Your Summer work can be found here
https://englishatlc.com/2016/07/03/a-level-english-literature-summer-work-for-incoming-year-13/
Monday 11 July 2016
Transition Work - Final Week
During the final week you need to complete the following tasks:
Research Tasks
1. Read the interview with Terry Eagleton and answer the following questions in detail.
(a) What, according to Eagleton, is the role of literary theory when analysing texts?
(b) What does Eagleton believe makes a good English student?
2. Read this article from the British Library and answer the following questions.
(a) When Keats’ admirers praised him for thinking ‘on his pulses’, what did they mean?
(b) When did Keats die?
(c) In which year did the first biography of Keats appear?
(d) Where did Keats originally train before giving it up for poetry?
(e) Which two social upheavals influenced Romantic poets like Keats?
3. Read this article from the British Library and then summarise, in your own words, what makes a Shakespearean tragedy.
4. Read the article from emagazine below, and then writer half a page in response to the following statement: ‘Simon Bubb argues that Iago’s lack of humanity is what Shakespeare is most interested in sharing.’ To what extent do you agree?
5. Read the task sheet titled The Canon (link below). For each of the authors listed, write the title of at least one of their works and the genre.
Monday 4 July 2016
Iago. A closer look.
Click the image to access some key critical thoughts about Iago.
- Read through all of the ideas as a class. Ensure we understand what each critic is saying about Iago.
- You will be split into pairs. You will each be given two of the critical quotations to work with
- Imagine the quotation is the starting point for a whole-text question about Iago, and you are going to have to respond 'to what extent do you agree with this view?'. In your pair: create the outline of an argument in response to the critical quotation. Your argument must:
- Have a clear angle/viewpoint
- Track through the play chronologically, explaining which quotations you would use to support your groups' argument (make sure you track right through to the end of the play)
- Address the possible counter-argument (BRIEFLY)
- Conclude.
Type up the outline of your response either using Word of PowerPoint, then upload it to your blog using Scribd (for Word doc) or Slideshare (for ppt).
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