Y13: Research task for Friday

Some useful links for your research on Friday.

Context
http://www.heckgrammar.co.uk/index.php?p=10726

Mary Shelley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
http://www.litcharts.com/lit/frankenstein/backgroundinfo

These sites are just a start for you. There is plenty of good stuff in the library if you prefer physical pages.

Y13: Comedy

Some additional reading for you on renaissance comedy.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/btd5030/renaissance.html

-Mr. F.

Y12: Blogs

Comment on this post, giving your own blog address.

Y13: Your essay title

‘Faustus is introduced in a way that prevents the audience from seeing him in any kind of a positive light.’


To what extent does the introduction of Faustus give a purely negative impression of his character?


I want to see evidence of planning. Hand in at end of the lesson and I'll collect it next week.

Go! Go! Go!

Y13: Research

Your blogging task for this week.

***Why was there tension between Catholics and Protestants in Renaissance/Elizabethan England? 100 words.***

Try looking here, here and here. There's loads of other stuff out there and a whole section in the LRC. (822.3 and 942.05)

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The year formally known as Y13 (Y14?): Well Done

A quick post to say a massive 'well done!' to all you lovely A2 students leaving us. Excellent results. I'm very proud of you all. Now, go out and spread your literary goodness around the world.

(Be sure to credit us when you're rich and famous.)

Mr. F.

Hotel Francis

My new venture.

Memorise

For those of you trying to memorise quotations and ideas for your exams, Joshua Foer has some interesting ideas that might help.

Good luck!

Y13: commedia dell’arte

www.delpiano.com/carnival/venezia/commedia-dell-arte

List the different characters from the Commedia Dell'Arte. Choose four of them and add their characteristics to your list.

Y13: Aamir

Aamir's blog

http://www.englishlitblogaamirrahim.blogspot.com/

Go comment

Y13 Holiday reading

This week, you will be mostly researching Laura Mulvey's essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'

Blog your thoughts.

Y13. Additional research

Something else for you to read

The Sinister Side of Fairy Tales

Y8 research

The website for your research is http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/language_timeline/index.shtml


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Y13 A Horror of Great Darkness

There's an interesting event happening in Haworth, hosted by the Bronte Parsonage Museum, in which you might have some interest.

There are lectures on the Brontes and early gothic influences; landscape and identity in Wuthering Heights; gothic in popular culture; a creative writing workshop; and a tour of a graveyard.

It needs to be booked in advance, but if you've an interest in any of this, or are thinking of continuing to study English at Uni, I strongly suggest you take a look.

Cost is £17.50 and you need to book with them in advance.

Please let me know if there's interest A.S.A.P. and we'll get permissions to be out of school organised.

Mr. F.

Y12: Aristotle

Additional reading on Aristotle's definition of Tragedy

http://www2.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/poetics.html

You must blog notes on:

Mimesis
The incentive moment
The denouement
The deus ex machina
and one other element of Aristotelian tragedy of your own choice

Y12: Revolutionary Road

A wonder ful example of a modern tragedy. Take a look while it's still on iPlayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019767t/Revolutionary_Road/

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Y12: Death of a Salesman Reading

Please read up to the top of page 21 in preparation for our lesson on Friday.