A2 Comms - is Marxism on the rise again?

Click here to read an article written a couple of months ago about the consequences of many people's disenchantment with Capitalism.

Interested in finding out which way your political views lie? Click here to take the political compass test.

A2 Literature - coursework texts for this year

Welcome to A2 Literature - I will be teaching you the three texts for the coursework piece (a 3000 word comparative essay). You will need to buy The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (for link to Amazon, click here) & Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (for link to Amazon, click here). We will also be studying poems by Philip Larkin. I will give you copies of the individual poems that we will be studying - if you want to buy the text that the poems come from then it is called Collected Poems by Philip Larkin (for link to Amazon, click here.) You need The Bluest Eye asap and Death of a Salesman for the end of October. Please let me know straightaway if you are having problems getting the texts.

A2 Comms - What is Capitalism?

Click here for a good, accessible explanation of what Capitalism is. Even if you think you know, it's always good to read someone else's explanation of it. You might also want to watch this clip of American High School students discussing their understanding of what Capitalism is - in 1948:

How does this compare to how you would explain Capitalism today?

AS COMMS - WELCOME

Welcome to AS Communication & Culture at RUTC - we hope you enjoy the course!
There is a course text for AS, which you might like to buy - click here for details on Amazon.

In our first few lessons, we will be exploring the idea of identity & self presentation. Some really interesting ideas about how we see ourselves and what influences our perception of ourselves can be found in this short film by Kiri Davis:

A2 Comms - advice from last year's students

IB English - final drama text for 2012-13

Hello everyone,

Hope you're having a great holiday & enjoyed the Olympics!
Our final drama text will be:

Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka
Isbn 978-0-413-69550-5

We will be studying this text second, after Death of a Salesman.

See you in a few weeks,

Clare

IB English - texts for next year

Here we go then - texts for next year:

Please buy, read & make notes:

Pablo Neruda: twenty love poems and a song of despair (ISBN: 978-0-224-07441-4)
Emile Zola: Therese Raquin (ISBN: 0-140-44944-2)

Please buy:

Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett - English version, not French!)

You don't need to read these in advance (although you can if you want - but don't give anything away to the class) but I would like you to read about the playwrights.

These two texts can be any edition. There will be a 3rd text as well, the title of which I will post later this week - I changed my mind once I saw what Chris had chosen.

Have a lovely summer - you deserve it after all your hard work this year,

Clare