Welcome to Atonement

What we'll try to do (the order might vary, at first based on the first part, then the whole novel):

1) Background search on different contexts (share sources and info):

* Ian McEwan as the author

* Britain in 1935

* the class system in Britain between World Wars

2) Finding non-literary texts that would allow us to revise different text types and enlighten us about something related to this novel at the same time (ongoing work)

3) Putting together a detailed timeline

4) Compiling character profiles

6) Describing how the Tallis household functions (social class and power issues)

+ Briony reads The Waves by Virginia Woolf --> read (fragments) here if interested (6 different viewpoints interspersed with detailed descriptions of the sea, which function as means of moving from one consciousness into another):

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201091h.html

After reading the whole novel:

Ongoing work on the timeline, character profiles (with quotes, and events that bring about changes in the characters), finding non-literary texts, and discussing important issues.

+ Discussion questions

(See this, too, for one opinion: https://jacquemoreau.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/the-tallis-household/)

+ Brian Finney essay: http://web.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/mcewan.html

+ Convince me to like or hate Briony

+ Object descriptions

+ Fiction and metafiction

+ Metonymy and class

+ Watching the film

+ Some creative writing (if you'd like to have some)

Some useful resources for the background search:

Ian McEwan homepage: http://www.ianmcewan.com/

Britain 1930s timeline (if you google this phrase, you'll get a lot more, maybe some even better):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml

1935 in the UK: 

Everyday life in Britain in the 1930s: http://www.localhistories.org/1930slife.html

Thirties Britain (The National Archives):

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/thirties-britain/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2641959/British-Council-film-archive-reveals-life-1930s-40s-Britain.html

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/7483/economics/the-uk-economy-in-the-1930s/

http://www.capx.co/what-did-britain-really-look-like-in-the-1930s/

Some on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqpNcHTG4uM (poverty, 12:25)

A short video on the stately house in which part 1 of Atonement was filmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFB6EdlR08 (Stokesay Court, 6:16)

Google for pictures: British manor houses 1930s

You can listen to a bit of Minding the Manor: the Memoir of a 1930 English Kitchen Maid by Mollie Moran here: http://www.amazon.com/Minding-Manor-Memoir-English-Kitchen/dp/0762796839

The fate of Britain's historic homes. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2101933/Englands-lost-Downtons-Or-endless-homes-ended-bypasses-office-blocks-golf-courses.html

Task: When reading, if you notice anything mentioned that might have existed in real life (people, places, politics, etc.), google them and find out more, e.g. Bernini's Triton in the Piazza Barberini in Rome (p18 in the 2002 Vintage publication I own, first page of Chapter 2)

Read for background and a video-related task:

https://g20languageandliterature.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/atonement-background-context/

https://youtu.be/CvuVfgZ9wcI (26:41)

One Day in the Life of I.D. (work in progress)

Quoting Wikipedia: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and describes a single day in the life of ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.

Task: Make a list of background issues you need to research to be able to comment on the different contexts of this story.

Writing in second person:
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-writing-in-second-person.html
Deportations from Estonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Estonia
Map of Gulag camps:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/4269mb/map_of_gulag_camps_in_the_ussr_which_existed_from/

Gulag history: https://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/living.php.html

In Detailed study questions (on Tera, the doc with "ideas" as the last word, beginning on p6), which one question from each section is the most promising from the viewpoint of discussion rather than just finding facts from the text?

Socialist realism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism

https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/literature-other-modern-languages/russian-and-eastern-european-literature/socialist-realism

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/socialist_realism

Revision of tone and mood

Differences and examples: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/tone-vs-mood#what-is-tone-in-literature

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/difference-between-tone-and-mood-in-literature.html
Tone and mood words doc on Tera

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/ewaszolek/mood-and-tone-27156461

Novels that take place in a single day: 

https://electricliterature.com/15-novels-that-take-place-in-a-single-day/

Stalag 17: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_17

Stalag 17 film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKc2GJk2OLQ (2 hrs)

Symbols / Imagery / Allegory in One Day: numbers as new identities; medical ward (cleanliness)

https://www.shmoop.com/ivan-denisovich/symbolism-imagery.html (light; food (esp bread); symbols of religion and polite manners (sharing is caring?); snow, ice, cold; Shukhov's possessions; throat cutting...)

Task: Discuss this list of abstract issues as themes (see relevant blog post)

Task: What makes a text timeless and literary???

timeless = not affected by the passage of time or changes in fashion

literary = having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect

1970 film on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqG1uwhTX2o (1:45:48)

How to analyse a film: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/film-analysis/

NB! Do not go on before the whole novel has been discussed in detail

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: One Book, One Chicago Spring 2006 (includes quite a lot of background info + some discussion questions): 

https://www.chipublib.org/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich-one-book-one-chicago-spring-2006/

Sparknotes: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/denisovich/

Creative task: Day in the life of ...

Flash fiction

To complement PhilpotNew U1.10 Short stories and novels

Definition: a type of fiction characterized by being very short, typically consisting of only a few hundred words.

* Can fall under any genre, although the more common genres include romance, thrillers, horror, sci-fi and fanfiction.

* Brief- compresses an entire story into the space of a few paragraphs. The average word count ranges anywhere from five to 1,500 words, but the consensus is that the maximum tops out at 2,000.

* Despite its briefness, it has a complete plot and still offers character as well as plot development. 

* Has few characters.

* Often incorporates surprise, usually in the form of a twist ending or an unexpected last line.

* Tends to be published in anthologies, journals, and collections.

* The aim of flash fiction is to prompt the reader to think deeply about the true meaning of the story.

Example: https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories/the-end-by-mary-wallace

It lay on the bed; its red cover stupidly declaring its name, as if the fact that it usually lay hidden in a locked drawer wasn't enough to proclaim its purpose.

Life had been different lately. She was bored; she could no longer tolerate his gentleness, and yet his quiet integrity was the thing that had once attracted her.

Marie watched through the keyhole as he replaced the journal back into its drawer unopened. How much easier if he'd opened it and read her message.

Damn his honesty, she thought, I'll have to end it in person.

A most famous six-word story: https://i.imgur.com/gQlAy.jpg

Task: write your own.

Two-sentence horror stories:

https://www.boredpanda.com/short-scary-two-sentence-horror-stories/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Sources: https://blog.reedsy.com/what-is-flash-fiction/

https://www.writersdigest.com/improve-my-writing/flash-fiction-faqs

https://medium.com/@joannasmith008/everything-you-need-to-know-about-flash-fiction-29e2513b4f4a

Twitterature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitterature

Drabble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drabble

Belief and values: Beauty (work in progress)

Task: Discuss what beauty is for you with your classmates.

Put your ideas about what it is in poem form. Share. 

An example by me:

From dawn to sunset

Beauty is what beauty does

Lends a helping hand

© Erika

Lines of inquiry

How are social constructs of beauty and gender created and communicated? (factual)

To what degree does one's cultural perspective shape one's understanding of gender and beauty? (conceptual) 

To what degree do media platforms have a responsibility to communicate healthy constructs of beauty? (debatable)

Beauty standards through history: https://www.scienceofpeople.com/beauty-standards/ (3:09)

Is beauty in the average? (read this and some related texts from the same site): 

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/is-beauty-in-the-average-or-the-individual.html

Techniques in advertising: 

https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/techniques-word-shapes-advertising-26060.html

Ugly = the new pretty: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/7/21/ugly-is-the-new-pretty-bologna/

Vocabulary to talk about beauty: NB! Not every word is formal enough for using in IB assignments

https://boompositive.com/blogs/positivethesaurus/words-to-describe-beauty-synonyms

https://www.words-to-use.com/words/beauty/ (Discuss the quotes :) )

TED talks about beauty: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TED+beauty

Task (portfolio and presentation and blog): Choose one TED talk on beauty (not to same as any of your classmates), watch it and make a short presentation to class (including presenter, specific topic, main points they make and ideas they put forth + examples, specialist terms, your own opinion of the issue, anything else you deem worthwhile).

See the document (on Tera) on summarising to help you with language choices. 

In addition, make a blog post on it (incl. link to where it can be watched, main idea, GI). It could be in the same blog post with your explanation of what beauty is.

To complement PhilpotNew Unit 2.3

Discuss it in detail, make sure you know all the vocabulary and key concepts.

Treat every text as a possibility to practice for Paper 1, i.e. detailed annotation and thinking of a possible guiding question to go with it (if the book has not suggested one). After annotating on your own, discuss with some classmates to pool your ideas. Balance-wise, pay a bit more attention to non-literary texts than literary ones. Save annotations in your portfolio.

Every time you go off the book to read / research something online (as directed by a task in the book, or me, or because of your own interests), share useful / interesting findings on the blog.

