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Mr Mithen is STILL the Grand Chief of Awesomeness!

Mr. Mithen

Hear Shakespeares Insults!

At this brilliant site you can immerse yourself in Shakespeares language, see the words that he created and even listen to some foul-mouthed insults.

Listening to insults as legitimate homework?  Bliss!

http://www.ciconline.org/bdp1

Graffiti The Library!

Yes I really mean it!  Please come and Graffiti the Library!  PROVIDED…you use the following link to print out your graffiti and bring it to the Library.  This program works like this, you read a book or a story and tell us a little bit about it, you then draw your graffiti in the space provided, this can be anything that relates to the story.  Then tell us a bit about your graffiti, print it, and give it to Miss Berrisford to be displayed in the Library!

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/graffiti/

Get Graffiting!

Free, online Study Guides – Recommended by English Teachers!

Looking for notes on that troublesome English Text?  Or are you reading a book and just don’t understand what it’s trying to say to you?  Why not take a look at these sites?  Chances are that they will have something to help you understand the themes in certain texts.

Pinkmonkey.com   -     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp

Sparknotes                     -        http://www.sparknotes.com/

Poetry Competition for 6th Form

Below is a link to the main page for the 2008 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition.  This is a poetry competition open to anyone in 6th Form.  The theme for the poetry is CHANGE and the first prize (as if the prizes meant anything!) is £3,000.  Why not have a go at writing your own poem on change, hand it in to the Library and we will enter it for you!  So why not have a go?

http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/prize/index.html