Homework - Due Friday 21st January

On your A3 chart / mind-map, use colour-coding to consolidate key information you have learned about each of the following characters:

-Linda
-Charley
-Happy
-Biff

Assign a different colour to each of the characters and highlight (using the relevant colour) any ideas on the sheet that relates to our understanding of them.

If you have not done so already, you should also include a sixth theme that you think is relevant to the Reqiuem

(remember that the A3 Chart is the one we completed in class, with the 5 themes from the requiem included on it).

Due: Friday 21st January

Marked

15 year old Zoey get MARKED by the tracer, which leads her to think that her life is now over. but in order to protect the people near her she has to move to the house of night, known as the vampire finishing school. But the good news was that she didnt have to do her gometry test tomorrow..............
but in the school of vampires all she had to learn, all she has to learn was vampire 101?

if you fail, you die.............

Hurricane Gold-Charlie Higson

The author of Hurricane Gold is Charlie Higson. This is the fourth novel in the Young Bond series. James Bond is in a vacation in Mexico at home. However his holiday is cut short when a hurricane hits. As the storm approaches the community, a gang of thieves lies in ambush led by Mrs.Glass. They want Stone's safe, and will kill for its contents. Stones's children, Precious and JJ, are kidnapped, and James must chase and bring back. He went through the jungle to rescue them and take back the stolen items. The clues lead him to the island of Lagrimas Negras, a place for deadly criminals, controlled by El Huracan. James will have to use all of his efforts if he is going to outwit El Huracan and escape. But the only way off the island is through a treacherous maze, "La Avenida de la Muerte" The Avenue of Death.

This book Hurricane Gold by Charlie Higson, is just great because the story follows really smoothly scene to scence. Especially in La Avenida de Muerte, a lot of actions and problems made me to read more and more.

The Wish List by Eoin Colfer

Meg Finn is in trouble. Her mother is dead and her only family is an abusive stepfather who does nothing but watch TV all day. He treats her horribly and abuses her. So when her mother died, Meg embarrasses her stepfather, Franco and he is forced to resign from his job, plus his brand new television that he bought with Meg's special, expensive ring is ruined by Meg. When she is forced to help Belch Brennan, a dim-witted criminal, rob the elderly Lowrie McCall, the attempted burglary ends in disaster. In an attempt to scare Meg, Belch shoots a gas tank, killing them both. While Belch is sent straight to hell (his soul merged with that of his vicious dog Raptor by the explosion, making him a half-boy half-dog creature,) Meg's perfect balance between good and evil earns her a chance to redeem herself. She is sent back to earth in order to help Lowrie complete the items on his "wish list": a list of things that he feels will correct the many mistakes he made in his life.

Meanwhile, Satan has decided that he wants Meg's soul in Hell and Beelzebub is forced to send Belch to recapture Meg and make her sin and become evil, making Belch and Elph, the hologram with which he has been equipped, the chief antagonists in the story.

The Wish List:

1) Kissy Sissy - Kiss Cicely Ward, (aka Sissy) a popular talk-show granny and one-date girlfriend of Lowrie.

2) Kick a ball over the bar in Croke Park.

3) Punch a man who bullied Lowrie at school, Punch Brendan Ball.

4) Spit over the Cliffs of Moher.

Ultimately, following a confrontation on the edge of the Cliffs of Moher, Belch is destroyed and Meg's final act of holiness - giving her stepfather a new life - gains her entry to Heaven.

This book is incredibly fun and very exciting, once I started reading it i just couldn't put the book down until I found out what happened.

I would recommend this book to anyone that loves adventure!!!!

This book is on my Top Ten List. This book should be in the 1001 books before u die!!!!. So read this book!!!!!!!!

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Reading Challenge- the activity. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

The Road is a story of a man and his son struggling for survival in post apocalyptic America. It is unclear how and why but I think judging by the scenery, it looks like a nuclear war occurred. The rivers are all dried up, trees are burned off and everything is destroyed. The man and his son makes their journey down south by following a road. Their journey is full of danger as they are not the only survivors in the barren wasteland. Survivors are either like them or turned into savage cannibals hunting other survivors for human flesh. The man and his son eventually reach the coast but the man dies leaving his son with only a revolver with one round to committ suicide if he has been captured by the cannibals. The boy stays at the man's corpse for 3 days but at the end, another man approaches him claiming to be one of the "good" guys. The boy, with little choice, agrees to follow him. I think the author was trying to portray to the readers what a world without laws and any form of authority can crumble society and all form of human rights. Under no restrain, humans turn to savagery and to their instincts.
This book will seriously keep you reading for at least 4 hours non stop.

Homework (set Friday 19th November)

‘To what extent do you think that the audience should feel sympathy for Willy at this point in the play?’

Write two paragraphs that explain your response, using evidence from different sections of the text to support your viewpoint.

Due: Tuesday 23rd November

Year 10 Homework (set Friday 12th November):

You should write a response to this key question:

‘Does Willy demand that Linda throw away the stockings because he is unable to live with the guilt associated with them, or because he does not want to see his wife wearing mended stockings which make her look poor and, by implication, make Willy look unsuccessful?’