I found this article in Lapham’s Quarterly. It is required reading for anyone teaching or reading Huckleberry Finn for OCR: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rivalry-feud/loves-labors-lost Read More "On feuds: Twain is echoing real life"
Tag: OCR A level
Jerusalem returns
Later this month, Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem returns to the West End with a cast led by Mark Rylance who created the original Rooster Byron, and much as was feared when Burbage created all those great roles, we ask again: can …
What is so great about Gatsby?
My presentation for #litdrivecpd can be found here: https://litdrive.org.uk/remotecpd/what-is-so-great-about-gatsby I hope it is useful. Read More "What is so great about Gatsby?"
Thomas Wolfe: Unseen response
A model response to the Thomas Wolfe unseen 'The Far and Near' found here : 2 Passages for A level unseen practice. The passage opens with a description of the kind of Mid-Western setting which embodies the American Dream and the …
Racism and Gatsby: context
This is a shocking picture of the reality of the racism treated as normal in large metropolitan centres of East Coast USA at the time of writing of Great Gatsby. The novel is set in part in 1922 and we …
An article on Gatsby…
This appeared on the BBC website today: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210209-the-worlds-most-misunderstood-novel . Plenty of food for thought for A Level students. Read More "An article on Gatsby…"
Forbidden Fruit in Ibsen and Chaucer
I am welcoming the U6th back to the most bizarre Spring Term I recall by beginning to review 2 texts studied in the L6th: A Doll's House and The Merchant's Tale. Though we have no idea whether an exam will …
A level Unseen: Dos Passos – The 42nd Parallel.
My ideas as a response to this passage in OCR A level unseen format. The Passage: John Dos Passos - The 42nd Parallel (1930) The young man walks fast by himself through the crowd that thins into the night streets; …
American Dream?
This is a 15 minute talk delivered online as part of the school's JLx initiative. Short talks by staff members exploring an aspect of their subject which interests them. They should challenge and intrigue and do not seek to offer …
A level unseen from Diamond as big as the Ritz
This is a response to the passage below from Fitzgerald's short story 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.' JOHN T. UNGER came from a family that had been well known in Hades−−a small town on the Mississippi River−−for several …
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