Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4

Eat, sleep, breathe poetry

The best way to get comfortable with poetry is to spend more time with it.


Here's a great place to start:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/27wq69x1zsvNcPbcJmFrJfF/contains-strong-language-a-season-of-poets-and-poetry

Eliot: ...not such a Prufrock after all?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/30/new-edition-of-ts-eliot-poems-challenge-perceptions-of-his-sexuality

Year 10 Homework - due on Tuesday 6th October

Write a letter home to your wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her about your extraordinary day.

In your letter, you must cover:

- Your exploits in battle

- Your encounter with the witches

- Your meetings with Ross and Angus, then with King Duncan

- Your hopes and fears

She will want to know that you can see the opportunity that lies before you.

She will also want to know you didn't show anyone else what you were thinking!

So reassure her about both.

> Remember to act on your last writing targets.

> Bonus points if you can use words from the play correctly.

The nature of time in Modernist thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F37YTjKP-U

Modern times in the movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1kxfiY_1DA – Metropolis

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lp4EbfPAtI – documentary on Chaplin’s Modern Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjarLbD9r30 – the movie (1936)

Amazing research tool for your essays

http://modernism.research.yale.edu/index.php


I'll show you how to use it in a lesson, but feel free to get a head start.