Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Ibby – Romeo and Juliet Soliloquy
Ibby unlocked the Soliloquy Badge with this piece as part of his Romeo and Juliet project
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Reece Williamson-Rowe Analyses Julius Caesar
Reece Analyses Julius Caesar 1.2 from Joel North on Vimeo.
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We’re Proud of You
You’re invited to this year’s Department of English and Drama Town Meeting. This meeting is part of our mission to open every level of the department to participation from our students and you, their families. The London Nautical Department of English and Drama has some significant plans for the coming year, and we invite you to participate…
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Crossed Paths – Film Club 2014
The London Nautical School Film Club concentrated on the art of the long take this year and after 9 months of study, practice and development, created this short film ‘essai’, demonstrating what they’d learned. Let us know what you think.
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The London Nautical School Band
The London Nautical School band performs their own composition for the first time at the Royal Festival Hall Open Mic event in March 2014.
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LNS Choir – Pinball Wizard
LNS Choir singing “Pinball Wizard” at the Royal Festival Hall, March 2014
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LNS Choir – The Book of Mormon
Students from the London Nautical School Choir perform a song from the musical “The Book of Mormon” at the Royal Festival Hall in March 2014.
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LNS Choir – Royal Festival Hall – March 2014
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner Presentations
A Year 7 class present recitals and lectures arising from their study of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – see the full project here
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Year 9 Drama – Devised Pieces
Students were given the task of devising a modern-day version of a Greek tragedy in which the hero falls from a position of greatness as a result of a tragic flaw such as greed, jealousy, ambition…
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Year 9 Drama – Devised Tragedies
Students were given the task of devising a modern-day version of a Greek tragedy in which the hero falls from a position of greatness as a result of a tragic flaw such as greed, jealousy, ambition…
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Year 7 BFI Film Project – Films Inspired by Haroun & the Sea of Stories
The mysterious alien 1 from Rebecca Wilson on Vimeo. The Magical Coat from Rebecca Wilson on Vimeo. The Perplexing Purse from Rebecca Wilson on Vimeo. J K A Donz from Rebecca Wilson on Vimeo. The Mystery of the Masked Men from Rebecca Wilson on Vimeo. Horror of the River Bank from Rebecca Wilson on Vimeo.…
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That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs. Upon the slimy sea.
Rime – Billy from Joel North on Vimeo. Rime – Jay from Joel North on Vimeo. Rime – Christopher B from Joel North on Vimeo. Rime – Cadell from Joel North on Vimeo. Rime – Finn from Joel North on Vimeo. Rime – Freddie from Joel North on Vimeo. Rime – Jonjo from Joel North on Vimeo. Rime – Lazaro from Joel North…
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The Jostling Brothers
As part of their Year 11 GCSE project exploring Shakespeare and the Literary Heritage, Mr Waugh’s class created, in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The CLC and the British Film Institute, a short film based on an extract from the play Titus Andronicus. You can look at the lesson sequence on the Year 11 Class…
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Advanced Strategies for Embedding Quotations – Of Mice and Men
This is a teacher presentation exploring advanced strategies for embedding quotations into analytical writing – concentrating on character analysis in the novella Of Mice and Men. You can access the full lesson sequence.
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Advice for an essay on fate in Romeo and Juliet
Advice to students who are working on their Romeo and Juliet project on how to prepare for their essay on fate.
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Theme Study Presentation: Success
Alfie presented the findings of his Theme Investigation into the nature of success to a select group of students and parents.
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Theme Study Presentation: The Human Soul
Mark presented the findings of his Theme Investigation into the human soul to a select group of students and parents.
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Romeo and Juliet – Modern Interpretation
As part of their Romeo and Juliet Project, these students re-enacted a scene from the play in a more, let’s say, contemporary, context.
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Sounds from the Sea – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Our Year 7 Class have been exploring the use of figurative language in the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a teacher presentation designed to support this analysis.
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Technology Transforming Teaching
A presentation to our German partners on how technology has transformed our work in English at the London Nautical School
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Spoken Language Study
This video contains my advice to students completing their GCSE Assessment after a Spoken Language Studythat investigated the movement of features of spoken language that have moved into text and instant messaging communication.
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Romeo and Juliet: The Boys
This is a sample of the scenes you wrote and presented based on Act I, Scene i of Shakespreare’s Romeo and Juliet. Everyone was successful at maintaining the nuances of the meaning of the original script while adapting it for a contemporary ‘South London’ location. It’s a far cry from Verona, but not so far…
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Dystopian Fiction – Writers’ Workshop
In The Crysalids, John Wyndham created a fictional world that expressed the contemporary anxiety about the nuclear threat posed by the Cold War arms race. Told from the point of view of a naive narrator, David, The Crysalids explores the post-apocalyptic landscape of strict religion, civil conflict and extraordinary genetic mutation. This task supports students…
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The Lost Thing – A deeper reading
A set of questions to support the metacognitive analysis of The Lost Thing by Shawn Tan according to the principles set by the King’s college “Let’s Think in English” programme.
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Personification in Macbeth
As part of the introduction to our Year 8 Macbeth Study, we’re looking, in acute detail, at some small excerpts from the main play. Before we start reading. Before we know the plot. We’re putting the microscope on the language of shakespeare and what this might reveal. My proposition with this presentation is that Shakespeare…
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Romeo and Juliet Act I Scene 1 – The Boys
A presentation to go with an examination of the specific dramatic elements in the first scene of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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Advanced Extended Writing – Introductions and Structure
A presentation giving some pointers towards methods of improving the quality and sophistication of extended analytical and report writing for the students and teachers at the London Nautical School
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Year 8 English – Personification in Macbeth II – Unsex me here
This presentation incorporates the close analysis of a short excerpt from Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth reveals her dark resolve for the presence of the figurative language feature, Personification. › Access the whole learning programme: waugh8.edutronic.net/macbeth-personification-2/
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Fate, Free will and Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet
This presentation explores references to fate and the use of figurative language in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet › Access the whole sequence here: wp.me/p3PtNk-cB
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