YEAR 12 LESSON ONE 11th Sept 17

Hollie McNish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2z-Cd3luqA 
Simon Armitage..POETRY IS A FORM OF DISSENT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvFcbedyQ0A&t=146s
KATE TEMPEST performing at Glastonbury:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzJUalxZYM
JOHN COOPER CLARKE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qN9pduox0 
I made reference to the poet IMTIAZ DHARKER in today's sermon. Click on the links below to hear some of her work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBzWmCi6ps 
IMTIAZ DHARKER..Honour Killing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04_yMEoecE 
THEY SAY SHE MUST BE FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2-OXfYETM 
We will be considering 'country' by Imtiaz Dharker in our next session.
Here is a poem by Charles Bukowski. I adore this poem. Consider this a gift from your English teacher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEm_lsRGdOI

The aim of today's session was to encourage class discussion and provide students with an introduction to the intellectual rigour of an A Level Literature lesson. As I stated, you have a lot of reading to confront before our next lesson.
Digest this resource...WHAT IS LITERATURE FOR?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RCFLobfqcw

HOMEWORK: Read ALL the material I gave you in today's session:

• The sheet relating to the purpose of Literature
• Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
• Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
• Maupassant's Was It A Dream ? 
• William Wordsworth's Daffodils

I also expect students to synthesise the links to the work of Hollie McNish and John Cooper Clarke. Can these two modern poets be considered to be as relevant as Wordsworth or Shakespeare? Do these poets have literary value? I expect all students to be armed with an argument when next our worlds collide!
The texts that I have introduced today will be the focus of your first A Level Lit essay. Remember...when you read any text, consider the following questions:

• What are the ideas/themes being presented by the author?
• Why is the author promoting these ideas?
• Who is presenting the ideas? What is the nature of the narrative voice? Why has the author selected this form of narrative voice?
• How are ideas being shaped to present ideas or meaning?

******THE QUESTION AT THE HEART OF THIS TASK IS

'HOW DOES THE AUTHOR USE LANGUAGE, STRUCTURE, AND FORM TO SHAPE MEANING?'

I thought the quality of the class discussion today was OUTSTANDING. KEEP IT UP.

See you on Thursday morning. If any student needs to contact me, this is my email:
m.richardson@beverleygrammar.co.uk