Two sound files of essays presented in my y13 classes today. There is a genuine attempt to engage with a range of literature and the whole is quite elegantly written. As we discuss the essays, several strong threads are created …
Category: OCR English Literature
Coursework checklist: IGCSE and beyond…
Coursework Submission Checklist. Tick each box to help yourself to submit coursework which hits the basic requirements of the task: Have you written the full title of the essay in the Header to appear on each page? Have …
Jez Butterworth and #metoo: Jerusalem context
Many thanks to Lucy Aitchison, a colleague teaching Jerusalem for the first time this year: I said in an earlier post that Butterworth's Jerusalem is a play creating its own context for the students. When I wrote that, my focus …
The age of loathing?
Bill Bryson, in his excellent book 'One Summer...1927' offers this on the era of the 'roaring twenties': I would love to show more, but it is worthy of consideration when we read Gatsby- so many deeply unpleasant people in a …
Judge Thatcher – saint or sinner?
Noticing that there are many new readers of this blog in the USA, I am asking for help with something which bothers me. Judge Thatcher in Huckleberry Finn is often referred to in notes and study material as helping Huck, …
Money in American Literature is the root of all evil… an essay submission
This is a presentation of an A level essay by one of the Upper 6th. He explores the question in terms of Huckleberry Finn (read as far as the Feud at this point) and Gatsby. Native Son is mentioned in …
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An article on F.Scott Fitzgerald: contexts for OCR A level
My thanks to my colleague Jonathan Pepperman for this. He had it all Alex Harvey Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David S. Brown Harvard, 424 pp, £21.95, May 2017, ISBN 978 0 674 50482 0 ‘I’d Die for You’ and Other …
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