1.2 Film essay
The Terminator
Important ideas:
· Sarah Connor’s transformation
· Technology is taking over
· Conflict
Important scenes:
· Big Bob’s diner scene
· Sarah gets stood up scene
· Sarah meets Kyle Reese scene
· Ginger and Matt get killed scene
· Factory showdown scene
· Mexico scene
Important quotes/evidence:
· Bright girly clothes at start
· Terminator’s black leather jacket and punk clothes
· Tech Noir, name of the club where the Terminator tries to kill Sarah
· “It doesn’t have feelings… It will not stop until you are dead!”
· “On your feet solider.”
· “You’re terminated f**ker!”
· Dark clothes at end. Bandana, glasses, jeans.
· Props, red jeep ‘Renegade’, gun, German Shepherd Dog
1.1 Written text essay
Sonnet 65
Important ideas:
· Time destroys everything
· Time destroys beauty
· Time destroys hard materials
· Nobody can stop time
· You can’t hide from time
· Beauty is fragile
· These are the problems of time
· Shakespeare’s poetry will capture beauty and make it live forever
· The poem will be the same forever
Language techniques:
· Symbols of hard objects (brass, dirt, stone, earth, iron)
· Symbols of nature (a beautiful flower)
Sonnet 18
Important ideas:
· Everything beautiful will lose its beauty or end
· All people will lose their beauty and die
· The solution to these problems is that beauty will live forever through Shakespeare’s poetry.
Language techniques:
· Symbols of nature (summer, blossom, sun)
· Symbols of things ending or dying (summer ending, blossom falling off the trees, sun going behind the clouds)
Do’s
· Show me what you know about the film or the sonnets.
· Support all of your good ideas with evidence.
· Write clear statements that say in simple language what the important ideas in the text were.
· Describe scenes, costume, characters actions and facial expression in detail. Give the colour, exactly what they looked like or what the person did.
· Choose your question carefully. Read all the questions before making your choice.
· Write your question out in full at the top of your essay.
· Read the question again at the end of every question to make sure you are answering it.
Structure
· Identify the most important words from the question and make sure they are used in your introduction.
· Make sure you use the important words from the question and the start and the end of every paragraph.
· Plan 3 different ideas that you will put into separate paragraphs.
Film example. 1st paragraph on Sarah at the start of the movie. 2nd paragraph on what she learns from Kyle. 3rd paragraph on Sarah at the end of the movie
Poetry example. 1st paragraph on the problem of time in s18. 2nd paragraph on the problem of time in sonnet 65. 3rd paragraph on the solution to the problem of time from both sonnets.
The Terminator
Important ideas:
· Sarah Connor’s transformation
· Technology is taking over
· Conflict
Important scenes:
· Big Bob’s diner scene
· Sarah gets stood up scene
· Sarah meets Kyle Reese scene
· Ginger and Matt get killed scene
· Factory showdown scene
· Mexico scene
Important quotes/evidence:
· Bright girly clothes at start
· Terminator’s black leather jacket and punk clothes
· Tech Noir, name of the club where the Terminator tries to kill Sarah
· “It doesn’t have feelings… It will not stop until you are dead!”
· “On your feet solider.”
· “You’re terminated f**ker!”
· Dark clothes at end. Bandana, glasses, jeans.
· Props, red jeep ‘Renegade’, gun, German Shepherd Dog
1.1 Written text essay
Sonnet 65
Important ideas:
· Time destroys everything
· Time destroys beauty
· Time destroys hard materials
· Nobody can stop time
· You can’t hide from time
· Beauty is fragile
· These are the problems of time
· Shakespeare’s poetry will capture beauty and make it live forever
· The poem will be the same forever
Language techniques:
· Symbols of hard objects (brass, dirt, stone, earth, iron)
· Symbols of nature (a beautiful flower)
Sonnet 18
Important ideas:
· Everything beautiful will lose its beauty or end
· All people will lose their beauty and die
· The solution to these problems is that beauty will live forever through Shakespeare’s poetry.
Language techniques:
· Symbols of nature (summer, blossom, sun)
· Symbols of things ending or dying (summer ending, blossom falling off the trees, sun going behind the clouds)
Do’s
· Show me what you know about the film or the sonnets.
· Support all of your good ideas with evidence.
· Write clear statements that say in simple language what the important ideas in the text were.
· Describe scenes, costume, characters actions and facial expression in detail. Give the colour, exactly what they looked like or what the person did.
· Choose your question carefully. Read all the questions before making your choice.
· Write your question out in full at the top of your essay.
· Read the question again at the end of every question to make sure you are answering it.
Structure
· Identify the most important words from the question and make sure they are used in your introduction.
· Make sure you use the important words from the question and the start and the end of every paragraph.
· Plan 3 different ideas that you will put into separate paragraphs.
Film example. 1st paragraph on Sarah at the start of the movie. 2nd paragraph on what she learns from Kyle. 3rd paragraph on Sarah at the end of the movie
Poetry example. 1st paragraph on the problem of time in s18. 2nd paragraph on the problem of time in sonnet 65. 3rd paragraph on the solution to the problem of time from both sonnets.