IB English

Reminder: Your review of 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is due in tomorrow (Thursday). HERE's another example of a personal review of the novel.

AS Communication & Culture

Following on from our discussion of advertising, it's worth reading the press surrounding THIS new film.

A2 Communication and Culture

Another song idea for Kallum's podcast HERE
Phoebee here's an extract from THIS Guardian article:

On some level, all reality show judges can be swayed by human emotion. Have a decent enough sob story and you're guaranteed a shortcut to the X Factor bootcamp stage. MasterChef has its "passion test", where points are essentially awarded to the contestant who can repeat the words "fire" and "determination" the most in a single minute. Lord Sugar even let Michelle Dewberry win The Apprentice because she mentioned she had a bit of a rubbish childhood

Karen THIS is relevant to your podcast
Rihanna might be able to use some quotes from THIS
Nathan THIS might be useful for a few soundbites
Sharayne - more celebrity fighting
Kamron please read THIS
Harmoni THIS is relevant to your project on British holidays
Chantelle and Paige: an intelligent account of a relatively recent celebrity event

A2 COMMUNICATION & CULTURE

A creative coursework piece has emerged on YouTube - worth watching as it shares many themes with the topics some of you have chosen:

A2 LITERATURE

Below are the film clips which will be most useful to your coursework projects: