Jeff
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Post by Jeff on Apr 14, 2005 23:34:21 GMT
Hi, I am new to this and just love Jeff Wayne's Musical.
I have used the recording in my English classes as part of my science fiction module. I find the Sci-Fi a great way to teach simile and metaphor. These are some example of simile I point out;
"Like the sun through the trees you came to love me"
"Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away"
"...like summer lightning"
and for metaphor there's no better than;
"my life will be forever autumn"
Has anyone else used, or heard of the Jeff Wayne recording being used in the classroom?
Jeff
Canada
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Post by Gnorn on Apr 15, 2005 0:25:26 GMT
Hello Jeff, and welcome to the site :-)
No, sadly not, school would have been a better place for me if they did...
Anyhoo, Forever Autumn is a great lost-love song...
I hate plain love-songs...
-Gnorn
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Apr 15, 2005 23:25:59 GMT
Hello Jeff
I can only think of 3 times for me at school.
1/ During English class. We all read parts of chapters.
2/ During music, even when the teacher tried to learn how to play 'Eve Of The War' on the piano. I just about got a chord pattern together.
3/ During art class, when the teacher played an excerpt of the album to give us ideas of what the machines were like - not really good if you had already seen the album cover before hand ;D
H_C
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Post by Stewymartian on Apr 16, 2005 5:17:16 GMT
My 3rd year junior school teacher, Mr. Blythe, did WOTW as a project with the whole class (this would have been when I was about 9-10 years old, back in 1982-83). He used the Jeff Wayne album, playing us one side at a time over the 4-5 weeks that we did the project. He read us excepts such as the events on Horsell common, and the death of the curate. He even used the narration at the start of 'eve of the war' as a dictation exercise. I think Mr Blythe must have been a serious fan. He seemed to know the book in extreme detail. At one point he traced the route of the narrator in our atlases, showing us where Horsell common was and where the Thunderchild battle would have happened. I read the book for the first time almost immediately afterword, though I was already familiar with the work from hearing the JW album when it first came out. It really was an example of exellent teaching, with the teacher using the work to cover points on history, science as well as english language and literature. Those four weeks are some of the most memorable of my entire time at that school.  |
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Post by artillerymanfan on Apr 24, 2005 19:46:21 GMT
In the english classes i attended/attend, we never did the WOTW, heck, i only found out about it in 4th grade, and when i listened to it, it rocked! I got the book out of the library later on and read it over and over again. So I never studied it in school, but i 'studied' it at home, and now, i listen to the tape of it alot. I've already listened to it like 2 or 3 times today.  sad they never teach us anything fun in school. |
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Post by Watto on Apr 26, 2005 16:24:14 GMT
My 3rd year junior school teacher, Mr. Blythe, did WOTW as a project with the whole class (this would have been when I was about 9-10 years old, back in 1982-83). He used the Jeff Wayne album, playing us one side at a time over the 4-5 weeks that we did the project. He read us excepts such as the events on Horsell common, and the death of the curate. He even used the narration at the start of 'eve of the war' as a dictation exercise. I think Mr Blythe must have been a serious fan. He seemed to know the book in extreme detail. At one point he traced the route of the narrator in our atlases, showing us where Horsell common was and where the Thunderchild battle would have happened. I read the book for the first time almost immediately afterword, though I was already familiar with the work from hearing the JW album when it first came out. It really was an example of exellent teaching, with the teacher using the work to cover points on history, science as well as english language and literature. Those four weeks are some of the most memorable of my entire time at that school. Man, I wish I had a teacher like that...  |
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Post by Luperis on Apr 26, 2005 21:44:27 GMT
I reviewed the book in lessons once.
I also have memories of trying to pursuade a group of people I was doing a Drama devised piece on 'war' with, which had to be influenced by books, poems, music, history etc. to use the eve of the war as a music piece.... My mission was unsuccessful - I just got called crazy/insane (among other things). It would have been fun, though....
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Post by MikeH on May 2, 2005 8:05:15 GMT
I retook one of my english GCSEs in college, with the aim of getting a better grade than I'd got at high school. I did a bit of work on the WOTW then, but I'd read it before purely as a fan, having listened to the record since I was about 8. In fact, my (until recently) only copy of the book was "borrowed" from the high school library.
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sad they never teach us anything fun in school. 
