Tag Archives: Taming of the Shrew

This page contains all the essential and useful information you may need to be fully prepared for Saturday’s assessment. Your best preparation is to take the following action: Read your previous assessment thoroughly and evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses (as well as my comments on your work) Read the new question (embedded in this post) […]

The best practice for next week’s assessment is to practice analysis and writing. You will get a response from me within 60 minutes of publishing anything on your blogs. You can read the detailed task outline here An online version of The Taming of the Shrew     My guidance as to how to prepare […]

Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily. You whoreson villain! will you let it fall? Strikes him KATHARINA Patience, I pray you; ’twas a fault unwilling. PETRUCHIO A whoreson beetle-headed, flap-ear’d knave! Come, Kate, sit down; I know you have a stomach. Will you give thanks, sweet Kate; or else shall I? What’s this? mutton? […]

Unfortunately the film screening of “10 Things I Hate About You” has had to be postponed until next Tuesday at 4:30pm Please set this time aside as seeing this modern riff on The Taming of the Shrew with introduction by Mr Waugh and Ms Turner will enhance your learning immeasurably.  

Stolen directly from Ms Turner’s Year 11 class blog, here is a link to the full BBC modern interpretation of Taming of the Shrew. We watched the beginning of this in class today, and reflected on the representation of Katharina. The questions to ponder (remembering that the GCSE question is about the ways that writers […]

Make your research meaningful using the Know-Wonder-Learn triad. One of the perennial problems with student research is the preponderance of poor quality work, cut and pasted from the first three sources in Google, with little or no development. This so-called ‘research’ is practically useless. In order to avoid this, and to make a research project […]

We enjoyed much hilarity where the boys gave advice to a hapless guy called Petruchio who was determined to marry a strong-minded Katharina who had no interest whatsoever in consenting to doing so. Some highlights of advice were from Jamie who suggested that Petruchio kept in touch with Katharina and after enquiring about some things […]