Rhys ap Gruffydd soliloquy

Continuing our study into the story of Gwenllian, today we wrote a stream of conscience style soliloquy as Rhys ap Gruffydd, upon hearing the news about Gwenllian's death.

We then recorded our soliloquies.



We then peer assessed our writing and made changes:

Homework 15.03.19

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Languagenut Welsh homework has been set

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The Astronomer's Sun - Film Literacy Project

As our 2018-19 Film Literacy project, using the Astronomer's Sun, has finished, I thought it would be a good idea to put all of the links to the blog posts in one place.

Firstly, here is a link to the short film that all of our learning experiences were based on:
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WEEK 1
WEEK 2
WEEK 3
WEEK 4
WEEK 5
WEEK 6

A presentation on the learning experiences from this project.

Gwenllian's Warrior speech

This half term we will be looking at the story of Gwenllian, the warrior princess. We have already tried to draw what we think she looks like from descriptions.

This week we have been trying to put ourselves in the position of Gwenllian, standing in front of her army, trying to rally them into battle.

We studied famous speeches by Barack Obama, JFK, Martin Luther King Junior and Winston Churchill to identify qualities needed to inspire people. From these we came up with a list of musts:

• Repetition
• Imperatives
• Emotive language
• Rhetorical questions
• A sense of togetherness

We hot seated (well, stood) as Gwenllian, shouting out some rhetorical questions.

The pupils then wrote their speeches, following these musts, with a few suggested extras to improve their writing: