Homework Due on Monday

For Monday's lesson, please re-read chapters 4-6 of  "Lord of the Flies" (inclusive).

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Watch the following clips of the two scenes you have been studying. On post-it notes, jot down ideas of how the actors deliver key lines from the script to communicate their feelings. Stick your post-it notes to the grids you made last week. Think about:


• Tone of voice

• Facial expression

• Actions/gestures

• Movements

• Anything else you notice

Homework due Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th

Read to the end of Act I on page 46 (by Tuesday morning please) and write a paragraph in your notes explaining how each of the main characters (Eddie, Beatrice, Rudolpho, Marco, Catehrine) develops in Act I. Your should also include three quotations per character. I will look at you paragraphs in the lesson on Thursday 29th.

Homework due Monday 19th September

Read Arthur Miller's stage directions at the beginning of "A View from the Bridge" and draw and label a detailed plan of how the stage should be set up for a production of the play.

"A View from the Bridge": Background Research

A View From the Bridge

In order to understand the play, its characters and their motivation, it is important that you have good working knowledge of the literary tradition on which the play draws and the time in which it was set. You should therefore use the internet to make notes in your exercise book, containing as much information as possible about the following things:

1. Arthur Miller
2. Greek tragedies: what were they? What does protagonist mean? How did the tragedy come about?
3. The story of Oedipus Rex: what happened? What was Oedipus’ fatal flaw? (this is definitely on Wikipedia)
4. Italian Immigration to America in the 1940s
5. Life and culture in New York in the 1940s
6. Omerta: What does it mean? Where does it come from?