Tuesday, 26th January 2021 We wrote a paper one last week, I wrote mine on ‘Eat Me’ by Patience Agbabi. I quite liked this poem and had a lot of ideas surrounding it. I waffled on about the ideas for a while, so the structure of my essay was not great, as well as an […]

Wednesday 20/01/2020 Paper 1 Notes We looked at “The Banished Gods” by Derek Mahon. Where nature is personified and prompts the readers to feel remorse or regret towards modern life. I started writing a paper 1 introduction 3 times because I was not happy with how my ideas sounded on the paper, as well as […]

25th September 2020 Last week we completed a practice Paper 1 Unseen Essay. Here is the poem that I analysed and my essay with annotations from my teacher.I learnt that I need to work on how I structure my introduction, as I didn’t have on in the essay due to my misunderstanding about how I […]

25th September 2020 Over the past few weeks, we have been exploring the poetry in Slyvia Plath’s poetry collection of Ariel. The poems were written in the months before her death, and show a perspective on her mental health struggles, her identity struggles and her struggles with motherhood. In class, we went through many of the […]

1st September 2020 (from my perspective) In Ping, the short story could be portraying an individual that has lost their memory. Samuel Beckett uses basic language, and incorrect sentence structure to explain the individual’s perception of the world, and their attempts to make sense of the changes and connect them to what they already know. […]

Friday, 15.05.20 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fqi1eEEPrDX4Pjl02iWamLb4QeUKQCyE4F-BSvHsh6M/edit?usp=sharing I am doing Jane Austen’s Persuasion for my EE and I did Little Women by Louisa May Alcott for my group reads. I am also re-watching the tv show version of Pride and Prejudice with my mum. (There is also a reference to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey at the beginning of the […]

Wednesday, 6th of May 2020 Page 7 “A world could be made in five pages, and one that was more pleasing than a model farm” Using different words, or a different perspective could show a completely different story, a different world. Referencing to how the way people see this world is different depending on their […]

06.03.20 Chapter 5 of Home Fire, Thoughts on Parvaiz What we know about Parvaiz  Chapter 5 (page 115) Present-day Parviaz is confident, He has changed his name and rejected his identity. “I am not Parvaiz anymore.” Flashback Parvaiz is insecure, not confident about his abilities, affected by his family’s opinions about him and their expectations. […]

Wednesday, 04.03.20 We filled out an Oral Planning sheet for 2 extracts, one from Home Fire and one from Antigone. Here is a picture of my feedback: Key things to improve for next time: Reference the writers in all points Link to Global Issue Use specific examples Think about the transitions between points

Tuesday, 02.03.20 Extract from Chapter 2 of Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie: ‘I mean it. You betrayed us, both of us. And then you tried to hide it from me. Don’t call, don’t text, don’t send me pictures, don’t fly across the ocean and expect me to ever agree to see your face again. We […]