Book Drum Help with Wider Reading

You must check this site out. It is really excellent and will help you in your study of Love Through the Ages.
e.g Just click on "Tess of the D'urbervilles" and you will find links to really useful resources to help your study.
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BOOK DRUM

The BBC Animated Canterbury Tales Chaucer

Oxford University Resources for A Level Students

Oxford University offer a wealth of resources to A Level Students. This site presents Lectures, ebooks, essays and contextual materials and all absolutely free! You should definitely visit.
Oxford University Resources for Literature A Level students

University Lectures for A Level Students

This site is well worth a browse. Leeds University have created a series of audio/visual podcasts for A Levels in Secondary Schools. They offer a range of podcasts on Shakespeare, Novels and Poetry as well as helping to prepare you for study at University. Check it out.
Leeds University English Faculty Podcasts for Secondary Schools

Your imagination is more powerful than you think

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Listen to some great literature on Radio 4. novels and plays dramatised

A Woman of no Importance Radio Adaptation Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Radio Adaptation of A Woman of no Importance

BBC Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Metaphysical poets

Worth a listen!
Click on the site below and listen to views about John Donne's, The Flea.  Andrew Marvel's "To his Coy Mistress". There are also bits on Andrew Marvel and how they rethink Love Poetry.
You'll also find links to some useful sites to help with context.

BBC Radio Melvyn Bragg on The Metaphysicals

Quotations to think about...

KEY QUOTATIONS

Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

A portrait of Absolom

In Friday's lesson we looked at the portrait of Absolom. Translate this section using your notes and have a look at the key quotations here. Chaucer mocks this character who has strong aspirations to be a courtly lover himself. Chaucer also invites us to compare him with Nicholas. They are both suitors for Alison's affections... which we know she gives freely. But who do you think she will favour?

Absolon

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The Miller's Tale

Here is the work we did on Thursday 24th June period 9/10. I've had to put this smart board on The MOODLE as I couldn't change it into a portable document. Here's the link:
http://moodle.malmesbury.wilts.sch.uk/course/view.php?id=855
You will have to download Smartboard reader if you are at home. Go to this link:
http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/Notebook+IV/NIVv95Win.htm

I'll keep trying to post it here. Perhaps it doesn't like my drawing...

Some research tasks on Chaucer and the Medieval period

Sorry I couldn't get this on the Blog before. I had a few problems getting the pdf to read properly. Anyway... Pick your area for research:
Courtly Love
Chivalry - The Knight's Code of Conduct
Pilgrimages in Chaucer's time
The role of the Church in Medieval England
E.M. Tillyard "The Elizabethan World Picture" - check out the chapter on 'The Chain of Being'.
There are links to really good websites on the last page. If the links don't work diresctly, copy and paste into your browser.
All the above will be important to your study of 'The Miller's Tale'.
Make brief notes so that you understand the terms.


Background PDF From Smart Boards

Yet another simplified time line...

Periods of British Literature

A Literature Map

Just discovered a great site to help with wider reading. You type in the name of an author you have enjoyed reading and it will give you a whole list of other authors you might like to try. The closer the names are together, the better the match.
Click here for the Literature Map

Molly Bloom's Soliloquy

It's beautiful:

Molly Bloom