A2 Literature - Useful Coursework Links

OCR have provided examples of Coursework Folders and a Coursework Guide for your 3000 word project (click on the relevant links)

AS Literature - Mrs Dalloway

THIS is essential reading for those of you studying Mrs Dalloway this year

AS Literature - Jane Eyre

THIS is essential reading for those of you studying Jane Eyre for the exam in the Summer

AS Literature - Frankenstein

THIS is essential reading for any student who's working on 'Frankenstein' for the exam this year

A2 Comms - Room 101

Please click on the link below a) because Room 101 might be an entertaining format you could choose for your podcast and b) 21mins into this episode a guest chooses the topic songs used in adverts and they discuss the pros and cons of this:

Room 101

A2 Comms Case Study Research Sources

Tasnim (Watching) : http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2011/03/13/cleaner-claims-security-guard-stalked-her-with-cctv-cameras/
Naasir (Watching) : http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29319557
Lucia: (Watching) : http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/mar/02/cctv-cameras-watching-surveillance

Daniel (The Song) : http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/13/blurred-lines-most-controversial-song-decade

Emily (Otherness) :
http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=en
Charlotte (Otherness) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iFl4qhBsE
Sarah A (Otherness) : http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/nov/19/does-the--have-a-problem-with-racism
Maryan (Otherness) : http://www.slideshare.net/smccormac7/ethnicity-and-crime
Jordan (Otherness) : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Miran (Otherness) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ogi1GIwAo

AS Literature - Critical Approaches

Here are our initial notes on three critical approaches to Literature:

 

 

 

... as we continue to consider our two coursework texts ('Revolutionary Road' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'), ask yourself which of these approaches you could adopt in your comparison.

AS Literature - Useful Coursework Links

Your exam board, OCR, have provided some Coursework Examples and some Coursework Guidance (click on the links)

A2 Literature - Sheridan

Click HERE for a useful resource on Sheridan

A2 Literature - William Blake

Click HERE for a useful resource on William Blake

A2 Literature - Andrew Marvell

Click HERE for a useful resource on Marvell

A2 Comms - Objects of Desire

How has Coca Cola used Christmas (and even shaped our meanings of Christmas) as a way of constructing the soft drink as a desirable cultural product?

Haddon Sundblom's early pictures of Santa Claus for Coca Cola in the 1930s were inspired by the 19th century poem Twas the Night before Christmas:

Group 1: 1995 advert
Group 2: 1997 advert
Group 3: 1998 advert
Group 4: 2014 advert

A2 Comms - Objects of Desire

Here are the posters created in class, responding to various statements on the cultural site 'Objects of Desire':

AS Comms - Intro to NVC

Watch this clip, from David Mitchell's 'Soapbox' series, where he reflects on how our NVC is often staged for a public audience:

A2 Comms - Rivers of Blood

Watch this to get a sense  of the impact of Enoch Powell's Rivers of Bloodspeech, and to hear an extract from the speech itself...


(Please note the title 'British Hero' is a deliberately provocative one!)

A2 Comms - Edward Said

Watch this clip to see Edward Said explain what influenced him to write 'Orientalism' and the key ideas within it:

A2 Comms - Colonial Attitudes

This advert for Pear's Soap is a great demonstration of colonial attitudes:

AS Comms - Your Last Facebook Post

This TED Talk might get you to reflect in some interesting ways in preparation for starting your AS Comms coursework this week:

AS Comms - Accents

Here's an article about how different accents are perceived as signifying different levels of power to different people: click here.

AS Comms - Body Language

This is a 'Ted talk' about the power of body language (NVC) in influencing ourselves as well as others.