All posts by Renee Plunkett

Teacher of English at Mount Aspiring College, Wanaka, New Zealand.

The Film Essay

Following the study of our film, The Adjustment Bureau, we will now write an essay that closely analyses the final scene of the film. Explain how the director uses film techniques to communicate an important

D

Debating Notes

This link will take you to a template of a way that you can structure your debating speech.

The Week that Was: A Homework Task

A literacy skills task designed to also get us reading about our world.

Creative Writing- Notes and Tasks

This post will follow the tasks that the class does while learning about devices commonly used when developing a scene. Connotation Connotations are the secondary ideas that we associate with a word. They are used

Romeo and Juliet: The Essay Task

The final task for our class exploration of the play.

Romeo and Juliet- Post Reading Tasks

Now that we have finished reading the play, Romeo and Juliet, we will be delving into some of the ideas that are developed by Shakespeare in the text. Romeo Romeo is one of two main

Romeo and Juliet- The Class Reading

Below are some of the notes from the discussions we have been having as we have read the Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet. To begin with, we discussed what we know about the play and

Romeo and Juliet- Research!

In order to help us understand the concept of fate, you are going to journey back in time to Elizabethan England to discover what people really believed about fate controlling their lives. Your task is

Romeo and Juliet- The Script

Romeo and Juliet is so popular that four of our Year 10 classes are all studying it at the same time! In order to make this work, we will be using the PDF copy of