Set yourself homework at the end of each discussion lesson (unless the teacher has given you something specific to do). Each time include something that could and should be presented to the whole class the next time.

See which parts of PhilpotNew U2.3 Beauty the following might go together with:

* Same topic, different ways of presenting. What are the advantages and disadvantages of presenting an issue in such ways? Who might be the intended audience? 

How would you word a global issue here?

https://deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org/malnutrition/articles/2018/04/12/in-mauritania-force-feeding-leaves-young-girls-with-long-term-problems

Fed to Wed (documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8YJm6w2IvU

Objectifying men:

https://www.mainstreethost.com/blog/sex-sells-sexy-men-objectification-men-advertising/

Could this be the beginning of a BOW?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/this-artist-re-created-sexist-vintage-ads-with-the-roles

(http://www.elirezkallah.com/photography)

Why is it so hard to see black and blue (Task 3.10 / Text 2.25): 

https://vulcanpost.com/188081/hard-see-black-blue-salvation-army-puts-thedress-new-light/

Task: Create a BOW :)

Task 3.11: Add catcalling to the list of problems.

Make Your Move!: http://www.makeyourmovemissoula.org/

The Bystander Campaign: http://www.makeyourmovemissoula.org/bystander (BOW!) (read about consent and bystander tips, etc., too)

PhilpotNew Task 3.12 rewritten for small groups (do NOT go there unless instructed to do so)

* Read the intro and point a (PhilpotNew p 135 Towards assessment).

* Go to Chapter 8 and read / discuss pp 321-322 (up till the end of Task 8.1).

* Refresh your memory of what is available on the blog in connection with the IO (and where exactly).

* Back to p 135. Read Texts 2.27 and 2.28 quickly, discuss point b, and pick a global issue to concentrate on.

* Annotate both texts, and do point c on your own.

* Instead of point d, share your outlines in your small groups.

* Do points e-j using feedback from your small group members.

* Save everything in your portfolio.

NB! You are not allowed to use the same texts for your real IO that you have used for this kind of practice.

Do NOT go past this line yet!

Analysis of The Diet by Carol Ann Duffy (only to be consulted after you have done PhilpotNew Task 3.12 as fully as possible): https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-diet/

Task: consult the online analysis, and add another layer to your annotation of the poem.

A student's analysis of Text 2.28: 

https://sites.psu.edu/rclvandevelde/2013/10/17/unit-two-paper-draft-two/

Beauty and fitness adverts: 

https://flashbak.com/beauty-and-fitness-adverts-the-fine-art-of-preying-on-a-bad-self-image-5469/

Portfolio task: Use Text 2.28 as the text for practice for Paper 1, with this guiding question:

How does this advertisement use written and visual language to ‘speak’ to its reader?

Teaching others: The World's Wife

Teaching presentation of ~15 min each.

Specific poems in this order (the person whose name is there is responsible for the presentation but they can ask one other person to help them in this (but not do their work for them)).

Thetis (Pradny)

Queen Herod (Steven)

Pilates' Wife (Enes)

Mrs Sisyphus (Sithil)

    Bonus: Mrs Darwin

Mrs Aesop (Enes)

Queen Kong (Pradny)

Mrs Beast (Neel)

Medusa (Sithil)

Circe (Anastasia)

Mrs Lazarus (Frederik)

Pygmalion's Bride (Timo)

    Bonus: Mrs Icarus

Salome (Timo)

Penelope (Steven)

Delilah (Anastasia)

Frau Freud (Frederik)

Look at it from (at least) two viewpoints: 

* as if this were your chosen IO text (Global Issue! + reference to the same global issue in other poems by Carol Ann Duffy)

* what kind of non-lit text would treat the same topic (that could be used for Paper 1 practice)

* what kind of Body of Work (non-literary) could be connected to this via the Global Issue

NB! In addition to teaching, create a blog post with the most salient points and any suitable links.

Beliefs and values: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Beauty

 To complement PhilpotNew Unit 2

Discuss it in detail, make sure you know all the vocabulary and key concepts.

Treat every text as a possibility to practice for Paper 1, i.e. detailed annotation and thinking of a possible guiding question to go with it (if the book has not suggested one). After annotating on your own, discuss with some classmates to pool your ideas. Balance-wise, pay a bit more attention to non-literary texts than literary ones. Save annotations in your portfolio.

