GRETA...

 

Speech at Austrian World Summit..July 2021..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eQwAi2U18

Speech..Youth 4 Climate summit in Milan 2021..

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

I think these THREE films on the IPlayer are essential viewing. I think they need to be shown in ALL schools.

GRETA THUNBERG: A Year To Change The World.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p099f5jj/greta-thunberg-a-year-to-change-the-world-series-1-episode-1

 

THE MUSIC of V...Tony Harrison..

 

The coal in the photograph above is known as SHILBOTTLE COBBLES....

Herman Darewski...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6Qo0PrUEA&list=PL1YBeOI62FT9O-ZpQ-Gxko8x2UE8qCocC&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjB46HmP9Q

Alban Berg...LULU...THIS OPERA IS INCOMPLETE..Berg died before completing the final act..Tony Harrison's wife is Teresa Stratas.. an operatic soprano singer famed for her version of Berg's LULU..This explains the line..' Shillbottle cobbles, Alban Berg, high D lifted from the source that bears your name,..'

I think this section of the poem with Harrison UNITED with his wife, listening to music, and enjoying the heat of a coal fire is quite a significant moment..WHAT SAY YOU??

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

Here is the Alban Berg  LULU suite...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=025dWp9OVYA

HOW IMPORTANT IS MUSIC IN HARRISON'S V? What is the symbolic significance?

In a previous lesson I referred to VAUGHAN WILLIAMS and The Lark Ascending being a pice of classical music that very often makes me cry..and I'm not sure why!! LEND IT YOUR EARS..Read the You Tube comments...Incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8

I also mentioned the SEX PISTOLS and how when I first heard their album NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS in 1978 I found it terrifying and exciting. Here is the track that inspired the fear and engagement...I had never heard music like this before!!! I also include the classic GOD SAVE THE QUEEN that was banned from the radio but still made it to number ONE in the UK charts. I think V is a SEX PISTOLS of a POEM! 

Holidays in the SUN...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ah1JM9mf60

God Save The Queen....

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

In a recent lesson I also mentioned how much i love the music of Bjork..MIGHTY MUSICAL MAGIC..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4XrAF-Yc8

YEAR 13...Contextual resources for Harrison's V...

 

ORGREAVE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRmDLD089M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2jH53e6_jQ

In 2016 Channel Four News looks back at Orgreave...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZoaR1AxBE

The Miners' Strike..Channel Four News..2014..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA-76QeiuSQ

THATCHER talks about the Miners' Strike...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhsl0QHSDWE

The Miners' Strike..Were the Army at the ready? Channel Four News..

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

Thames TV documentary linked to Picketing and Police tactics during 84 Miners' Strike..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGeICaYnuo8

Documentary linked to 1972 Miners' Strike...Classic documentary..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gFhxhDdxnY

SKINHEADS....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLHnoiGpyF0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4pZlP6YtE  [ i can only apologise]

Clockwork Orange...seriously..in the 1970s some of the early football hooligans adopted the dress style of 'THE DROOGS'...funny old world eh?? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtRGeyznv7k

CLOCKWORK ORANGE opening scene...

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

Rival Gang Fight...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuzFLNpKen0

LINKS TO ALL MY TONY HARRISON RESOURCES...

https://becuriouslit.blogspot.com/2019/09/tony-harrison-resources.html

FOR Y12..SEPT 2021..FIRST SESSION..

 

SO..ARE THESE TEXTS EXAMPLES OF CREDIBLE LITERATURE?

WHAT IS LITERATURE??

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LITERATURE?

Hollie McNish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2z-Cd3luqA&t=28s

John Cooper Clarke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4fiRFhC-4

BENEFITS...FLAG..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsJjKqTR3Y

Maya Angelou..Still I Rise..:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0

Imtiaz Dharker..Blessing..:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skwo_Wv7Exc

CHALLENGING PEOPLE WITH POWER..

Sometimes people with POWER make horrific decisions and need to be challenged...Think about these examples in the context of Orwell's ANIMAL FARM...

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-57124276

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56604467

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/apr/16/children-who-organised-pimlico-academy-protest-could-be-expelled

RESOURCES for Y12 LIT..MAY 2021

 

       CAN ART CHANGE the WORLD?

https://becuriouslit.blogspot.com/2019/01/can-art-change-world.html

https://becuriouslit.blogspot.com/2016/11/year-13-monday-28th-november-2016.html

COLD WAR STEVE...Social and Political Protest???? John Heartfield??

