Lower 6th Gothic video documentaries

Students have made their own short documentaries on the nature of Gothic Literature. Take a look.

1. Gothic concepts and ideas.

2. Gothic villains in Literature

3. Presentation of females in Gothic literature.

4.What do we learn from the Gothic?

5. Nature, Setting and the Gothic

Gothic mini documentaries linking with The Picture of Dorian Gray

Gothic conventions used in Dorian Gray and other Gothic fiction 

Ellie Morley, AS Level Woodhouse, student discusses how to achieve grade A success in the summer exams

Picture of Dorian Gray student groupwork

Here is a selection of the work produced in class today. some of the audio commentaries will be placed on woodle.
Student Commentary of Chapter 4.

Student commentary of Chapter 5

BBC Radio 4 In Our Time Archive

The In Our Time radio Programmes Archive are now available. Here you will find a wide range of radio programmes covering all the literary periods of your main texts. Hereis one on Oscar Wilde and The Aesthetes. There are also a series of Shakespeare Programmes to access. I have put a link on Twitter to the recent elizabethan Tragedies programme which will be useful for The Tempest and Tis Pity She's a Whore.

Student response to Characterisation in Dorian Gray

Here is a teacher commentary on a student's response to how Dorian Gray is presented at the start of the book

Finding additional resources on itunesU

If you have an itunes account you will find a mass of university and media resources on your chosen texts for coursework and exams. ItunesU is the educational section of itunes and all of the resources are free. Radio programmes and university lectures and podcasts can be downloaded to your devices. A recent search found resources on: Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe's Turn of the Screw, Gatsby, a mass of resources on Shakespeare, T S Eliot's The Wasteland, Chaucer's canterbury Tales. Additionally Language students will find items of interest on language and gender,technology,power, langugae acquisition and change.