Higher: "Hotel Room, 12th Floor" Roughcast

This is very much a work-in-progress, but hopefully it will be of some use...

I'm working on a Podcast (at the moment it's more of a Roughcast!) for the Norman MacCaig poem "Hotel Room, 12th Floor". The Podcast highlights some of the central concerns of the text. There is also a walk-through of the first stanza. The full Podcast will cover the entire poem... when it's finished! It might help you with your revision (for Thursday!) Click here to download the file.

S. Stothers

Higher: MacCaig PEARs

Here are the PEAR paragraphs you completed in your groups for 'Hotel Room, 12th Floor' and 'Brooklyn Cop'. I've included the appropriate Critical Essay tasks and, where able, credited you for your efforts ;) If you recognise an anonymous paragraph as yours, email me.

I've left the paragraphs pretty much as they were when you handed them in. I ran a spell check through them but, other than that, they're your own work.

PEAR
Point
Evidence
Analysis
Relate to Task

(Section Four of the Critical Essay Podcast talks you through PEAR.)

S. Stothers

Higher: Hotel Room 12th Floor

Here's some files we used whilst revising Norman MacCaig's "Hotel Room 12th Floor":

The poem with no annotations
The poem with stanza 1 annotated
The poem with stanzas 2 & 3 annotated
An amazing picture.

(The files are all in Microsoft Word format)