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A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens most famous historical novels. It deals with major themes of duality, revolution, and resurrection. Throughout the novel, Dickens...
A Christmas Carol is the most famous and heart-warming festive story of them all. Written in 1843, Dickens wrote his novella in response to British social attitudes towards...
Our week started with a superb Monday Magic Moment delivered by Head of Geography and teaching and learning lead in Humanities and Social Sciences Miss Dunsby focussing on...
Between January and March 2021, 8 students from Bushey Meads School joined their English teacher, Mr Carter, and Dr Ian Cushing from Brunel University London in conducting...
This is the second article detailing the experience of our A Level Literature students as they venture into the realms of online learning. This week we hear from students who have...
David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to his vocation as a successful novelist. It is the...
The English Faculty is always looking for ways to broaden the range of experiences and opportunities available to students to enhance their learning. One strategy has been to...
You know that situation you can sometimes find yourself in when you just can’t find the right… oh, come on what is it…umm… Word! Don’t you just hate...
Year 7 students are currently studying Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. Taking place in Messina, Italy, our year 7 scholars have discovered a diverse range of...
Last Tuesday lunchtime, Miss Collins hosted her first creative writing club session in LRC3. The turn out was a soaring success, with a classroom full of spirited students...
A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens most famous historical novels. It deals with major themes of duality, revolution, and resurrection. Throughout the novel, Dickens presents the hardships of each social class during the French Revolution. He interweaves the intensely personal dramas of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but highly regarded English lawyer, as they become entangled through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner.
From the calm streets of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine. ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’ Why not read the book to find out more…..
