Hello New Y13!

Hi Y13
Right, I've thrown you in at the deep end and got you stuck straight in to critical analysis. For your homework, you need to leave a comment on this post. You'll see it just below.
You need to write 200words of analysis on one of the sections of Donne's elegy you looked at today.
Any problems then please let me know.You can leave a comment or contact me on my school email.
Quite a short post this time, but next week's, after the analysis lesson, will have more information.
Ms 

Read this carefully.

Hey Y12

If you would like information on your collected exam result, please email me directly.

Other than that, I hope you've had a wonderful holiday. Sorry this hasn't been posted before. I was assured that the house I was staying in had wi-fi, but this was not true (quelle horreur!). Time to make preparations for the A Level now though.. Before we come back, read Jane Eyre. You can read this online or you can buy the book for just a couple of pounds.We will not be studying this, but it is essential for background.

You also need to have a copy of Wide Sargasso Sea. Other than that, it is an independent reading course. We'll look at some of the themes that emerge in WSS and you can select novels accordingly.

My suggestions for further reading, a couple of short stories: The Yellow Wallpaper  and The Awakening.

That should be enough to keep you going!

Let me know ASAP if you have any problems.

Ms :)

Essays please.

Nearly there!

Helllo Y12

Not long to go until the summer holidays!

Because of Activities Day, Wednesday was our last lesson of Y12; I feel it passed rather unceremoniously. I hope that you've enjoyed your learning in English over the last year. It is a steep learning curve from GCSE; the move from AS to A2 is another curve. I think you've all done very well and I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching you this year, which has flown by. I am very much looking forward to see you progress in Y13 and see you move into life beyond school. 

It is essential that you are able to learn independently. The split should be 40% / 60%. 40% input from me; 60% input from you. You need to learn to work independently to prepare for University.

You need to have completed essays to me by next Wednesday morning. If you're going to Florence, that should be before 3am on Saturday. If you've given me a decent chunk of work, I'll get that back to you ASAP. Look at the AOs I gave you. Critical vocab from the lesson will be up as a link here as soon as possible too. 

To be very clear, you are writing an essay (1200-1500 words) looking at National Trust from a Marxist critical perspective. This will be part of your coursework. It will also be useful to get to terms with writing about a text from a critical perspective. 

Let me know if you've any problems.

They'll be another post with a summer reading list so do not check this in September!

Ms :)

Please ensure you bring your coursework to the lesson tomorrow to work on..! This should be an electronic copy. Email it to yourself, email it to me, use a USB etc. Just make sure you bring it!

It is nearly the end of term and then we can all have a break. A reminder that this isn't the time for holidays and watching video lessons; we need to work on our A Level English until the end of term when we then have a break. I know the temptation is to sit back now, believe me, I feel that too, but we need to power through to the end! I'd also like to point out that government cuts mean that you have reduced teaching hours so every second counts...

Right. Lecture over! Last week we looked at historical context, an Assessment Objective of course. The document for this are available ein the Student Shared/ Ms Caldwell/ Y12 English. You can access this via Barracuda.

Your homework is to have at least 900 words of your first draft of your essay:
An analysis of National Trust by Tony Harrison and an evaluation of how it could be related to Marxism. 

Everyone should have this, even if you have been away.

Email me if you have any problems or questions.

BTW: something very weird has happened with the formatting of this post - please ignore.
Ms

National Trust

A Cornish Tin Mine

Hey Y12

This is a bit late - sorry.

In this week's lesson, where you were all present so no need to go over everything that we did, we did a close analysis of National Trust and considered Marxist interpretation of the poem.

We'll develop this understanding next lesson when we look in detail at the context.

For your homework then I would like you to do the same as last week: write a paragraph about an extract from the poem form a Marxist perspective. This should be much easier after last week's lesson. You do not need to sign in you can leave the comment anonymously (as long as you can prove to me that the paragraph is yours). Once you've done these homeworks you've got two excellent paragraphs for your course work. Let's get these posted ASAP!

In next lesson we will look in detail at the context. (AO4)

Let me know if you have any problems.

Happy birthday btw ES!

Ms :)