BRAIN FOOD FOR ALL.

AS and A2 students might want to peruse some of the resources below. Watch. Listen. Synthesise.

John Cooper Clarke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qN9pduox0

Bertrand Russell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJ3sqkdCRE&feature=related

Gore Vidal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKilMhR-X48&feature=related

Ray Bradbury: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzD0YtbViCs

Martin Amis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi8CLGqOAIg&feature=related

Philip Roth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7mjsNLNzbc&feature=related

Paul Auster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4I0h0kNH4M

Imtiaz Dharker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBzWmCi6ps

Simon Armitage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7pFC8hxN4&feature=related

More Simon Armitage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvFcbedyQ0A&feature=relmfu

Germaine Greer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CITBPjJCU9o

Scroobius Pip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWrMGXwhFLk

Linton Kwesi Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9OpJYck7Y

Bill Hicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvs2g5Nj0NI

THINKING SHOULD ALWAYS BE ENCOURAGED.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

HELLO AS LEVEL STUDENTS 2012/13......

The AS Level Literature course is straining to begin and here is some information for the folk who have decided to read AS Lit this year.

Mr. Stevenson's AS students will be reading THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini, the AQA selected poems of W.H AUDEN, and the play THE CARETAKER by Harold Pinter.

Mr.Richardson's AS students will be reading THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fitzgerald, THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by S.T.Coleridge, and the play JERUSALEM by Jez Butterworth.

WE are not sure who is in which group as yet but when the dust has settled and the AS roller coaster creaks forward, these are the texts that students will be confronting at BGS.

We hope all students have had a wonderful summer, despite Michael Gove's GCSE insanity, and we can't wait to start messing with your head...in a good way...obviously.

See you all soon.

NOW THEN A2 FOLK 2012/13..NEARLY TIME TO RETURN....

Now then Literature freaks. We hope you have had, and continue to experience, a wonderful summer. Next Wednesday the BGS A2 course will begin and here are the set examination texts that you should have devoured since our last collision:

Mr.Stevenson's A2 students will be reading WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte and MACBETH by ShakeyBill.

Mr.Richardson's A2 students will be reading FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley and DR.FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe.

A2 students will be expected to produce two pieces of coursework that explore texts selected by the student. This will consist of two novels and a poem or short story. The two pieces of coursework will form 40% of the A2 grade with the exam providing 60% of the final A2 grade.

See you next week. Feel free to e-mail AS or MLR if you have any Literature related queries.

MLR will begin the A2 intellectual journey of literary delights with a consideration of T.S.Eliot's THE LOVE SONG OF J.ALFRED PRUFROCK. Students will be exploring how Eliot uses metaphor to shape meaning. Furthermore, students will be expected to identify the thematic nature of Walton's letters at the beginning of Shelley's Frankenstein and discuss the techniques used by Shelley to construct an engaging introduction to this classic novel.

See you soon Lit people.