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English CA poems Cousin Kate: Rossetti I WAS a cottage maiden Hardened by sun and air, Contented with my cottage mates, Not mindful I was fair. Why did a great lord find me out, And praise my flaxen hair? Why did a great lord find me out To fill my heart with care? He lured me to his palace home-- Woe's me for joy thereof-- To lead a shameless shameful life, His plaything and his love. He wore me like a silken knot, He changed me like a glove; So now I moan, an unclean thing, Who might have been a dove. O Lady Kate, my cousin Kate, You grew more fair than I: He saw you at your father's gate, Chose you, and cast me by. He watched your steps along the lane, Your work among the rye; He lifted you from mean estate To sit with him on high. Because you were so good and pure He bound you with his ring: The neighbours call you good and pure, Call me an outcast thing. Even so I sit and howl in dust, You sit in gold...

Start your English Revision Book - make it beautiful! - Listen to 2 Never Let Me Go podcasts from website and write notes in your lovely revision notes - Listen to 2 Inspector Calls podcasts. - Go over Hamlet notes and poetry notes and make sure you have a very detailed plan which includes sophisticated and detailed links to 3 poems,  - Refugee Blues, What has happened to Lulu, Cousin Kate? - Finish reading Never Let Me Go# - Organise your folders so you can review Never Let Me Go, Inspector Calls and Mice and Men - Begin learning the Cheat Sheets and Meaty and Juicy Quotation Sheets (if you have lost these you can find them on this website - just search 'Cheat Sheet' or 'Meaty' or use the labels on the right-hand side-bar) - Do final revisions on your coursework folder Your controlled assesssment will take place w/c 7th March so thorough preparation during the holidays is crucial! All this will be checked the Tuesday we come back

English as a Second Language Countdowns Second Language English Reading and Writing Second Language English Listening  English First Language and English Literature Countdowns Paper 2 - How long do you have left? Of Mice and Men + Poetry Countdown An Inspector Calls and Never Let Me Go

How does Ishiguro create a sense of isolation and otherness in this passage? *Madame clutches her briefcase to her chest, self-protective gesture – even before she sees the children, we sense that she is scared…also implies that she may need to guard the documents carefully. Multi-layered hints that Madame is not just a kind adult – there are unsettling elements to the way she is described * In this scene, there is a strong sense of two groups – the children who have made a ‘scheme’ and a ‘plot’ versus Madame. The children assume that they are in control, as they are the ones who have carefully planned for this moment for so long, ‘on a signal from Ruth’, ‘the plan we’d come up with’. However, the shock of this episode, is that actually the children are the ones who are most deeply disturbed and scared by the encounter with Madame, not the other way around. There is a turning point, ‘the strange change that came over us’, when the children realise that Madame does not consider...

" Love and friendship when time is limited, in the of mortality" *Dystopia/Organ donation/Clones only added as an afterthought *Love is vital because we're going to die... *Being 15,16,17 we feel like we are outsiders... all these people feel outsiders but they are the same as one other person (clones) and they seek their 'possible' they are looking not only for the origins and some sense of family but also trying to find that one person that is the same as them. Which arguably, is the same longing experience in falling in love....

What do we notice about the way Tommy is introduced? Tommy's temper tantrum - 'with a shrug' - Kathy is controlled by the people watching from the windows, and therefore she does not want to show any real concern for Tommy publicly. This foreshadows how she will later give in to peer pressure again and not ask Tommy out. - 'Mad animal' Tommy is referred to as an animal by Ruth and another student compares him initially to an urinating dog, 'like a dog doing a pee',  Tommy is one of the only students in the school who is open with his emotions, and yet he is dismissed by the students as an animal.  - Mud on T-shirt - he is dirty, shameful, like a child who can't clean himself up...vulnerable, loss of control - We can sense that Kathy is attracted to Tommy but she feels compelled to hide this - Tommy accidentally hits Kathy.....and even though she knows it isn't intentional, she still responds in exactly the same way as the other girls, ...