Monday - Period 5

We will complete our film study today by responding to the question:

How does the film, The City of Ember, rely on the dystopian genre and the hero's journey in telling its tale.  Support your answer with specific text references.


Picture This Homework due Monday Week 5 - 'Water Fever' by Jenny Mounfield (p221)

Monday - Period 2 & Tuesday - Period 4

Short story final copy to be submitted in this lesson.

Continuing our examination of extracts that represent the characteristics of dystopian literature, we will look at the 'hero' element of 'The City of Ember'.  As well as examining scenes containing Lina and Doon, we will also consider the 'hero's quest' and how it is evident in this text.

Week 2 Lessons

This week our lessons included:

Monday - in this lesson we looked at the characteristics of dystopian fiction and then made links to where these characteristics exist in the film, 'The City of Ember'.   We also looked at elements of dystopias generally (see mind map below).

Wednesday - today we concentrated on the back story contained in the film by examining the extracts that showed the builders establishing Ember in order to protect mankind from destruction.  You should have made notes from the deconstruction that identified how the filmmaker achieved the back story.

Thursday - today we returned to the writing process for our short stories.  You peer-marked another students work to provide them with feedback on all elements of their draft.  At the conclusion of the peer marking you received your draft, the comments from the peer marker, and comments from Mrs Lans.  Using the feedback on your draft you are not to revise and edit your text to produce your completed version.  This is due for submission in class on Monday, 1st August.

Wednesday - Period 1

CINDERELLA INC: Given the loss of a number of lessons recently (Long Weekend, Polding Walk, Staff Development Day) we will look at Christopher Anvil's short story, 'Cinderella Inc' through a reading and discussion. This story speculates on how we as a society view surgical attempts to create physical beauty. By the end of this story you should have recognised a number of familiar elements that occur in contemporary society and how Anvil has projected they may develop in the future. We will also look for the conventions of the science fiction genre as used by Anvil.

To finish the term you will compose a paragraph that explains how the word 'corruption' is relevant to your wider reading of Jeanne du Prau's 'The City of Ember'.  We will spend the final two lessons viewing the film adaptation in anticipation of our film study starting Term 3.