Exam preparation
Written by hall on November 10th, 2008Practise writing a letter of complaint with this amazing online activity.
Magic and Mutation unit overview
Written by hall on October 31st, 2008For details on what we are doing and the questions we are asking, have a look at our planner.
Magic and Mutation review task
Written by hall on October 31st, 2008Ms Hall’s class has the first review due on Monday 3/11 and the second one due on Friday 7/11.
superstitions and beliefs about the albatross
Written by hall on August 1st, 2008Read the articles on the following links and make a comment in response to the question below.
The sailors tell the mariner it is a bad thing that he killed the albatross, “Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,/ that made the breeze to blow!” but also that it was a good thing, “‘Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,/ that bring the fog and mist.” Using the information in the two articles you have read, do you think it was a good thing or a bad thing for the mariner to kill the albatross? Write your comment in a structured paragraph.
Ocean Quotations
Written by tmarch on July 31st, 2008Choose one of the following quotations and write a comment explaining what it means to you.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.
~e.e. cummings
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. ~H.M. Tomlinson
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country. ~Author Unknown
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad
Praise the sea; on shore remain. ~John Florio
The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
~Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~William Hazlitt
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~George Herbert