Resources: 

Poems for pre-study (links below) 

Drama texts (information below) 

Prose text of your choice 

Activities 

Task 1 

Please purchase and read the opening Acts (at least) of the following two texts: 

1.“Othello” – we recommend the Cambridge School Shakespeare version of the play [1]

2. “The Duchess of Malfi” – we would like you to have a paper copy that you annotate as  you read. We recommend the New Mermaids edition by John Webster, edited by Karen Britland [2] 

You will need copies of these texts for your first week of lessons.

3. Write a 300-500 word response to the following question: How does Shakespeare present Othello in the opening Act of ‘Othello’?

Task 2 

Preparatory task – analysing poetry – read and annotate poems 

Print, read, and carefully annotate the following poems, which will be used in the first  week’s lessons. You can also purchase and annotate the collection (Selected Poems: Christina Rossetti - Penguin Classics)

1. ‘Echo’

 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50289/echo-56d22d3f77136

2. “Twice”

https://genius.com/Christina-rossetti-twice-annotated

3.’Maude Clare’

https://genius.com/Christina-rossetti-maude-clare-annotated

4. ‘Remember’

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45000/remember-56d224509b7ae

5. ‘Up-hill’

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45002/up-hill

Task 3

Read a Detective/crime novel of your choice and write a 300 word (approximate) review of it.

Work to be submitted to: 

Submit your response to the ‘Othello’ question via email to Mrs Holton-Gaus at lholtongaus@stgeorges.herts.sch.uk  and bring your other work to your first lesson. 

[1] the play is also available online at 

https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/othello/read/

[2] Also available free online at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2232/2232-h/2232-h.htm