The Level two exam is over and I have heard mainly positive comments about the papers. Do you have any comments that you would like to make?
Good luck Year 12!
If you studied the poetry of Wilfred Owen this year you may be interested in reading the following essay. It was written in an exam and it focuses on the poems Dulce et Decorum est, Disabled and A...
These questions are for the students who have studied Tim O’Brien and Seamus Heaney. 1. In what ways does the writer (or writers) you have studied make the reader aware of an important theme or th...
The Level Two English exam is on Wednesday morning and although I am sure that you haven’t forgotten what is in the exam I will remind you anyway. If you are in 202 these are the papers that you w...
Thank you to the students who have sent me essays on The Kite Runner. I have enjoyed reading them and I thought I would share some of the from the essays. It has been wonderful to note how many of...
I am reading a lot of essays on the visual texts at the moment and some of you are still confused about film terminology. I have added a brief guide below. 1. The parts of a film Frame - a single ...
FYI, The Kite Runner was written by Khaled Hosseini not Kalid Hosinni or Karl Houdini.
Due to the length of a novel it is possible to see characters and themes develop and emerge from the text over the course of several hundred pages. Any number of settings, characters, complication...
The NCEA Level One English exam will be held on November 18 (next Tuesday morning!) and here are some reminders about what to prepare for. If you are in 101 you will be sitting the following stand...
The greatest barrier to achievement at Level 2 remains the depth of analysis required. Simplistic analysis such as “if the writer did not use these techniques the film wouldn’t be as effective”, ...
What makes for a good answer? Answers that show an understanding of the question You will need to interpret the question; that is, work out what is required to answer the question. No question...
Baba would buy us each three kites and spools of glass string. If I changed my mind and asked for a bigger and fancier kite, Baba would buy it for me - but then he’d buy it for Hassan too. Sometime...
We know about Oskar Schindler but during World War Two, many individuals from many countries risked their lives to save various minorities, especially Jews, from the horrors of the Holocaust. Go he...
I have added another exam essay from a Year 9 student. The essay was written in an exam and it is about the novel Holes. What do you think about it? Describe a character who changed during the tex...
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