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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.

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Sunday, 23 November 2014

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

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

A2 Comms - Objects of Desire

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












Tuesday, 28 October 2014

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: