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The CLASSICS pages! Hi - your BIG challenge over the latter part of Term 2 and into Term 3 is to read a "CLASSIC" novel - one written BEFORE 1950! This assignment will take some time and persistence ... The assignment sheet is here: Get started early, and since much of the 'assignment' written work will be in the form of a WIki page - here - you can start as soon as you like!



There are several parts to this assignment - all [can be] terrific fun! 1. READ the book. Some of them ARE challenging, that's true. Shakespeare's plays (which you **could** do) were written 400 years ago, and the way we speak has changed, since then! I DO recommend that you find a film version, and watch it - but it's important that you will be able to note the differences between the film and the book - what couldn't "fit" into the film? What changes of plot or emphasis can you find? AS YOU READ, keep some notes - about the characters, or unusual words, or aspects of life "back then" that have changed radically, or predictions that were made that have come true (or stil might!). This is your reader's journal. You can do this ON your Wiki. 2. Set up your Wiki page. First register on Wikispaces. Then, **accept** the invitation I sent you to join the **Year 9 Classics WIki**. Find your page - and edit it, adding in whatever information or links you wish. Images can be added. 3. There are TWO writing tasks: FIRST - a "time-travel" story, where you insert yourself into your story; and SECOND, a scene you script and perform with a partner (who interviews you) as a character from the novel. If several of you all read the same novel, you can script and 'act out' a group scene.
 * And then you're done!**