AS Literature

Below is a list of useful Tennessee Williams websites (courtesy of eMagazine). Use these as part of your research into Williams - this addresses AO3 (other interpretations) and AO4 (Context):

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/

The Mississippi Writers Page is just that. This page belongs to the University of Mississippi and is thus understandably thorough and useful. It provides a good biographical introduction followed by a detailed bibliography in addition to links to Internet film productions of Williams’ works. This site is a good starting point if nothing else, the many photographs making it an interesting site to browse.

http://hipp.gator.net/scarplaywrite.html

This site belongs to the Hippodrome State Theatre in Florida. Usually I bypass such sites, but this one was particularly detailed, providing biographical information and accounts of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Perspectives. It offers basic outlines of characters and setting, poetic references and
discussion topics.

www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html

This site, entitled Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide, composed by Paul Reuben, has been included here because it offers a good oversight into the entire spectrum of American literature. Although the section on Tennessee Williams found in Chapter 8 is small, it does offer a detailed biography, an outline comparison of Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski, and some useful study questions. Worth remembering this site for future reference.

www.etsu.edu/haleyd/index.htm

This and the following sites take a more scholarly approach and all are worth a look. This site belongs to Dr. Darryl E.Haley of the University of Alabama. Here you can read his dissertation, Certain Moral Values: A Rhetoric of Outcasts in the Plays of Tennessee Williams. Although a very specific title, the subject matter appears to be interesting. The links on this page are also useful.

http://jackfritscher.com/tennessee

John Fritscher Ph.D. has produced this site containing his dissertation entitled Love and Death in Tennessee Williams. The site is well constructed, broken up into an introduction and six labelled chapters that one can dip in and out of. This attempts to place the works of TW into the broader picture of the ‘American Experience’. The themes of love and death are central to Williams’ works, particularly for A-Level study.

http://www.jackfritscher.com/Challenges_in_American_Culture.pdf

Fritscher has published a second of his works on this site, Popular Culture as Cyclic Phenomenon in the Evolution of Tennessee Williams. Worth a look but this is lengthy and challenging and not laid out well like his other site. Still, if you’re working along these lines yourself, there may be something here for you.

AS Comms

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 and A2 Literature

Login to Moodle and after accessing your course (AS or A2 Literature), scroll down  to the 'Gareth Watts' folder. There you will find:

AS Module 1 and Module 4.2: A Yates and Williams Research Pack
AS Module 3: A Frankenstein Study Guide
A2 Module 5: A Sylvia Plath Question Pack.

A2 Literature

Click HERE for an interview with Sylvia Plath. As you listen, take notes as her responses could be quoted in your coursework essays as (AO3) 'Other Interpretations'.

A2 Comms

In class, identify at least  one of the sources below which might be relevant to your project. Read / watch it and then provide an evaluation.

Giorgio (Cultural Mix in Football): http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20938573
Ellie (The Power of the Brand): http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_leberecht_3_ways_to_usefully_lose_control_of_your_reputation.html
Rose (Consumerism): http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2004/09/18/ten_commandments_lunchtime_feature.shtml
Kourosh (Commercialism at the Olympics): http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/29/dreams-triumph-commercialism-olympic-park
Lucinda (Consumerism): http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jun/14/collaborative-consumption?INTCMP=SRCH
Sam (Otherness and Gaming): http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2003/jan/20/heritage.artsfeatures?INTCMP=SRCH
Kristine (Consumerism): http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/aug/25/shopping.features?INTCMP=SRCH
Lina (Consumption): http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_case_for_collaborative_consumption.html
Chelsi (Football and commercialism): http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/jul/18/letfootballeatitself
Sarah (Otherness - Females in Comedy) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/05/television-panel-shows?INTCMP=SRCH
Amy (Consumerism): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20893400
Nikita (Otherness): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4611682.stm

AS & A2 Comms

Click HERE for a BBC 'In Our Time' special on the history of culture.

A2 Comms

Click here: http://gu.com/p/3ck3z for some interesting reflections on the slavery test you all took before Xmas

AS Literature

Frankenstein Reading Journal

Throughout our study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein your homework each week will be to:
1. Read one or two chapters of the novel
2. Read the relevant section of the Frankenstein Study Pack
3. Answer the accompanying questions in your exercise books.

How to access the study pack:
Go to the AS Literature page on Moodle > Scroll down to the folder labelled ‘Gareth Watts’ > Open (or, more sensibly ‘Save’ and download the pack to your own computer) the file labelled ‘Frankenstein Study Pack’ > Scroll Down to the appropriate page(s) as outlined in the plan below.

Schedule
Your exercise books will be checked regularly to ensure you are keeping up with the reading and activities. It is imperative that you complete this independent work – reading the novel outside of the classroom gives us more time in class for analysis, discussion and exam preparation.

This week make your reading focus / Read the study pack and answer the questions on / Complete this section by
Chapter Four / PDF Pages 27 – 28 (Study Pack Pages 20 - 21 ) / Friday 11th January
Chapters Five and Six / PDF Pages 29 – 31 (Study Pack Pages 22 - 24) / Friday 18th January
Chapter Seven / PDF Pages 32 – 33 (Study Pack Pages 25 - 26) / Friday 25th January
Chapters Eight and Nine / PDF Pages 34 – 37 (Study Pack Pages 27 - 30) / Friday 1st February
Chapter Ten PDF Pages 38 – 39 (Study Pack Pages 31 - 32) Friday 8th February
Chapters Eleven and Twelve / PDF Pages 40 – 41 (Study Pack Pages 33 - 34) / Friday 15th February
Chapters Thirteen and Fourteen / PDF Pages 42 – 44 (Study Pack Pages 35 -37 ) / Friday 22nd February
Chapter Fifteen / PDF Pages 45 – 46 (Study Pack Pages 37 - 38) / Friday 1st March
Chapter Sixteen / PDF Pages 48 – 47 (Study Pack Pages 40 - 41) / Friday 8th March
Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen / PDF Pages 51 – 52 (Study Pack Pages 42 - 43) / Friday 15th March
Chapter Nineteen / PDF Pages 50 – 49 (Study Pack Pages 44 - 45) / Friday 22nd March
Chapters Twenty and Twenty One / PDF Pages 53 – 55 (Study Pack Pages 46 - 48) / Friday 29th March
Chapters Twenty Two and Twenty Three / PDF Pages 56 – 58 (Study Pack Pages 49 - 51) / Friday 5th April
Chapter Twenty Four / PDF Pages 59 – 60 (Study Pack Pages 52 - 53) / Friday 12th April
Language / PDF Page 63 (Study Pack Page 56) / Friday 19th April
Themes and Motifs / PDF Pages 64 – 65 (Study Pack Pages 57 - 58) / Friday 26th April

NOTE: In some editions the novel is arranged into three volumes. As such, ‘Chapters 1 – 8’ refers to the 8 chapters in Volume One, ‘Chapters 9 – 17’ refers to the 9 chapters in Volume Two and ‘Chapters 18 – 24’ refers to the 7 chapters in Volume Three.