Category: Communication

We’ve got a special programme this lunchtime, about self-harm.How schools are troubling to cope with it and how hospitals are treating more people because of it. We have got some quite powerful graphic stories coming up in the next fifteen minutes, but we’ll have people tell you about their experiences including this thirteen year old. At first it was just scratches and everything but it started to progress into deeper scratches then cuts then to deeper cuts more often ‘and mum’ i asked her about if she’d hurt her self again and she started to cry and she got very upset and iv’e made her show me and she’d just cut herself probably maybe twenty thirty times. Well also here before one’o’clock from teachers who struggling with the big rise of the students self harming and the medical experts who can tell us what they think is behind it

Boy I don’t understand
Its nor like I want to go. I just have to.

Mum I told you about about 100 times.

Boy Make me join the army, even though I don’t want to

Mum No! Your joining the army to fight for your country

Boy That is not what you want, you just want to avenge Frank, my stupid step dad.

Mum How dare you talk about him like that, if it wasn’t for him we wouldn’t have all this money and this house.

Boy What do you mean ‘we wouldn’t have all this money’ all you ever do is spend all your money on your posh clothes.

Mum I’m sorry I haven’t had time for you but you have to go, the government will take all of our money.

Boy You selfish woman get away from me.

Task
Find twenty unusual words and define them

Bestir: To cause (oneself) to become active

Hence: For this reason

Mischance: Bad luck

Bawling: To cry noisily

Blasphemous: Behaviour or language that shows disrespect for God or sacred things

Cur: Vicious mongrel dog

Act 4 scene 1

Prospero: All thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou hast strangely stood the test.

Prospero said the line.
Also Prospero I saying this line to Ferdinand.

Prospero is testing Ferdinand physically.

(Son sneaks down the stairs to the fridge)
(Mother enters)

Mother: Where do you think your going!?

Son: Where do you think I’m going?

Mother: What did I say about these protests you keep going

Son: I don’t care about what you say anymore, you cant control my life

Mother: What! You think I cant control where you go, you live under my bloody roof child. If you want anymore money or food, I suggest you stop giving me attitude and start listening to what I say. If you don’t want to get killed stay at home and don’t go to the protest.

Son: I’m going where ever I feel is right, I don’t care about money or food I care about what is right.

Scene summary Act 3 scene 3
Prospero has brought Alonso to his kingdom to challenge them and anger them. Prospero has also planned to charm them. ‘my high charms work’

Act 3 scene 3 choose a line.

Sebastian [To Antonio] the next advantage we will take thoroughly

I believe Sebastian is thinking that he could over throw the king of Naples because he has lost hope in finding his son, who is the heir to the throne. Sebastian is the brother of the king of naples and if Sebastian gets rid of him he will be king.

Caliban’s plan

Told, sleep, seized, batter, paunch, cut, posses, command, hate, burn, calls, deck, consider, brain, does, brave, having, remember

He handed the ball to him

You are so lippy

Stop eying me

He has brave utensils
He(noun)
Has(

In this scene we meet two new characters Trinculo and Stephano,we meet one more character but an old one,Caliban. What happens in this scene is, Caliban comes home late with wood. He feels scared when realises Trinculo has entered his house(cave). Trinculo hides under a cloth because he thinks Trinculo is going to torment him. Trinculo is drunk he thinks that Caliban is a fish or monster, he thinks he can make money from him, lightning strikes and scares him, he hides under the cloth. Stephano enters and he thinks that Caliban and Trinculo under the blanket are a monster and he believes he can also make money out of them, ‘if I can recover him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he’s a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat’s leather.’ Trinculo realises Stephano is his old friend who he thought had drowned. They both act as if they are gods and Caliban who is so stupid and gullible that he believes they are powerful gods. Caliban now wants to join them

In my opinion I believe that Caliban only wants to join them because if Trinculo and Stephano are powerful gods they can overpower Prospero.

The most significant character is Caliban the scene starts with him being all down and and ends with him happy with a plan to take his island back. join

Mr North’s comment:

You have clearly understood the scene, the characters and the events involved. You have also made reference to possible points where the plot will develop.

Targets:

Always use a supporting quotation and justify it.

Identify a language device within yiur quotation and explore how this affects your understanding of a character and their actions.

1) I believe that Prospero treats Caliban as a slave, this is because he has lost all his respect for him. Also Prospero calls Caliban a ‘Poisonous’ slave-this is emotive language as Caliban is not actually Poisonous, it just means Calliban is foul. Also Prospero tells us that Caliban has been ‘got by the devil himself’
This is a metaphor because Caliban was not got by the devil he was born to Sycarax, his mother. What this means is that he is calling Calliban’s mother a devil but, she is not really a devil she is a witch.

2)Caliban is foul and stupid, he takes Prospero’s rude comment as a compliment and also I believe he replies with another comment
‘As wicked dew as e’er my mother brush’d with raven’s feather from unwholsome fen drop on you both!a south west blow on ye and blister you all o’er’
In other words Caliban is saying to Prospero ‘Yes, it is true I am wicked, just like my mother’ also I believe that Caliban is cursing Prospero and his daughter Miranda.

3)In my opinion I believe Prospero treats Caliban this way because Caliban disrespected him by attempting to rape his daughter. Prospero must also believe that Caliban has a lower status than him as he was once the duke of Milan.

The Monster
I thought about it and now realise that both Caliban and Prospero are monsters. Caliban is just evil towards Prospero because of Prospero taking his rightful island. Prospero is no better than Caliban because they pretty much have the same story.Prospero’s brother kicked him out of the kindom and he had become evil from that