Y12 Lit – Double lesson and homework
Tuesday’s double. Come in and take a register. Please can one person bring this up to the English office?
Continue reading ‘Much Ado’ transferring notes from the back to the front, just as we have done before. Your aim is to develop your understanding of this difficult text. To help you understand the text you can also access sites that give you a translation of the text as you go along. Try http://nfs.sparknotes.com/muchado .
As you read the text, focus on the theme of power and note down examples and lines to help you build an understanding of:
• What different forms power can take
• Who holds power and why
• How this power manifests itself
• Who challenges those in power (and how)
• What perceived threats there are to those in power and how they try to protect themselves
Also consider how a modern audience may react to the expressions of power within the play. Do we have similar or different ideas about who should hold power and how it should be exercised?
Any links you can make to Othello will also be very helpful, as we will be working towards a comparison of the two plays. (See your handbook for more details).

We will be using your ideas in our next lesson.

Working with your designated partner, improve one paragraph of your essay and type it up here.

Apply your knowledge of contextual issues to create a short yet illuminating analysis of Yeats’ An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.

Follow this link to access the library catalogue for Teesside University.

http://lis.tees.ac.uk/

The library have also put together some web pages of freely available good quality online resources which you might find useful. If you go to the Library homepage again, select A-Z services – Web Sites (selected) – you can then choose by subject or choose ‘visitors’ for some more generic sources.

If you know what you want in time for Friday’s visit, you can spend the time skimming relevant essays / chapters and photocopying useful material. Remember to keep a copy of the titles and publishers in your yellow book as you will need this information for your bibliography.

Happy researching!

After today’s sessions you are all well aware of how much work and pleasure are involved in the study of English Literature and we are starting you on your quest for knowledge now!

Find a poem about WORK and use the frameworks to analyse it ready for September when you will present your findings.

Happy Reading!
Miss Colabella