YEAR 12 LESSON ONE [14th Sept 15]: Homework

The opening session was a very general discussion relating to the purpose of literature and moved into a specific critical discussion of ANDREW MARVELL'S 'To His Coy Mistress'.
Below is a reading of Marvell's famous poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDJwycpIfRQ
You Tube contains an industrial skip full of resources that will help you with AS Literature  and one of the assessment objectives that drives the course demands that students 'EXPLORE LITERARY TEXTS INFORMED BY DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS'. This demands that students are aware of how literary critics have responded to the poem. Here are some resources to help students access this assessment objective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUR7sNTDolY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyw6FzQ33U

We also looked at Shakespeare's Sonnet 17...here is a reading by David Tennant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6Of-pwKP4
Interesting version offered by Devon Glover. What do you think of this interpretation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOKwVwwfQWM

HOMEWORK: Students need to read the poems that I gave you in the opening session. You will be writing about one of these poems in your first essay. In Monday's session we will be revisiting TO HIS COY MISTRESS and we will be discussing WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S 'DAFFODILS'. Students need to arrive at the lesson with an understanding of Wordsworth's poem that will allow us to have an informed class discussion. Here is a link to a reading of the poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnyV2YWsto
Wordsworth stated in another of his poems that 'The World is too much with us.' How can this comment relate to Daffodils? What do you think?

The key question that should drive your critical consideration needs to be:
'HOW DOES THE AUTHOR USE LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND FORM TO SHAPE
MEANING?'

STUDENTS ALSO NEED TO BE READING THE GREAT GATSBY as this is one of our examination texts. Students need to be reading this classic novel.

See you on Monday. Bring some informed opinion. All comments need to be supported with specific textual reference.