Friday, 17 September 2021

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



Thursday, 9 September 2021

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



Thursday, 21 January 2021

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: