Archetypes Extension Activity
When and only when you have finished and submitted your essay, here is another activity for you. You might find this a little more fun.
Download the PowerPoint document and follow the instructions on the second slide.
Gallery of Archetypal Characters
I recommend that you right-click on this file, and then save it to your desktop before you start.
Power of English: Wednesday
You’ll start in Q02 and my replacement will take you over to Q19.
This is your final class time to write your essay “How are character archetypes used in ‘Killed by Death’?”
I have looked over your work from Monday and added some comments. You can get your essays from my OMEAM Resources folder on the W drive.
Here are some links that might be useful.
Example essay
the presentation about this essay
The script of the episode.
Important Bit
At the end of this double session, you need to copy your essay (even if it is not finished) over to my Drop Box on the W drive. I’ll be collecting them from their when I get back to school on Friday.
Year 11 English: Wednesday & Thursday
In the three session that you have without me this week, you need to complete a graph for the entire novel.
This has two purposes. Firstly, it shows you the rise and fall of the story and makes it clear how the author has used juxtaposition and sequencing for the desire effect. Secondly, it will help you build up a list of useful quotations from the text, which will be useful when you write your essay in just over a week.
You might choose to work alone, in a group, or as a whole class. I am not fussed. I just want you to get a deeper understanding of this text.
In case you are unwell and working from home, here are the two documents that you need to complete: Generals Quotations and Graphing Generals Die in Bed
Power of English: Tuesday
You will start the single session today in our regular classroom. My replacement will take you to the library where you can read books, magazines or newspaper of your choice. Just do some reading, rather than just chatting.
Morphing English: Tuesday
This class will start in your regular room, then my replacement will take you over to the library to use the computers there.
There is no fifteen-minute writing task today. We’ll get back into that once I am back.
In this double session, I want you to complete your presentations and speeches about new words in English. The full information about that task is here.
You can find your presentations in
W:\Resources\OMEAM\Morphing English
You’ll need to save it back to your own drive when you are finished. Then copy it across to my drop box on the W drive.
I’ll probably take you through some presentation techniques for a few minutes on Friday and then some of you will be presenting.
ALSO
You should still have those pieces of paper with feedback about each other’s presentations. I’d like you to cut or tear those into strips for each person and give them to each other so you have all that feedback when you are working on your presentation. I know that you might think that you already know what needs correcting, but you’d want to be carved out of chocolate to ignore perfectly good feedback.
If you have a few minutes once you’ve finished writing your presentation and talk, look through this presentation about giving a talk.
Power of English: Monday
Today, we will start in our regular room, them move to the library to use the computers there. You’ll be writing and typing your archetypes essays, ”
I have written an example essay, about archetypes and the film Cars. You might want to have a quick read of it to understand the structure that I am looking for.
The essay question is “How are archetypes used in ‘Killed by Death’?”
Your response will have;
An introduction that explains the basic idea of archetypes and introduces the text (Killed by Death)
A paragraph about one archetype and which character(s) in this episode fit this type. Your middle three paragraphs will use specific examples from the text and explain how these characters and their actions are consistent with particular character archetypes.
A paragraph about a second archetype and which character(s) in this episode fit this type.
A paragraph about a third archetype and which character(s) in this episode fit this type.
A conclusion, restating the main points of your explanation.
Here is the presentation about this essay that we looked at the other day.
If you want to get some quotations, try this site.
Important Bit
At the end of this double session, you need to copy your essay-in-progress over to my Drop Box on the W drive. I will give you some feedback and put it back in my resources folder in time for you to finish this piece by lunchtime on Wednesday.
Year 11 English: Monday
If our last two Mondays are anything to go by, this morning you’ll all be sleepy and unresponsive for the first hour. All the same, we’re going to skip over our fifteen minutes of writing and try to plough through the final three chapters of Generals Die in Bed.
Once we’ve done that, I’ll give you the graph for this book which you will complete later this week.
Morphing English: Friday
We will continue looking at the various rules and conventions involved in writing speech.
Example Essay
How are archetypes used in the film Cars?
Read more…
Morphing English: Thursday
Today and tomorrow, we will be looking at the various rules and conventions involved in writing speech.
Year 11 English: Thursday
Today, we will continue reading Generals Die in Bed. We are collecting quotations as we go, especially those that show how the author has ordered the story to create a particular message. As we read chapters seven and eight yesterday, we will read chapter nine today.
With any luck, we’ll have this novel knocked over by the end of Monday.
Because this is only a single session, we will not do our fifteen-minute writing.
Sound Recording: Audacity
When we were talking about music, I mentioned Audacity. Here is the link, for anyone who is interested.
Power of English: Archetypes and Buffy
The presentation that we looked at today is here.
If you want to get some quotes, try this site.
Wednesday’s Music: The Commitments
Today in Year 11 English, we listened to the soundtrack to the crackingly-good 1991 film The Commitments.
Not that commitment has two m’s and one t.
Power of English: Wednesday
In this double session, you will have time to finish writing your final copy of your explanation of character archetypes in the Buffy episode Killed by Death.
This explanation will have:
An introduction that explains the basic idea of archetypes and introduces the text (Killed by Death)
A paragraph about one archetype and which character(s) in this episode fit this type. Your middle three paragraphs will use specific examples from the text and explain how these characters and their actions are consistent with particular character archetypes.
A paragraph about a second archetype and which character(s) in this episode fit this type.
A paragraph about a third archetype and which character(s) in this episode fit this type.
A conclusion, restating the main points of your explanation.
If we finish this piece in time, we will start reading Burning Eddy.