Thursday 21 March 2019

GCSE POETRY RESOURCES for Y11

Guardsman Tromans is the soldier in REMAINS. Armitage used his experience to construct the poem. The narrative voice adopted by Armitage is presenting Tromans' experience in Iraq in 2003.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DHWqppktFo
Akala...Ozymandias..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWbo2x5lnA
Akala...London..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0GMqqEuus
British Library...Blake's London..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0yBrI24XM
Akala..The Prelude..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGn1Ilx_3o4
John Agard..Checking Out Me History..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFV_06_UidI 

Images of War created by Don McCullin...














































This is not McCullin but is an extremely powerful image.


Wednesday 20 March 2019

POWER and CONTROL ORWELL..

GRETA THUNBERG..

This is her TED talk..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QxFM9y0tY
ITV interview..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bu2136AJUg
Greta...School Strike..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgadosxS6Q0
Global strike..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_QkjieLmw

Malala Yousafzai
Trailer of Doc..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE5gSHJkusU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXvs1vwiD0M

Cable Street 1938...Oswald Moseley..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozndljflUgU
Think about this in relation to Orwell's Animal Farm...

WAR IS PEACE
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY...