Homework Thursday 6th November

Welcome to a new unit and a new term.

We are working on 'East End Tales' by Fin Kennady. 

‘East End Tales is a series of nine stories inspired by photos and new articles from local papers in east London. It was written for the Mulberry School for girls in Tower Hamlets’ Half Moon Young People’s Theatre Scriptworks project. The story was developed by a group of Year 10 Bengali girls throughout weeks. It was created through improvisation and written exercises under supervision of Finn Kennedy. The best work was extended and worked on to get the final piece, which was then written in lyrical style by Kennedy.’

The stories range from short contemplations on the nature of east London, through to longer tales of domestic violence, the drudgery of low-skilled jobs, petty crime and high density living. 

Today we read the text.

Homework:

1. Write a response to the text. 

• What did you think of it and why? 
• What is the play about? 

You were asked to write notes as we went through - type these notes onto your blog.

2. What was your favourite tale? Why?

3. At the start of the session you were asked about what you thought of the East End.

• What did you know at the start of the session? 
• What knowledge did you develop by the end of the session?

4. What did your group do when you were asked to explore one of the tales? 

5. Start a research post on your blog. You will need to keep adding to this research over the term. 

You need to research the East End.

• Find out about the history of the East End.
• Research some events that have happened recently in the East End.
• Research some of the events from the text.

There will be some more points to research next week...