Every time you go off the book to read / research something online (as directed by a task in the book, or me, or because of your own interests), share useful / interesting findings on the blog.

Set yourself homework at the end of each discussion lesson. If you have not done this, follow the teacher's guidelines (but for becoming a self-directed learner, setting your own is more useful).

Rosie the Riveter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter

Gender equity (article): https://hbr.org/2020/05/gender-equity-starts-in-the-home

BOW: ArtActivistBarbie: 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/apr/16/art-activist-barbie-protester-feminist-agenda

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/barbiereports?lang=en

Think of poems from "The World's Wife" by Carol Ann Duffy: which of them would you connect to the general topics of this unit, or, more specifically, to a sub-topic or a text.

BOW: The Gender Code (Gender & Sexuality Documentary): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zph7H-O0d5w (1:57:56)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender

The movie "The Danish Girl" (try Netflix?)

https://people.com/movies/the-real-life-danish-girl-the-story-of-1920s-transgender-artist-lili-elbe/

Masculinity and hypermasculinity: 

Task: watch each, and summarise the ideas expressed in them in a paragraph of max 10 sentences (for your portfolio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw0wt_tbdCI (8:28)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbX76n6A160 (6:44)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gha3kEECqUk (toxic masculinity, 6:38)

TED talks:

Why I'm done trying to be "man enough" | Justin Baldoni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cetg4gu0oQQ

Another BOW: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/men-ups_b_999124

Duffy's school- and education-related poems

See also my 11 January blog post.
Task: Put the poems in the order of how a child progresses through the educational system.

Add publication data to each and every poem.

What does each poem tell the reader about school and / or the educational system?

What stylistic and literary features does it use, and to what effect?

What kind of global issue can you connect each to?

Possible Paper 2 themes:

If education is a relative term, how do two of the literary works you have studied  explore this idea?
How does a particular term or concept, such as personal growth, change in the way it is represented in to literary texts you have studied?

The language of war

This should support PhilpotNew U4.1 and any war-related texts (incl poems by Duffy)

PhilpotNew pp 208-209: full text of The State of Union Address (George W. Bush, 2003):

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-the-congress-the-state-the-union-23

Video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?174799-2/2003-state-union-address (the extract in PhilpotNew Text 4.5 is the very beginning of it)

In any case, pay special attention to how words are used to describe war (euphemisms, blunt language, direct statements, hinting, allusion, imagery, metaphors, etc). Look at what type of text it is, and whether the author's choice of vocabulary, sentence patterns,, imagery, etc, is somehow dependent on the genre of the text, who wrote it, when, about which war, etc. Why has the author made such choices?

 A list of war-related vocabulary: https://myvocabulary.com/word-list/war-vocabulary/

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/war

Sensory language: 

Show, don't tell :)

https://studymoose.com/war-poets-and-the-five-senses-essay

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-bhcc-acceleratedenglish/chapter/sensory-details-examples/

Task: do the mindfulness five senses exercise: 

https://medcenterblog.uvmhealth.org/wellness/physical/mindfulness-mindful-monday-exercise/

Creative portfolio task: Write a paragraph about anything that you want to, using sensory language (all the five senses!)

George Carlin video on euphemisms (PhilpotNew p 210):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o1FDWyfvvw (since this is long, leave it as homework)

Related articles (found by class of 2021):

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/the-language-of-war-and-weapons-1.3854 (Niks)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11056757/Why-slang-is-the-language-of-war.html (Nati)

https://soa.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/anthro_theses/russell_sara.pdf

http://www.ugr.es/~jsantana/lies/language_war.htm (Andrei)

https://legionmagazine.com/en/2019/06/euphemisms-acronyms-and-outright-lies-the-language-of-war/ (Kerli)

http://theconversation.com/the-warspeak-permeating-everyday-language-puts-us-all-in-the-trenches-121356 (Marta)

Overview of global issues: 

http://www.worldrevolution.org/projects/globalissuesoverview/overview2/PeaceNew.htm

Turning war into art: https://www.wanderarti.com/turning-war-into-art/ - Is this intertextuality?

Trench art: https://daydreamtourist.com/2015/05/11/trench-art/

More of street art: https://www.streetartbio.com/

An example of a student's art sketchbook:  

https://www.studentartguide.com/featured/war-theme-a-level-art

Task: Start from doing PhilpotNew U4.1 task 1.10 + text 4.7, then move on to curate a class exhibition = BOW of Banksy's war-related pieces of street art. This should be a common document accessible through everyone's portfolio, and each student needs to present one piece of art to class with detailed analysis so that collectively you would have a BOW in which at least half the pieces of art are accompanied with explanations / analyses.

