AS Comms - 3 week return: Shreddies

AS Language & Literature - Welcome to A2!

What do you now wish you'd done differently this year? What are you glad you did - what worked well for you? Share your wisdom with the new students who will be starting in September by clicking below:

If I'd known then what I know now...

Curious about what an A2 Language and Literature exam paper looks like?
Click here and select Unit 3 (ELLA3) to have a look.

AS Comms & Culture - Welcome to A2!

What have you learned about yourself as a student this year?
Share your wisdom with next year's AS students by reflecting:

If I'd known then what I know now ... 

Click anywhere on the wall to leave a comment reflecting on what you would do differently with the benefit of hindsight.

Fancy seeing what an A2 exam paper looks like for Comms & Culture? Click here and select a Unit 3 exam paper.

A2 Lit - Lear character questions

1. 'A man more sinned against than sinning': Do you agree with this estimation of Lear's character?

2. 'Edmund represents no more than the inevitable fight of the young to claim the world from the old.' Discuss this viewpoint.

3. 'Unlike some antagonists, Edmund has a motive - and it's a motive which secures the sympathy of the modern audience.' To what extent do you agree?

4. 'Goneril and Regan's role in King Lear is purely to enable Lear's downfall. In themselves, there is no development or interest.' Do you agree?

5. 'It is Edgar's journey, not Lear's or Gloucester's, which is most significant for the play.' To what extent do you agree?

6. 'The Fool acts as a dramatic mechanism in the play - he is both the antithesis of Lear and the mirror image of Lear.' To what extent would you argue that this is a valid viewpoint?

{We have already looked at a question on Cordelia in class.}

Good luck everyone!

A2 Comms: Objects of Desire / Marxism

Click here to watch a Ted talk about the workers' experience on the production line in China: excellent revision/extension for Objects of Desire and Marxism.

AS LANG/LIT: All My Sons - Watch these clips before Friday!

Click here to watch lots of short clips about All My Sons. Absolutely essential viewing to help you to prepare for Friday's exam.

A2 Literature - King Lear revision walls

'The play presents the inevitable struggle of the young to overthrow the old'

'The real point of Cordelia's death is precisely that it is pointless.'

'King Lear is above all a play about power, property and inheritance.'

'The energy of the play is directed against society: there is anger, and a desire to strip away all clothing, to show that people are equally natural and equally sinful'