A DIVIDED SOCIETY?

Tony Harrison represents Britain as a divided society that he hopes will become UNITED. Is our society as divided???? DO WE NEED THE PHILOSOPHY REFLECTED IN THE POETRY OF TONY HARRISON in 2018? Spot the rhetorical Q!

How posh is Parliament..Channel Four News..
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-qa-how-posh-is-parliament
48% of Conservative MPs were privately educated. 7% of population attend private schools.
FACTS on INEQUALITY IN BRITAIN
https://fullfact.org/economy/inequality/

Channel Four News clips
Aaron Banks is not an elected politician. He bankrolled UKIP.. Is this democratic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vZ17-5bbGA
Homeless film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu1EVZgN0_8
Brexit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsKuNSf4uQ
JOHN HARRIS' films for The Guardian are brilliant. Here are two that explore 'BREXIT'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB8GjRjV6oE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH0F0pzsivY
AUSTERITY BRITAIN..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yg8QaeBdNs
BBC..Universal Credit..Note the comments of ex-Prime Minister John Major.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45817897?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cn89m309ykvt/universal-credit&link_location=live-reporting-story
SKY NEWS...Universal Credit..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfhsjM9kBDQ
Prison crisis in UK..BBC Newsnight..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeFlGdPOQnA 
Minister for Suicide Prevention...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45804225 
https://news.sky.com/story/suicide-prevention-minister-joked-about-throwing-herself-off-beachy-head-11522855 
The working homeless...BBC article..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-44904638

Windrush? Grenfell? Boris Johnson and the Brexit bus?....Some Prisons in meltdown...School funding crisis...mental health provision being cut all over the UK due to austerity...WOWZA!

I don't want to depress any of my fine students but the government policy of AUSTERITY is an extremely controversial policy and has had a MASSIVE impact on the UK. Since 2010, council funding has been cut in the UK by 49%. The impact of this policy has been that local councils are struggling to fund resources for all kinds of services from bin collection to providing care for society's most vulnerable and isolated people.

I would love to provide some kind of balance. The government champion the fact that we have never had so many people in the UK in employment. The NHS and Education are receiving record funding.

POETRY Y10...Belated National Poetry Day...

METAPHOR POEM...

SCHOOL IS...
SCHOOL IS AUTUMN. Colourful and changes quickly.
SCHOOL IS MUSIC. Some great tunes but some melodies just give me a headache.
SCHOOL IS THE SKY. Vast and endless.
SCHOOL IS A BISCUIT. Sweet but has the potential to rot your teeth.
SCHOOL IS RUGBY. Tough, fun, challenging and occasionally painful.
SCHOOL IS....

Acrostic??
S
C
H
O
O
L

HAIKU?  A 17 syllable poem.
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables.....

School
School is a fine Tree.
Autumn provides its colour.
It will change with time.

Poetry
Contains strong language
Intellectual Self-Defence
Muscle For The Mind

PATIENCE KERSHAW...

This previous blog entry provides useful resources for Harrison's WORKING...
https://becuriouslit.blogspot.com/2017/04/year-13-mon-24th-april-17.html
Link to The Victorian Web...note Patience Kershaw's comments
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html 
Lord Ashley's Mining Commission in 1842..research required..
Brityish Library Resource..
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-child-labour-1842
https://spartacus-educational.com/Mines_Collieries_Act.htm

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE..The Danger of the Single Story...

This is a beautiful speech..soak it up Lit freaks...THE POWER OF THE STORY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg

Notes for Y13..HARRISON related..THE MINERS' STRIKE..

Remembering the 30th Anniversary of the strike...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzwATFfA1Lo&t=1s
Channel Four News..30 years after the strike...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA-76QeiuSQ
Celebrating Thatcher's death...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InfxZI4jZaQ
Thatcher speaking about the strike...look at the comments section...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhsl0QHSDWE
TV AM...ITV News..Mr McGregor..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8m0syu2N4 
BBC fail to admit editing footage from Orgreave to suggest miners started violence..Campaigners call for an apology...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-27893072 
BBC..footage of Orgreave..Note the voiceover....media bias??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2jH53e6_jQ

OTHELLO..Year12..SEPT 18..

The first couple of sessions have involved reading the opening Act of the play. Students need to be aware of the key moments in Act One Scene One/Two/Three and consider how Shakespeare represents:

• VENICE
• IAGO
• OTHELLO
• DESDEMONA

Students need to consider how Shakespeare is shaping the drama. Students need to be aware of the significance of Iago's soliloquy that concludes the First Act. Why is this use of dramatic form so significant?

Here are some resources for your delight....
What is Tragedy?..Here is an excellent and essential resource from the National Theatre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSr6mP-zxUc&t=69s 
Playing Othello...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cNOd1tUaaw
Playing Iago..Iqbal Khan's 2015 RSC production was the first to have a 'black' Iago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcCzk8aT8H8
Actors playing Iago and Othello in a NFT production discuss their roles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoCIwJn9Ic 
Performance history of Othello....National Theatre Resource..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrLvq1EcRH0
Kenny Branagh's Iago soliloquy at the end of the FIRST ACT...note the visual imagery..:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zbGMcsCtjg
I made this OTHELLO podcast for last year's Y13 as a pre-exam revision resource. Lend it your lugs:
https://soundcloud.com/fishymedia/othello-pod 


 

Tony Harrison resources for Y13..SEP 2018

My Tony Harrison podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/fishymedia/tony-harrisonthis-pen-is-all-i-have-of-magic-wand

First section of the film version of V from the controversial Channel Four broadcast. Navigate through the rest of the film from this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPutBM7zfv8&t=9s

This is a wonderful BBC Radio 4 documentary of V..SOAK IT UP:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW49WJ0F2HM&t=1064s
Harrison reading the poem on Radio 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7if44iVP3_I