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This is my teaching blog for classes of A Level Literature, Language & Literature, Communication & Culture and IB English. Please find regular course updates, useful links and extra resources below, or click on the name of your course for more information.

Monday 30 January 2012

A2 Literature

A series of relevant articles for our study of Dreams From My Father (Significantly, two of these articles are by bestselling novelists - Zadie Smith and Colm Toibin):




A2 Comms

Some more research ideas:

Serifat: HERE
Wunmi: HERE
Beth: HERE
Robyn: HERE
Gigi: HERE
Medina HERE

AS Comms and Culture

As you start to decide upon the content and style of your own audio-visual coursework piece, you might like to watch some projects from other Comms students around the country. They are easy to find on YouTube, start with this thoughtful piece on life as a female footballer:




AS Literature

Enrich your knowledge of Mary Shelley's life and the context of Frankenstein by reading extracts from THIS text online.

IB English

As preparation for your upcoming appointments, click on the following links to deepen your understanding of your chosen works...

'Love in the Time of Cholera' HERE
'Madame Bovary' HERE
'Perfume' HERE

A2 Language & Literature

Start your contextual research on our second coursework poet, Sylvia Plath, by watching the documentary below:

Thursday 12 January 2012

A2 Communication & Culture

Robyn and Bridie, the sentiments of your case studies are expressed pretty well in this song:


and similar views are explored in THIS article

Gigi (and possibly Victoria) should look HERE

Medina THIS could help you

Satveer try THIS

Wunmi THIS is from 2003 (possibly the peak of Burberry's popularity as a brand)

Beth have you seen THIS ?