Today's session contained feedback in response to the recent mock exam. The results were okay but we clearly have some work ahead of us. I am particularly concerned with issues relating to CLARITY. A small group of students are underachieving because they are not constructing a precise and coherent critical argument. Students received an exemplar essay before the class discussion considered THE ROMANTIC movement in English Literature. Reference was made to Blake's JERUSALEM and the idea that the romantic sensibility embraced the world of the imagination rather than the logical world of Science. Students need to indulge in research to develop an understanding of THE ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY as this will not only inform the understanding of TROTAM but also student understanding of Jez Butterworth's JERUSALEM, which is our coursework text.
Click on links below to access a brilliant BBC documentary series:
Liberty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwRXlSgiSQ
Nature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liVQ21KZfOI
Eternity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6mefXs5h9o
The Coleridge work has been incredible! Genuinely superb. KEEP IT UP.
HOMEWORK: Read the last three sections of TROTAM and synthesise some of the resources posted to BE CURIOUS.
Richard Holmes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpRXMEMFXzg
Here is a JERUSALEM documentary that examines the evolution of Blake's poem. This is part one of three. Not great visual quality but this is an essential resource for our coursework:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvuvw8hiSk
On Tuesday night I will begin THE CLARITY CLUB. This session is open to all students but particularly the two or three students who continually have the phrase 'LACK OF CLARITY' scrawled on their written work. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. If we can address this issue I am sure students in the Clarity Club will flourish and push forward from the D/D+ grade.
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