Today's lessons UPDATED

EXTENSION ALL STUDENTS


READ CHAPTER ONE OF THIS TEXT FIRST


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwqZRopnG_XKU1BRU1NhMWsyYTA



QUESTIONS TO GUIDE YOU


How did Marx and Engels view literature?


What is the sociology of literature?


What did Matisse believe about all art?


What is 'original' about Marxist literary criticism?


Why is art part of the superstructure?


What, according to interpretations of Conrad's work, was the crisis facing the Western bourgeois class?


Which four elements make up the levels of 'unity' which Marxist criticism focuses on?


In his letter Joseph Bloc, what did Engels want to deny about the base and superstructure?


Why does Marx believe we enjoy classical Greek literature?




Having completed your work on Larkin you now need to make the improvements I have suggested. Abi Preston has already done this.

You need to complete your analysis of another text we have studied in class, using the marxist literary lense - Sophia Browning has already done this.

You need to select 6 further Larkin poems from his Whitsun Weddings collection and read these. You then need to select 3 to use with The Cool Store to answer the following question

Larkin's poetry cynically portrays a society in which the proletariat "are deluding themselves" rather than presenting a hopeful picture of a society where "they [go] beyond the limits which society sets for them" To what extent do you agree with this statement? Make close reference to FOUR Larkin poems.


DEADLINE WED 25th



TIPS

Research Larkin's life and poetic style
Use the Whitsun Weddings collection to find 3 further poems.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/180154
Read This Be The Verse to see some of his views on nature and nurture

B grade students
Read the following
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwqZRopnG_XKei1VTmpZWE1TaUU/view?usp=sharing


Larkin Folder
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0BwqZRopnG_XKMTVQS0JMNTRyU3M

Text List. Marxism. UPDATED

Prose:
Any short story from The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter.

The Bloody Chamber (short story) by Angela Carter

The Courtship of Mr Lyon (short story) by Angela Carter

The Tiger’s Bride (short story) by Angela Carter

The Lady Of The House Of Love by Angela Carter

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

1984 by George Orwell

Poetry:
STUDENTS MUST STUDY A MINIMUM OF EIGHT POEMS BY THEIR SELECTED AUTHOR. FOUR POEMS MUST BE CITED IN THEIR ESSAY

The Pied Piper Of Hamlin by Robert Browning

Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems - Shelley (ft Ozymandius)

If you have any other text you particularly wish to explore, please speak to me about your idea, first.

Next:

• Think about which text you might like to explore (remember, you have to explore some poems for one essay, and a prose text for the other, so this may affect your choice);
• Read it, if you haven't already.

Links to purchasing/securing texts:

Raymond Williams - Keywords This text offers a guide and explanation to every term you'll need to write a critical essay

Terry Eagleton - Ideologies


You have Angela Carter's stories already.

Work to complete Monday 16/11/15

1.  Email blog address to Mr Smith
2.  Complete your essay on The Cool Store and post to your blog
3. Select one other text studied and analyse it using the Marxist lense. Post to blog

All resources from all lessons can be found here

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwqZRopnG_XKZXpoTXBIQ29DTUU

Setting Up A blog

WHY? - You need to comprehensively research and plan your chosen author, text and area. I can then read you work, give immediate feedback and enable you to make rapid progress. You will be able to access your work from anywhere with an internet connection (as will I).

HOW? - You will write blog posts which track every stage of your research from identifying the text you will analyse to summaries of critics, context and theories

WHAT? - You should write blog posts linked to the Marxist lens questions.

WHERE? You can find much of the information online or via my teaching Drop Box. A link to this will appear soon.

WHEN? I expect you to blog twice a week and aim to submit a first draft of your coursework by Christmas.

DEADLINE 1 - COMPLETE THE COOL STORE 16/11/15

DEADLINE 2 - SELECT A TEXT 16/11/15

TODAY


You need to complete the following tasks:

1.Set up a blog using Blogger.

The address needs to be yournamelclit1516.blogspot.com

IN THE HIGHLY UNLIKELY EVENT THAT THE COLLEGE NETWORK DOESNT ALLOW BLOGGER TO WORK, SKIP TO NUMBERS 5 AND 6 AND PUT YOUR WORK ONTO A WORD DOCUMENT

e.g. johngreenlclit1516.blogspot.com

2. Email me you blog address


3. Set up accounts in the following:

Scribd - used to embed text documents.
Slideshare - used to embed powerpoint. This may be blocked in college,you can create the account at home.

4. Complete the essay task from The Cool Store PowerPoint

The Cool Store - PPT and tasks

Using the PPT chose to answer the essay question on slide 11 or the question on slide 14 Deadline is Wed Nov 18

Word limit 1250 - word minimm 850

 

The Cool Store lesson 2 from Mr Smith

The Large Cool Store - Poem text

The Large Cool Store

by Philip Larkin

The large cool store selling cheap clothes
Set out in simple sizes plainly
(Knitwear, Summer Casuals, Hose,
In Browns and greys, maroons and navy)
Conjures the weekday world of those


Who leave at dawn low terraced houses
Timed for factory, yard and site.
But past the heaps of shirts and trousers
Spread the stands of Modes For Night:
Machine—embroidered, thin as blouses,


Lemon, sapphire, moss—green, rose
Bri—Nylon Baby—Dolls and Shorties
Flounce in clusters. To suppose
They share that world, to think their sort is
Matched by something in it, shows


How separate and unearthly love is,
Or women are, or what they do,
Or in our young unreal wishes
Seem to be: synthetic, new
And natureless in ecstasies.