The Tempest The importance of Act 5 teacher lecture

 Here I explore Act 5 with regard to different A05 interpretations  

Answering The Tempest extract question Act 4 scene 1

Here is a teacher talk through response to answering the extract based question on paper 1 for The Tempest Act 4 scene 1

 

OCR A level Literature U6 Mock 2024: Answering the Gothic Unseen question on The Haunting of Hill House

 

The Tempest: The important moments in Act 5 for the proposition question

 

The Duchess of Malfi Act 1 Teacher summary on what you should know

 Summary of main themes and characters in Act one. I also discuss the presentation of women in Act one and what makes this a tragedy. I make comparisons with Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale

Teacher revision video on The Bloody Chamber Collection

This covers contexts that you should know, particularly the literary context and how to write about it. 

I also look at the following areas:

The writer's intentions.

Carter's use of the short story form, the gothic form and fairy tale genre.

I give a brief overview of things to know about in:

The Bloody Chamber, Snow Child, Lady in The House, Mr Lyon and Tiger's Bride and Erl King.

Finally I look at how to consider the collection as a journey. I do not cover the Wolf stories

The Merchant's Tale and Duchess of Malfi Contexts

Here are student made videos on each of the contexts of both texts. 

 1. The Literary context of The Merchant'sTale and Duchess of Malfi

2. A Sense of Place: The Importance of location in Duchess of Malfi and Merchant's Tale

3. A Woman's Place: Merchant's Tale and Duchess of Malfi

4. The Secular Hierarchy

5. The Literary Context of Fableau and Tragedy

6. The Poet's and Playwright's life and work

7. The Secular Hierarchy

8. A sense of place in both texts

9. A woman's place in The Merchant's Tale and Duchess of Malfi 

10. Chaucer: His life and work

11. The Literary Context of Chaucer's Merchant Tale and Duchess of Malfi

How to answer the OCR A level Tempest Extract Close Analysis Question 1a for Paper 1 (Act 5 scene 1)

Miss Mor explores the psychoanalytical reading (AO5) of The Tempest

This is excellent resource for your revision of The Tempest proposition question

How to answer the OCR A level Gothic comparison question. "In literature transformation is always presented as a positive thing"

This was a revision tutorial by Mr O'Shea going through how to structure an answer to The Bloody Chamber and Dracula comparison question

Introduction to The Duchess of Malfi Act 1

 This covers Act 1 and specific contexts in the play (A03). I also look at conventions of Revenge Tragedy (A03) and comparisons with The Merchant'sTale (A04)

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale Video Tutorial 2: From May's wedding to Damyan in the Garden

 This tutorial covers the text from the wedding night of Januarie and May up to Damyan entering the Garden.

This also covers the conventions of Courtly Love, Chaucer's use of Irony and allusion as well as aspects of language and verse structure.

Answering the Gothic Unseen question (1st video) The Haunted Man

Answering the Gothic Unseen extract question (3rd video) The Fall of The House of Usher

How to answer the Gothic Unseen question: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2nd video)

Lower 6th Language students have been making short videos to consolidate their understanding of English Language topics

1. How advertisers sell.

2. Grammar at Woodhouse College

3.

4. George Orwell: Language and Power

5. How to write an Opinion Column

English Language terminology videos

                                                    1 Representation in English Language

2. Language and Discourse

3. Pronouns made interesting

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

Interesting Programme about techniques of public speaking and rhetorical techniques

Simon Armitage on the skills of public speeches. This is useful for your AS second coursework choice and language and power.

Classroom mini documentaries on Emily Dickinson's poetry

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