trying to find evidence. Once done, you have to get into your 1st group to coplete the Symbolism and Theme mindmap for CA2.

Sec 1A1. I have your worksheets and will return them to you on Tuesday.

Ann and Ruisin from Sec 1E4. I expect to see you in class on Wednesday. if you are not present, you will not be getting grades for CA2 as you have not done much work for Literature at all.

This is only 1 part of the Symbolism and Theme MindMap. You have to put ALL your maps together to form ONE big map for all protagonists.

PS: I apologise for this late post as I was not able to post it on Saturday and my Internet is down for the weekend. Posted 9.39 pm Sunday.

Homework for Sec 1A1 and 1E4 on 16 Feb and 18th Feb 2009

NONE! HURRAH!

1. Just complete your work from last week as well as you can. I would have signed on your homework sheet already so THAT is the work that you have to bring to school.

2. You have to combine your work to make a group mindmap (Please see the suggested work below for Characterisation Mindmap.

3. Once you do this (it should take ONE period only) you have to discuss the new work on Symbolism and Theme. I will discuss it in class using the example here. Do not worry about this. Just bring all the materials (pictures, wrapping paper, etc ) that you want to use for the collage work.

4. Refer to the Final Collage to see what your final work should look like.

Note to Ann and Ruisin.

You have to hand in your protaginist mindmap on Wednesday as you had MISSED 2 lessons with me. That means you have missed 6 periods for Literaure to go to Vollayball tournaments and the work counts for an individual mark. If you do not have the work, I would not be able to give you the marks at all. You would only get group work mark (only if you do the work). This counts for CA2.

Cassandra: If you have done Matilda mindmap for the new work, then what happens to your group who will be missing Miss Trunchbull? Please see me about it.

Class Work for Characterisation mindmap for Sec 1A1 and 1E4

Step 1: Example 1

This is ONE example of how you can put all the mindmaps of the protagonists together. You would have done 2 different ones. So choose the best one for this work.

Step 1: Example 2

This is another example from sec 1A1. Remember that in order to have a complete mindmap, you should include all the protagonists in ONE big mindmap.

The characters are: Matilda Wormwood, Harry Wormwood, Miss Agatha Trunchbull and Miss Jennifer Honey. If there are five of you in the group, you have to include Mrs Wormwood as well.

STEP ONE is to be done in ONE period.

CHARACTERISATION, SYMBOLISM AND THEME IN MATILDA (2nd mindmap)

You have to translate the character mindmap (above) to the symbolism and theme mindmap (below) in your group

Step 1 :

1. Decide on your symbol for your protagonist and give a reason why you have chosen such a symbol.

2. Choose 3 important adjectives for your protagonist (from your character mindmap) and write the adjectives on the branches.

3. Choose examples that best support your adjectives (from your character mind map)

Step 2 : Theme

A theme is an idea or message about life, society, or human nature.

When you read Matilda, several messages will stand out, like FAMILY. Matilda does not have a good family. What do you think a good famiy should be like? What about Miss Honey's family? Why do you think Matilda chooses to be part of Miss Honey's family at the end of the book? What is she looking for in a family and did she find it? These are the questions that we think about when we read Matilda.

Therefore one of the themes or messages in the book is family and what a family should be. Can you think of others? Look at your quotations and events and you can easily find other themes.

STEP TWO is to be done in 2 periods in class. (1E4)

Homework for 1E4: Symbols for 8 Feb 2009

1. Think of a symbol that you can associate with your character. A symbol is an object that represents something else. In my work, I had chosen a bull to represent Miss Trunchbull. She is strong as a bull and her physical description also reminds me of a bull. You can use another object to represent her too. (Think about it for Wednesday class)
For class work. you would have to work in groups and pick out the best examples or quotations. You need to bring a new mindmap to school with your character-symbol in the middle of the map. There will be five supporting points (in yellow). Make sure you bring THIS prep work if you want to get the homewrok star. If you do very poor work, you won't be getting the homework star.

This is what your new map may look like after you work with the others in your class. I would be grouping the same characters together so all of you can brainstorm your ideas. Put the best ideas in the mindmap.

Look at the words in GREEN. These are events in the novel that you need to bring out in the mindmap. I will explain this next week before the group work.

OK 1E4. Good Luck with homework. Pease ask me about it in school if you have any questions.

For class, please bring felt pens (coloured pens), 1 piece of coloured paper A4, gum and scissors.