Y13: Carmilla

Take a sneaky peak at this for an early example of lesbian themed vampirism. Note the intertextual links with the Carmilla of The Bloody Chamber and the action of The Lady of the House of Love.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10007/10007-h/10007-h.htm

Y11: Weather in the news

Have a look at these two articles

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/150858/Freeze-may-kill-60-000

What is the piece's political view?

Find 4-5 examples of deliberate language choice to promote the paper political views and explain the effect of each one.

http://careers.guardian.co.uk/careers-blog/when-bad-weather-is-not-a-crisis-harry-freedman

What is the view of this article? Does it have a similarly strong political viewpoint? With what is the article most concerned (try to read between the lines). Pick out 4-5 words or sentences that are used to promote this point of view.

Find similar examples of news stories about the weather. Find and explain ones with strong political views.

Look at what people have written in the comments section of each article. Is there a link with the views expressed and the style of writing used? If so, does this show a kind of prejudice in the writer or in the reader? How should awareness of these kind of issues affect the way we might read articles in the future?

Write up your findings and your opinions on it in 300-400 words (one side) using evidence from the articles

Y13: Dracula and female madness

Have a look at this site for an excellent insight into Victorian ideas of female madness. How do these relate to female character in Dracula, such as Lucy?

http://www.herstoria.com/discover/madness.html

Write a blog post if you think of anything interesting...

Y13 Blog links

Please post your blog address here under the comments section so that we can all link up to each other, if not done already.

Here are some to get you started:

emma'sgothicreadingjournal.blogspot.com
little-pink-pineapple.blogspot.com
fransgothicreadingjournal.blogspot.com
alzsgothicreadingjournal.blogspot.com
alislitblog.blogspot.com
alexsreadinglist.blogspot.com
amydislikes.blogspot.com

Please try to make a comment on two other people's blogs this week. This might mean you'll have to check other's blogs more than once. We'll see who gets most comments.

Y13: Extra reading

Might be worth a look, if you are interested...

http://watershedonline.ca/literature/frankensteindracula/taleof2monsters.html

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Y13: Our Friend Vlad

Have a look at this link as some background research for next lesson.

http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm

Don't get scared now!

Y13 Dracula reading

Take a look at the full article on the following link:

http://axwoundzine.com/twd.htm

Also, take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory