Oppression in 'The Handmaid's Tale'

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakficzZiY2xkVWZadGM/view?usp=sharing

Blanche DuBois - Victim or Antihero?

Thanks to Lauren for finding this article on Blanche...
http://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-2/seigle/

Frankenstein Podcast - Is the creature the "greatest bore in literature"?

Hello YR13s,

As promised, here is the link to the podcast we listened to in today's lesson:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0w66

Here are the notes that I made as we listened, in case you missed any...

Mrs Stroud

Critical Theory

Hello YR13s,

Below are some links to chapters on critical theory you may find useful for the next draft of your coursework:

Liberal Humanism

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakfiUXhJTWZOWllBRDg/view?usp=sharing
Feminism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakfibUJXYi02dnNudWc/view?usp=sharing
Marxism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakficGE2d1prRW5xTE0/view?usp=sharing
New Historicism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakfiZkxaQlR3ZmczRk0/view?usp=sharing
Psychoanalysis
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakfiVEJSVXBtMTYtdmM/view?usp=sharing

Please use the template below to submit your next draft:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakfiVjh1RUYzNXRiYUk/view?usp=sharing

Remember, this is a really exciting opportunity to explore the text you have chosen in sophisticated and academic detail. Your coursework mentors are there to guide you - make sure you keep in regular contact and attend your weekly meetings.

Good luck!

Mrs Stroud

Welcome to A Level English YR12s

Hello Year 12s,

Welcome to A Level English.

We have all had an enjoyable first week getting to know you, discussing the concept of poetry and delving into the minds of Hamlet and Sigmund Freud.

As promised, here are the log-in details for JSTOR, where you can find hundreds of academic articles on the texts you are studying:

Username: HarrisAcademy
Password: researcher

A few reminders:

• Please bring your folder (with all of your notes) to every lesson.
• Please make sure you have read Ernest Jones' essay on Oedipus and Hamlet for next week's lesson.
• Your first reading group on 'A Streetcar Named Desire' will be on Wednesday 27th September in M136. You must have read up to the end of scene 5; I will supply the biscuits!

You've started the year with enthusiasm and dedication to the subject - keep it up!

Mrs Stroud

The Great Gatsby - Chapter by Chapter Notes

Hello year 13s,

You might find these notes helpful...

https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/2gatsby-notes.pdf

Mrs Stroud

Tom Hiddleston in 'Hamlet'

Hello year 12s,

I hope you are enjoying the summer so far. There is an exciting opportunity for you to see a Kenneth Branagh production of 'Hamlet' (starring Tom Hiddleston) but to get tickets you have to enter a ballot.
You can do this by following the link below:
https://www.rada.ac.uk/whats-on/hamlet

Good luck!