The aim of today's session was to explore the textual possibilities of the Anthology Coursework. Students will have to select a poem or short story through which they will display their textual understanding. Students need to decide which area of the Anthology they will be attempting: CANON or METAPHOR?
Students were offered work by Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney before considering the work of Katie Tempest.
Students need to choose the text carefully as this coursework assignment will be 20% of the final A2 grade. The focus of this session was to illustrate the possibilities of this task. We discovered that Steph 'likes Bob Marley' and Kate E is not afraid to sing in public.
HOMEWORK: Read the Anthology that I constructed earlier this year. Read the notes from the official Anthology. Read my metaphor sheet. In the next session we will deconstruct some poems and talk about essay structure. If students ignore this reading homework WE will all be very bored on Friday. STUDENTS NEED TO HAVE DECIDED UPON THEIR COURSEWORK TEXT WHEN NEXT OUR LIVES COLLIDE.
Good luck to Kate and Sophie. Hope you both pass the DTest on Thursday.
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