A2 Comms & Culture: Cultural identity & globalisation

Explore how your own cultural identity has been constructed: to what extent are you a product of globalisation? (due Friday 16th November)

Read how a previous student answered the question you have been set for homework:
click here to read. The Guardian article which attempts to define globalisation can be found in full here: click here.

AS Lang & Lit: All My Sons

As we begin All My Sons in class, it mght be interesting for you to watch the film trailer to the original film version (1948) of the play:

A2 Literature - The Bluest Eye

Here is a lecture on The Bluest Eye delivered at Yale University  - it takes 50 mins to watch but is worth it:

And here is a link to an essay on race and beauty in TBE, which some of you might want to have a read of (it's not easy but have a go & see what you can take from it): click here to read.

A2 Literature - The Bluest Eye audio-visual presentations

Click here to watch some audio-visual presentations on The Bluest Eye made by some of my students last year. I will be asking you to do something similar after Christmas connecting our 3 texts...

AS Language & Lit: Spoken Word Framework

This is a visual framework for analysing spoken language which I found on another teacher's blog (here) - I think it's really good.

A2 Comms & Culture: Your slavery footprint

Find out what your slavery footprint is by taking this survey: click here.

The next step is to consider your own cultural map: list your top 10 cultural influences (e.g. type of music, clothes, favourite food, sport) and find out where they orginate from. Then I would like you to explain in your own words what you have discovered about the global influences on your own cultural identity: click here to read how a student last year reflected on this.

A2 Comms - Immigration

Watch this to get a sense  of the impact of Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech, and to hear an extract from the speech itself...