A2 Comms - Marxist analysis of fairy tales

Click here to read a Marxist analysis of fairy tales and click here to read a Marxist fairy tale! Both are worth a  read and will help develop your understanding of Marxism further.

AS Comms - Johari & Concentric Circles

Click here to read how one individual applies the Johari window and Roger's Concentric Circle Model to her own taste in music.

A2 Lit: The Bluest Eye

Here is the interview we watched in class, where Toni Morrison explains her motivation for writing The Bluest Eye.

This is one of the best sites I have found online, which offers essays and support material on The Bluest Eye: click here.

A2 Comms: Marxism

We talked today about Marx's Communist Manifesto, which you can take a look at by clicking here.

AS Comms - The Pygmalion Effect

The original study behind the idea of the 'Pygmalion effect' is explained:

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.