How to take notes in English Literature

This is a short video in which a student explains how she takes notes for the AS Literature Emily Dickinson poetry. There follows images of her detailed annotation on each poem in the anthology. Pause the image to add your own notes on each poem.

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

Classroom mini documentaries on Emily Dickinson's poetry

Here are some of the recent classroom documentaries my class made last week.

A Bird came down the Walk Teacher commentary

Here is Miss Wall's teacher commentary on A Bird Came Down a Walk

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.

Patterns in Poetry audio commentaries

Our colleagues at SCC School in Ireland have produced some excellent five minute commentaries on the different techniques of poetry. Each technique is illustrated by its use in one poem. The eight talks are all under 5 minutes each and are, in order: (1) Introduction, (2) Titles, (3) Alliteration, (4) Personification, (5) Symbols, (6) Onomatopoeia, (7) Cliché, (8) Simile (9) Rhyme, (10) Repetition, (11) The Sonnet, (12) Punctuation, (13) Foreshadowing, (14) Metaphor, (15) Hyperbole. Note that there is a brief pause between each talk. You can listen to them here

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.