Videos about Banksy: 

Who is Banksy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoe3Nn5vuBg (13:54)

Banksy's street art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSsjC-F9bwk (6:17)

Banksy art hotel in Bethlehem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMS6Ds3qryY

Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMUJ8zFtcu0 /1:26:10)

Carol Ann Duffy

One of our texts: poems by Carol Ann Duffy (PLA, 20th-21st century, Europe)

Poet Laureate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_laureate

Duffy as a Poet Laureate: https://www.ft.com/content/89f0c588-367b-11de-af40-00144feabdc0

The Twelve Days of Christmas (once again, see also the post on allusion):

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-12-days-of-christmas-2009-poet-435367

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/06/poet-laureate-duffy-christmas-poem

See also Cockermouth and Workington below.

Traditional song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEyMjdD2uk

Analysis of the traditional song: https://literarydevices.net/the-twelve-days-of-christmas/

The Christmas Truce:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/multimedia/poetry-spoken-word/101-carol-ann-duffy-the-christmas-truce
Illustrated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOhLPzYDUc
How do the illustrations add to the poem / interact with the poem, and what's the effect on the reader?
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-LmXKkH_E
History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlPNWDvk-c (11:12)
Analysis: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/12/truc-d27.html

Politics, Duffy's first poem as official Poet Laureate:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/12/politics-carol-ann-duffy-poem
(what politics does to a person when they enter politics)

https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2016/04/20/politics/
Ecopolitics: get this online: Reading Carol Ann Duffy's “Politics” - UKM e-Journal System (pdf)

Two more short poems (kind of political)

Campaign: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/10/campaign-a-poem-by-carol-ann-duffy-exclusively-for-the-guardian

Carol Ann Duffy wrote this poem in response to the 2017 general election result, a result that took almost everyone by surprise, not least Theresa May, the subject of Duffy"s piece. The poem is short and comprised mostly of metaphors.

Metaphor is the comparison of two concepts through language, often done by using the verb 'to be'.  Metaphor is often seen as a literary device used by poets. Metaphors, however, can be found in every day speech and images.
Analysis (kind of): https://www.thebookseller.com/news/carol-ann-duffy-pens-scathing-post-election-poem-567886
Theresa May: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_through_fields_of_wheat

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2017/06/10/news/carol-ann-duffy-savaged-theresa-may-in-this-election-themed-poem-1051556/

A possible BOW: 

Photos of flooded Venice: https://mymodernmet.com/natalia-elena-massi-venice-flood/

To go with Carol Ann Duffy's "flinty alliterative honouring of the northern towns hit by floods, "Cockermouth and Workington"" (cited from https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/football-floods-and-royal-weddings-carol-ann-duffy-makes-poetry-heard-in-national-life-2366400.html))

Cockermouth and Workington:

On Duffy's poetry as being political:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/football-floods-and-royal-weddings-carol-ann-duffy-makes-poetry-heard-in-national-life-2366400.html

Duffy's style: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/carol-ann-duffy
Fricatives: http://englishtutorhome2.blogspot.com/2013/04/sounds-in-poetry-sibilant-plosive.html

History vs herstory and Duffy

Elements of poetry: https://learn.lexiconic.net/elementsofpoetry.htm

Poetry analysis fact sheet: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/analysis.html

Herstory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herstory

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Moving-Beyond-History-and-by-Burl-Hall-121219-896.html

Carol Ann Duffy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ann_Duffy

Poet Laureate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_laureate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom

Feminist literary criticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_literary_criticism

http://writersinspire.org/content/feminist-approaches-literature

Standing Female Nude (includes War photographer and Education for Leisure)

https://www.preceden.com/timelines/288535-carol-ann-duffy-and-standing-female-nude

https://emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/10/16/education-for-leisure-by-carol-ann-duffy/

The World's Wife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Wife

A review: http://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/sep/25/costabookaward.features

Several poem analyses here (don't go until we've dealt with the poems):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/search?q=carol+ann+duffy&page=1

Feminine Gospels includes Beautiful: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-beautiful-annotated

History: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-history-annotated

The Diet: https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-the-diet-annotated

Top poems to read: 

https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/

An ode to meters:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3713557/Poet-laureate-publishes-verse-praising-old-fashioned-devices-removed-British-homes-paid-undisclosed-fee-energy-company.html

An interview: 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/27/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate-books-interview

Sincerity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWAkkwD-sM

Royal wedding poem: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2018/may/18/carol-anne-duffys-royal-wedding-poem-long-walk

Keep it in the ground: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/27/keep-it-in-the-ground-a-poem-by-carol-ann-duffy

School- and education-related poems

Document of the same name on Tera with most of them in it:)
Annotate the following poems (sources give you poems online plus some analysis). Do not go to online analyses until you have done your own annotation.

Also think of the following: What do you identify as the predominant aspects of this text? Consider aspects that are more abstract than textual / literary features, e.g. tensions, conflicts, ironies, ideas, etc.

* In Mrs Tilscher’s class

https://insideenglishteaching.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/poetry-carol-anne-duffy/

http://www.whec.edin.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-mrs-tilschers-class-annotated-1.pdf
* Head of English: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciftX9KbtKU
* The Good Teachers
https://carolannduffypoems.tumblr.com/post/38792533471/the-good-teachers
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-good-teachers
* Death of a Teacher
https://poetryshark.wordpress.com/tag/carol-ann-duffy/
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/death-of-a-teacher
https://prezi.com/p/bru6ej31jugf/death-of-a-teacher-by-carol-ann-duffy/
* Education for Leisure
https://emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/10/16/education-for-leisure-by-carol-ann-duffy/
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-education-for-leisure-annotated
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/sep/04/gcses.english

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052970/Why-ban-Shakespeare-Poet-strikes-knife-verse-dropped-GCSE.html
* Comprehensive
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-comprehensive-annotated
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/poetry/duffy.htm#comprehensive
* Dark School
http://www.tusitala.org.uk/carol-ann-duffy-dark-school/
https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-dark-school
Task: Read and annotate (individually, or in pairs or in small groups), and create a blog post on your chosen poem, adding links to useful sources, and a plan on the most insightful things to talk about when analysing it, plus what global issue(s) you could connect this to. It would be especially lovely if you could think of a non-lit BOW ...

Some related non-lit to widen your horizons: 

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/10-barriers-to-education-around-the-world-2/

https://www.adsoftheworld.com/taxonomy/industry/education

Malala Fund: https://malala.org/girls-education?sc=header

Malala's diary: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29565738

This diary will be a BOW we'll look into together.

A little bit of fun: https://magmapoetry.com/which-poem-would-you-ban-from-the-school-syllabus/

Poetry

Start getting an idea what poetry is by reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry (and following more interesting links from there)

and take notes as to what you believe is more relevant to your understanding of poetry (meter, rhyme, poetic features, different forms, etc).

Glossary of poetic terms:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072405228/student_view0/poetic_glossary.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms?category=forms-and-types

Read:

An article about poetry's role in protest politics:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/15/poetry-protest-politics

And one about war poetry:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/apr/02/war-poetry-brian-turner-iraq?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Place to listen to poetry online: https://www.poetryoutloud.org/competing/listen-to-poems/

A fun poem about the pronunciation of English (practice reading this!)

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you

On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.

Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps.

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard but sounds like bird.

And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,

For goodness sake don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth as in mother

Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,

And here is not a match for there,

Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose--

Just look them up--and goose and choose

And cork and work and card and ward

And font and front and word and sword

And do and go, then thwart and cart,

Come, come! I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful Language? Why man alive!

I learned to talk it when I was five.

And yet to write it, the more I tried,

I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

(borrowed from a source that has since vanished)

Performance poetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_poetry

An example of spoken poetry: Sarah Kay "If I Should Have a Daughter":

https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter

Some more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u3t7glrN0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbERIVc7BM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE-c4Bj_RT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Y9zgOSUnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_zXjfBPfTk&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvagvG8Ys8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04rfgNvvXz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2_uKaugPI

Google for "spoken word poetry" if you want more, or google an author you liked more than the rest.

