Welcome to the Literature As Stoodle

You will find lots of links to resources, lessons and suggestions for wider reading on this blog. Check the recommended reading bar to the right. Wider Reading is very important for your exam question, Section A: Contextual linking. This is where you will be given an extract to analyse and link to your wider reading on the Struggle for Identity.
The Struggle for Identity areas are : Gender, Class, Political, Social, Indidividual, religious and sexual.
One very, very useful text is the New Oxford Student Text which contains extracts of prose, drama and poetry as well as useful comments.
To get the best out of this Blog, click on the labels to the right which will group posts on the same topic. Also click on the links to other sites to improve your studies. You can download resources and save them to your own computers. You might even want to keep your own Blog.
Enjoy your course and check in regularly.
Mrs Sims
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Sunday 30 May 2010

More Revision on Carol Ann Duffy

I put together some stuff I found in a variety of places on the poems and more essay questions. It all looks good to me. At the very least , it will help you to add a few more annotations to poems and think about the anthology as a 'collection'.
I really hope you are all accessing this blog. The count of visitors is going up, but I think it might be other schools?



More Revision Notes

Friday 28 May 2010

Contextual Linking

Here are some nonfiction extracts and questions for extra revision for Section A of the exam.
Have a go.
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Non Fiction Extracts for Section a Practice

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Useful revision on Carol Ann!

This is an interactive power point and you will have to download it to make it work properly. Click on the red title to download from slideshare. Work through the presentation and it will help you group the poems and think about examination responses. I found this somewhere on the web, but it looks really useful. If I knew whose it was I would give them the credit. Try it! Happy revising...
Mrs Sims
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An essay locating Demeter as key to the collection

How would you grade this essay?
Use your mark scheme to give a mark out of 45
To what extent, in terms of subject matter and style, is Demeter an appropriate conclusion to the collection?


Duffy Essay[1]

Friday 7 May 2010

Grouping Poems

Download this chart and fill the information on themes and imagery for each poem in the collection. If you click on the title word "GROUPING", this will take to my page on SCRIBD where you can download the document in Word format.

Groupings