BANKSY...

AMANDA GORMAN....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/20/amanda-gorman-poem-biden-inauguration-transcript

BENEFITS.. FLAG..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsJjKqTR3Y

SLEAFORD MODS...JOBSEEKER...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEYYI1ii0AU

ART AS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROTEST...

WHAT SAY YOU?

SOPHIE SCHOLL...

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57008360

POETRY....

 Maya Angelou....STILL I RISE..

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

John Agard...HALF-CASTE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDQf2Wv2L3E

Imtiaz Dharker..HONOUR KILLING...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04_yMEoecE

BLESSING...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skwo_Wv7Exc

Imtiaz Dharker...discusses Blessing....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g44WplTChA

AMANDA GORMAN'S INAUGURATION POEM...Jan 2021.

So the ignorant regime of the vile fascist is at an end. Here is AMANDA GORMAN'S poem from the US Presidential Inauguration  yesterday. This is a wonderful example of Social and Political protest writing.

THE HILL WE CLIMB.

SOAK IT UP.

BBC article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKxaq9Yi8Cc&pbjreload=101

CBS News article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePiZc5yP7KA

Article from The Guardian: 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/20/amanda-gorman-poem-biden-inauguration

FULL PERFORMANCE OF THE POEM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp9pyMqnBzk

TEXT OF POEM:

AQA Notes linked to the 'SOCIAL and POLITICAL PROTEST' exam texts.

 

YEAR 12 HARD TIMES related post...LIVE LESSONS..

Now then folks. The LIVE LESSONS are going okay with minimal technical problems and only some slight 'cat feeding' issues providing a barrier to learning. OBVIOUSLY, i have provided a LOT OF NOTES linked to DICKENS' novel and I expect ALL the class to be synthesising the content of the notes and considering the commentary that I have been offering students in the LIVE LESSONS.

The contribution of ROBYN and LEX is tremendous but I want to hear MORE VOICES. Next week I expect every student to offer at least ONE  'unmuted' response.

Next THURSDAY we will be considering the TWO QUESTIONS:

• 'HARD TIMES is an angry novel full of optimism.' To what extent do you agree?
• 'In HARD TIMES, Dickens presents Coketown as a place of unrelenting oppression and misery.' To what extent do you agree with this view?

We will be considering content for the 'angry/optimism' question in the first session and moving into the second question in the second session. One of these essays will be your HOMEWORK...SO you need to consider the possible content for these two essays. I will be expecting a response from ALL students. I expect students to show me that they have been reading my notes, reading the novel, and forming their own critical opinion. I DO NOT EXPECT SILENCE. Consider this a polite educational challenge.

If we have time I will be exploring the character of Sissy and why she is such a significant and symbolic character. For the past FOUR sessions I have been offering a lot of content. NEXT WEEK i expect your contribution to be informed and textually precise. REMEMBER...the big issue with our written work at the beginning of the course was the lack of clear analysis linked to textual reference. We have improved this area of our written work and this improvement needs to continue.

Today we examined GRADGRIND'S TRANSFORMATION and the significance of HARTHOUSE. I believe that some of our contemporary politicians could live inside the pages of a Dickens novel.

Look at Michael 'Wiggy' Fabricant, Jacob Reese-Mogg, and Sir Desmond Swayne! Incredible. Research their voting record. Reese-Mogg is a CHRISTIAN but has consistently voted to reduce benefits for the disabled, continually votes against raising benefits for the poorest people in our society, votes against raising taxes for people earning over £150 000 per year, and voted against financial support for 16/19 year olds still in education. He continually supported the UK leaving Europe whilst at the same time moving some of his own business concerns to Dublin to continue to trade with Europe without restriction. He voted against providing free school meals during the school holidays for children who qualify for free school meals during term time. These children belong to some of the most economically vulnerable families in the UK. He is a millionaire and son of an ex-Tory politician. ARE OUR POLITICIANS JUST AS REPULSIVE AS HARTHOUSE AND HIS BROTHER...???? Would Dickens attack the politicians responsible for guiding our existence?? How would Dickens view Reese-Mogg??? 

Jacob Reese-Mogg and British Fish....Fish are happier for being British....er...see clip below. Whilst we were discussing Reese-Mogg, he was making this comment in Parliament.

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

Piers Morgan interviews Matt Hancock...begin watching 13 minutes into the interview...Wow..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQEWlZWhP0