Hello!
This is the start of what I hope will be a useful resource for you this year. I plan to post once per week on topics that relate to, extend and explore themes and ideas that we discuss in class or which we don't have time for in class. It will be most useful to you, I think, if you check in regularly, and make a commitment to responding to each post and to comments made by others. (Please make sure your username somehow identifies who you are! Comments from anonymous or unidentifiable contributors will be removed.)
It's a private blog, so you won't find it in a Google search. Make sure you bookmark it somehow. You can also subscribe by email using the link on the right, so you'll get an email alert each time a new post is published.
I will try to make sure that each post has at least one discussion question, so that you have something to comment on, which will give you practice at articulating ideas in written form - a crucial skill for all of the assessment in Literature. I encourage you to try out language, vocabulary and ideas here, where it doesn't 'count', so that you can hear back from others about what's on track and what needs some amendment before you write the assessment tasks.
If you find useful sites that you think others in the class will benefit from, please contribute them, too - remember, we're a team, all trying to pull together to get the best possible aggregate score, to benefit each individual's score.
Today's discussion questions:
1. What are Fowles' major concerns in "The French Lieutenant's Woman", and why do you think so?
2. What do you see as the most significant moments in the story, and why did you choose them?
So, get thinking and writing. DON'T feel that you need the 'right' answers - there are no such things in this subject. You just need to be able to defend your ideas with evidence from the text.
-Ms Batch
