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Peer Assessment
Romeo and Juliet – Urban Style
Romeo and Juliet Project: Assessment
Over-All grade: INCOMPLETE: 6C
- Film: Not yet submitted
- Timeline: Not yet submitted
- Presentation to class: 7C – Very confident and well-prepared presentation and very strong fluency with subject material
- Essay:
- Reading Grade: 6A – Very sophisticated appreciation of the lingustic, stylistic, generic and historical context of the play
- Writing Grade: 5A – Well structured, with lapses in style and accuracy as noted in extended comment.
Metaphor Analysis
Your task is to identify the metaphor present in the following excerpt and then write a paragraph that explains the metaphor and its effect on the meaning of the passage it is embedded in.
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!
Feel free to re-watch the presentation explaining how to identify and explain metaphor:
EBA Awards
To follow are the official results of the EBA Awards for December 2012. Invented by Gabriel, these awards are designed to celebrate excellence, creativity and innovation in Year 8 Blogging.
Voted for by the students themselves, everyone gets one watchmark for every vote they receive, and the winners of each category get 5 watchmarks. The top 4 blogs also get promotion on their peer’s blogs, and get profiled for 14 days on the Edutronic front page.
The winners are:
BEST CONTENT:
BEST APPEARANCE:
Conratulations to everyone involved!
Mr Waugh
This is Your Online Domain
Hello and welcome to your personal online journal.
This platform has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at the London Nautical School. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work on here is visible to the world, or only to your teacher.
Anything you post here in the public domain represents you and thus it’s important that you take care with that decision, but don’t be afraid to publish your work – as the feedback you may get from people at home, your peers and people from around the internet is only likely to enhance it.
Remember you can always access your class blog and all manner of resources through the Edutronic.net main website – and by all means check out the sites of your peers to see what they’re getting up to as well.
If you have any questions for me, an excellent way to get an answer is to create a new private post on this journal. I am notified of any new posts and will reply swiftly to any queries.
Make the most of, and enjoy this new freedom in your English learning.
Righto!
Mr Waugh