For the Macbeth project -- think of what the scene is doing for the audience and for the story and try to honour that. If it's serious or scary, don't make it funny. NERF GUNS DON'T WORK! When you are doing your scene, you must make sure everyone can hear you!!
Make sure you hand in that last composition on time. I need it for your report cards.
If you are interested in preparing for grade 12 by reading, here is a list of grade 12 novels, non-fiction books and plays that your teacher might use next year:
Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte
1984 - George Orwell
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Outsider - Albert Camus
The Wars - Timothy Findley
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Handmaid's Tale or The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
PLAYS
"The Crucible" - Arthur Miller
"The Merchant of Venice", "The Tempest", "King Lear", "Twelfth Night", "As You Like It" (Shakespeare)
The most common choice for grade 12 is "Hamlet".
NON-FICTION
Always Running - Luis J. Rodriguez
A Short History of Indians in Canada - Thomas King
The Inconvenient Indian - Thomas King
I can't guarantee that your teacher will use any of these, but the more you read, the better your English will be, so enjoy your books! (These should all be available at the public library.)
Last year, for Grade 12 English, I used Timothy Findley's The Wars as the novel we read as a class and "Hamlet" as the play. (There are lots of good versions of "Hamlet" on film. I really like the one starring Mel Gibson and Mr. Price used to love the one directed by Kenneth Branagh -- they're both great.)
No comments:
Post a Comment