Introduction to poetry: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/001.html (text 1.43 in PhilpotNew, so leave this out at this point, we'll do it as part of PhilpotNew)

More on meter and the like:

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xmeter.html

Rhythm:

http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/rhythm.html

+ dictionary of poetry terms:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903237.html

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_poetic_terms_s.htm

http://www.hinduwebsite.com/general/poetry.asp

Scansion, rhythm and meter: 

https://www.writingforward.com/poetry-writing/poetry-rhythm-and-meter

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOXVoDBul4

How to write a limerick:

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-limerick.html

http://www.oedilf.com/wiki/index.php/Writing_a_Limerick

Concrete poetry = pattern poetry = shape poetry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry

Google for examples:)

Acrostic: https://www.wikihow.com/Write-an-Acrostic-Poem

Haiku: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Haiku-Poem

Sonnet: http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm

How to write a poem: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/poetry-writing-tips-how-to-write-a-poem/

Task: Try your hand at writing some forms of poetry. Comment on other people's creations.

This is for inspiration: https://penandthepad.com/arrange-lines-poem-20713.html

Homework based on this:

Read a lot of poetry, e.g. at Poetry 180 (US Library of Congress poetry collection): http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html

I want you to read as many poems from the site as possible, preferably aloud with a friend, choosing them because of their titles, or their subject matter, and then create blog posts with short reflection on each poem, Each person should reflect on at least 5 poems, including one general idea from the poem that you thought interesting, and one specific line (quotation) that you liked + a short explanation why you liked it.

This is a sample reflection by a Mr Kew, from whom I borrowed this task:

Poem 1 – “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins

One idea that I really like in this poem is how the poet shows us how to enjoy poetry and experience it rather than focusing only on its “secrets.”

One line in this poem that I really like is “They begin beating it with a hose / to find out what it really means” because it is humorous, but also makes us think about the way that poetry analysis should not be like torture.

Blogs

PhilpotNew 1.9 (pp 52-57)

In 9.1, consider (not necessarily in this order): aim, formality, content, audience, layout, special features, language, visuals, personality, links
Difference between web sites and blogs: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-is-a-blog-and-how-is-it-different-from-a-website-explained/
Press release: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_release
Diary or journal: https://www.thepencompany.com/blog/diaries/difference-between-diary-and-a-journal/

Characteristics of a good blog: https://firstsiteguide.com/characteristics-of-blog/
Most popular blog types: https://makeawebsitehub.com/popular-blog-types/

Most successful: https://alphainvestors.com/blogging/examples-successful-blogs/

Student blogs: https://www.studential.com/university/student-blogs

Environmental blogs: https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/amazing-environmental-blogs.php

Some travel blogs: https://www.bucketlistly.blog/posts/best-backpacking-adventure-blogs

Race issues: https://psychologybenefits.org/race-and-law-enforcement/

https://www.enar-eu.org/Blog

Top Youtube vloggers: https://izea.com/2019/02/06/top-youtube-vloggers/

How to start a vlog: https://filmora.wondershare.com/business/vlogging-tips.html

Humans of New York: https://www.humansofnewyork.com/

Interviews with suicide survivors: https://talkingaboutsuicide.com/the-interviews/

Task: The work on blogs should result in everybody picking a blog they would like to follow because they are interested in the issues the blog covers, which also lend themselves to be treated like BOWs full of Global Issues. You will have to present this blog to your classmates, and write an analysis of it for your portfolio, and prepare 1-2 pages of it so it could be used as Paper 1 practice in class.

https://10web.io/blog/blog-online-magazine-difference/

2 documents in Tera in the How-to folder

Street art

To complement PhilpotNew U1.6

Graffiti vs street art: http://www.columbia.edu/~sl3731/graffitiART/
Street art festival Stencibility in Tartu: http://stencibility.eu/
The history
of street art: https://study.com/academy/lesson/street-art-definition-history.html
of graffiti: https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-graffiti-definition-history-types.html
The art of graffiti-tagging:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-04/the-art-of-graffiti-tagging/6959396
Street art terms illustrated:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51583/14-street-art-terms%E2%80%94illustrated
Mural and fresco: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-mural-and-a-fresco
Making a street artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnqEQDDf6Zo (7:03)
Berlin Wall graffiti art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall_graffiti_art
Some Banksy:
https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/cctp-725-fall2013/2013/10/28/bansky-art-and-environment-in-street-art/
Most famous street art with a strong message:
https://www.boredpanda.com/environmental-street-art-graffiti-climate-change/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Slap! sticker exhibition: https://www.graffitistreet.com/stencibility-festival-presents-the-slap-van-europes-largest-ever-sticker-exhibition-2019/

