Dear Upper Sixth, Here are my thoughts on Goblin Market from a Marxist perspective. They are far from complete, but should give you something with which to get started. goblin-market-sample-asses...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/goblin-market-a-marxist-perspective/
When you first begin to use critical theories such as Marxism in your essays, AO2 can easily be forgotten. You are having SUCH a nice time considering all the ways in which Marxist theory can be ...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/aqa-spec-b-integrating-ao1-and-ao2/
They’re also for half-term homework. But for fun, too. Complete at least TWO of the following essays by Tuesday 4th November. Click on the title of the poem for a link to the text. 1. ‘Goblin...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/three-litb4-essays-just-for-fun/
Here be the notes from today’s lesson on Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods’. Just a note: the responses are cumulative. (You’d need to all 3 things to get a Band 6…) The only other sound’s...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/moving-on-up-the-bands-litb1-ao2/
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_07.htm From the clever people at the University of Bristol. (See – it’s not just you lot that can’t tell your colons fr...
The novel’s opening establishes a highly personal, intimate first person narrative voice that has distinctive qualities. It is very much a speaking voice, with fragmented sentences (‘Because ...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/how-does-hosseini-begin-the-story-of-the-kite-runner/
Two great things are happening tomorrow. 1. It’s payday. 2. The shortlisted poems for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize will be announced. This made me think, why don’t you have a look at them and ...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/upper-sixth-litb4-coursework-idea/
Lots of you are writing about metaphor for your LITB4 coursework. You simply must watch this lovely 5 minute animation on the art of metaphor. I love it! http://ed.ted.com/lessons/jane-hirshfield...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/attention-upper-sixth/
It’s not often you get something for nothing, but here is an example of exactly that: a free lecture on comedy at the Museum of London in a couple of weeks. Why not go along? It’s exactly the...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/attention-lower-sixth-a-free-lecture-on-comedy/
The following notes are adapted from Alexander Leggatt’s chapter on Comedy and Sex, in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy, ed. Alexander Leggatt, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ...
https://msnorth.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/much-ado-about-sex/