A2 Literature - The Whitsun Weddings & Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Whitsun Weddings

 

 

 

 

 

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

Part 1

 

 

 

Part 2

 

 

 

 

Part 3

 

 



AS COMMS - Reminder: no lesson tomorrow

Hi - just a reminder that I am out at a Comms & Culture meeting tomorrow so there is no lesson. The work in place of the lesson is to work on your scripts: aim to have them finished (draft) for our next lesson on Thursday. See you then.

A2 Literature - plans for the comparative essay

Your questions:

Essay plan 1: Expectation v Reality

Essay plan 2: Struggle

 



Essay plan 3: Truth

 

 

 

Essay plan 4: Isolation

 



 



A2 Literature: Philip Larkin documentary

Part 1

 

 

 

Part 2

 

 

 

Part 3



A2 Comms - coursework links

WATCHING

Surveillance:

Celebrity Big Brother
CCTV
Rebellion against CCTV
CCTV in schools
Banksy - One Nation under CCTV
Analysing One Nation under CCTV
Text messages used to warn Ukraine protesters - current news story

Pleasures of the look:

Weave
The case for Afro
Black men and hair
Tom Ford
Dove
Chanel
Analysis of Chanel advert
Female beauty & advertising
Representation of 'black beauty'
Beauty & ethnic minorities
Advertising and ethnicity
How women look at women
The male gaze


OTHERNESS


Media representations of black boys
Black people and crime
Ethnicity and crime
Black boys and stereotypes in the media
Mark Duggan verdict
Stephen Lawrence: the legacy
Why I wear the niqab - and why I took it off
The niqab - comment piece
What women who wear the niqab think of the debate



THE SONG

The problem with Band Aid
The charity single
Do they know it's Christmas?
Band Aid Backlash
Express Yourself - NWA
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Buffalo Soldier
Disagreement in hiphop
Hip hop - authenticity

Exam dates 2014

Toads - Philip Larkin: Literary Allusions

Extract from Paradise Lost (John Milton, 1667)

'Him there they found
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve,
Assaying by his devilish art to reach
The organs of her fancy, and with them forge
Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams;
Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint
The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise
Like gentle breaths from rivers pure, thence raise
At least distempered, discontented thoughts,
Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires,
Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride.'

 

 

Extract from The Tempest, 4.1 (Shakespeare)

Prospero:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.