(https://www.graffitistreet.com/stencibility-festival-presents-the-slap-van-europes-largest-ever-sticker-exhibition-2019/stencibility-sticker-slap-van-estonia-street-art-12/)

Mextonia: http://www.mextonia.com/
An example not that easy to see:

The Deepest Depths of the Burrow - Street Art & Graffiti Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln54lV-vm94 (1:45:04)
Banksy Exit Through The Gift Shop 2010 eng subs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8iaAFAM58 (1:26:06)

Task: What would you paint on a wall (and where and on what exactly) if you were going to apply for the possibility to make street art during the next Stencibility festival? Draw to scale. Justify your choices of theme, style, colours, figures, text, location, message, target audience, etc. OR design a sticker for the slap van :)

Comics and cartoons and graphic novels

To complement PhilpotNew U 1.5

On Tera (in the folder "How to analyse"):
* Analyse a cartoon
* Deconstructing cartoons
* Gender in cartoons

Calvin and Hobbes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAN7TZ6Wpag (9:06)
Calvin and Hobbes search: https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
Dear Mr Watterson: https://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2013/11/14/34648/dear-mr-watterson-we-miss-calvin-and-hobbes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKFaLKMCzYQ (33:49)
https://www.dearmrwatterson.com/
Difference: A cartoon is a single panel image usually used to convey an idea. A comic is a story told using sequential panel images. Sometimes the terms cartoon strip or comic strip are used interchangeably to describe a hybrid of the two.
Main elements of a comic:

Different emanata:
https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2008/07/word-of-the-week-emanata.html

Task: Consult the blog post on sustainable development goals, and find a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon or comic strip to illustrate one of the goals there.
If you have already found some other text type to illustrate one of the goals, be ready to present that, too.
Example:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ee/65/86/ee65865b69552d3d863f8d715d5cebe4.jpg)


















Best comic books ever: https://www.amexessentials.com/top-most-powerful-graphic-novels/
https://vocal.media/geeks/best-graphic-novels-ever-written
List of famous cartoonists: https://www.ranker.com/list/notable-cartoonist_s)/reference

Graphic novels

This source gives a good overview of what is out there but probably doesn't allow you to read much online: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/explore/topic/graphic-novels
Some things are exceptionally useful, though, e.g. the comics timeline.
Comics can be read here (but beware of some stupid ad blocking your view - seems to be OK when you open the same site twice, it doesn't come up in the second window): https://readcomiconline.to/
Read graphic novels online here: https://www.comicextra.com/graphic-novels-comic

NB! If you find a great source of a lone-standing book that is readable online free, or a place where many can be read free, share here :)

Political cartoons

To go with PhilpotNew U1.4

How to analyse: https://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-Political-Cartoons

https://moad-web.s3.amazonaws.com/heracles-production/9c0/341/fe0/9c0341fe0b2eee4391624ac60334d219e3ca8daebc25fe49805f03af2351/02-How-to-Analyse-teachers-notes.pdf

On Youtube: How To Analyze Political Cartoons by a couple of different people - watch some!

Recent political cartoons: https://www.politico.com/news/political-cartoons

This includes a task: http://www.lincolnlogcabin.org/education-kits/Abraham-Lincoln-Lesson-Plans/Lesson-5.pdf

PhilpotNew U1.3 Films and commercials

Allegory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory

Plato's allegory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

Apple Macintosh 1984 Super Bowl commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3jjKuTAPHA

Analysis of the above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)

A commercial in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2MnWe_gSs

Task: Try a couple of other commercials in languages you don't know but for brands you know quite a lot about.

Political ads: http://politicaladarchive.org/

The science of political advertising: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/advertising

Campaign advertising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_advertising

An example of standards for ads from Australia: 

https://adstandards.com.au/issues/political-and-election-advertising

(Ignore these for now:

List of persuasive techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VXcS1c4y8M (14:28)

Advertising techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWz8CzLELLQ) (17:48)

Adidas-Break Free Rhetorical Analysis (somebody's school assignment, 8:19): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spw1-cxyWAI --> 

What is good / bad about this analysis? 

Which ideas do you agree with?

On which ideas could you expand? How?

Rhetorical Analysis of Nike "Snow Day" (16:09)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc8WNuZBn3M

What makes this better? Why is such analysis not exactly what you need to do for IOC?

Budweiser Lost Dog Super Bowl Commercial (1:02)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKgC8KPBMg

What are they selling and how?

Create your own rhetorical analysis.