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🔎 Explore the collection and discover engaging worksheets, interactive presentations, and creative activity packs that will captivate your students' imaginations while supporting their learning journey. 🌈🔬
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Lesson - The Rise and Fall of the Reading Public
Overview
Q. D. Leavis, 1906-1981: A Select Bibliography
What is a Bestseller?
Q D Leavis and the Bestseller
Leavis and the Reading Public
Leavis vs the Bestseller
The Leavises and the Eighteenth Century
Leavis and the Eighteenth-Century Bestseller
The Growth of the Reading Public
Jane Austen (1775-1817), A Select Bibliography
Leavis: from Eliza Haywood to Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s ‘Love and Freindship’
The Disintegration of the Reading Public
Less of a Lecture and More of an Entangling - Lesson/Lecture
Overview
The Lecturee
The Mock Student
The Implied Student
The Ideal Student
The Real Student
How do literary texts represent readers?
Learning Communities
Reader-Response vs Formalism
How does reader-response differ from formalism?
Reading Paradise Lost
How Big is Satan’s Spear?
Surprized by Sin
Why Read Paradise Lost?
How does Milton represent the reader in Paradise Lost?
The Failing Critic in The Figure in the Carpet
The Implied Reader in The Figure in the Carpet
Towards the Death of the Author
How does James represent the reader / critic in The Figure in the Carpet?
(Im)Practical Criticism - lesson
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I A Richards, 1893-1979
I A Richards’ Hieroglyph
Visual Sensations
Tied Images
Free Imagery
Impulses and References
Emotions and Attitudes
The Neurology of Literary Criticism
Practical Criticism: Poem VIII
Close Reading: Stanza 1
Close Reading: Stanza 2
Close Reading: Stanza 3
Close Reading: Poem VIII
Close Reading: Rhyme Scheme
Impractical Criticism?
Once Upon a Time: Eight Stories about Narrative
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Overview
Pat Hutchin’s Rosie’s Walk
The Ontogeny of Narrative
Five Propositions
Homer, The Odyssey (transl. Robert Fagles)
The Oral Tradition
Mimesis
The Brothers Grimm, ‘The Frog King, or Iron Henry’
Folk and Fairy Tales and Formalism
Against Formalism’s Dual Approach
The Coen Brothers, The Big Lebowski
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Plot, Story and Narrative
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Modernism
John Barth, ‘Life-Story’
Metafiction
The Postmodern Condition
Graham Gibbs, ‘Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing’
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Overview
What do you understand by the term ‘author’?
What do you understand by the term ‘work’?
The Author Function
What idea do you have of what an ‘author’ is or does?
Barthes’s ‘The Death of the Author’
Barthes and language
Our ideas of ‘author’ and ‘reader’ are historically and culturally determined, and are subject to change.
Language is a system of signs used to produce a facsimile, or simulacrum, of the real world either in speech or writing.
Language, and the meanings associated with words, are all recycled by writers. There is, therefore, no ‘author’, or single ‘authority’ in a text.
Instead, there is Foucault’s ‘author function’, an idea or process which is socially constructed and which transforms (by ‘superstition’ for Barthes or ‘magic’ for Foucault’) a person into an Author: it is a role or an idea, not a person.
The Love Song of F. Raymond Leavis
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Overview
F R Leavis vs Mass Civilization
Culture vs Civilization
Leavis, Minority Culture, and Literary Criticism
Leavis, Teaching, and Collaboration
Collaboration vs Discipleship
Leavis and the Great Tradition
T. S. Eliot and Tradition
The Mind of the Poet and the Shred of Platinum
Tradition and T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot on Civilization and Culture…… and Savagery
Leavis vs Eliot
Eliot’s England: East Coker
Leavis vs Eliot’s England
Leavis’s England
Literary Englands
PDF Download - The Apathetic Fallacy - Lesson
Overview
W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley: Select Bibliographies
Part One: The Affective Fallacy
Against Affective Criticism
Distinctions between Affective Critics
Hamlet and His Problems: The Objective Correlative
Poetry, Emotions, Objects
The Fallacy of the Affective Fallacy
Part Two: The Intentional Fallacy
The Way of the World
Wimsatt and Beardsley’s Axioms
Intentionality and Romanticism
Eliot’s Intentions in ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
Part Three: The Apathetic Fallacy
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Overview - Presentation
Introducing Postcolonial Critical Theory
Spivak’s ‘Can the subaltern speak?’
Mobilizing postcolonial theory: ‘Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism’
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What does Barthes mean by ‘myth is a type of speech’?
In what ways is myth political (or depoliticized)?
How does myth relate to history and nature?
What is the function of modern myth?
Contains
PDF Lesson Presentation
Presentation Notes
Student workbook
In Unit 1 Lesson 1 we will be looking closely at
• Who is William Shakespeare?
• Shakespeare’s Life
• Facts and Rumours
• The Globe Theatre
David Lodge Nice Work Essay Exemplar
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‘If a literary text does something to its readers, it also simultaneously reveals something about them.’ – Wolfgang Iser
Discuss the relationship between a text and its reader(s) in ONE of the literary texts you have studied over the course of the module. You should reference at least TWO of the critical texts to make your arguments.
Does Food Advertising Encourage Healthy or Unhealthy Eating? Is it Always Truthful and Ethical?
Example of students speaking and listening presentation
Includes presentation notes
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Inspector Calls Sheila Exam question exemplar response - PDF download
Ideal for students to critic for revision
Includes extract from Inspector Calls
Question - Write about Sheila Birling and how she is presented at different points in the play. In your response
you should:
refer to the extract and the play as a whole.
show your understanding of characters and events in the play.
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Overview
New Criticism
Flashforward to T. S. Eliot
Flashback to I. A. Richards (and the Russian Formalists)
Against Paraphrase
Total Meaning
Irony
Democracy, Reality, Ambiguity
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1892)
Close Reading
Agrarianism and New Criticism
The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism
New Criticism: Literary Modernism and Social Change
John Crowe Ransom vs. Shakespeare
Rereading Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet XXXIII
After the New Criticism
Resource 1 - Word Document Download - Student Exemplar for descriptive writing - Graveyard - Ideal for students to critic
Resource 2 - PDF Download - Worksheet: Peer Assessing Descriptive Writing
Instructions:
In this worksheet, you will practice peer assessing descriptive writing. Follow the instructions for each activity carefully, and use the provided questions to guide your assessment. Remember to provide constructive feedback to your peers. Read the reflection questions at the end to think about your own learning and growth.
Materials Needed:
• Pen or pencil
• Descriptive writing samples from your classmates/examples provided
Resource 3 - PDF Download - A DESCRIPTION OF BEAUTIFUL SCENERY Handlout contains adjectives, focusing on the 5 senses and similes and metaphors
Report Writing Lesson
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Ideal for lower ability students
Covers the following:
Non- chronological report texts
Report Genres
Purpose and Needs of report writing
Audience
Planning and organising reports
Report Language features
Generalised Language and Technical Language
Alternative note taking frameworks
Examplar of report writing (Butterflies)
Step-by-step planning process.
Writing Instructions
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Topics covered:
What is an instruction text?
Types of Instruction Texts
Instruction Text – Needs and Purpose
Instruction Writing – Audience
How to plan instruction writing
Organising instruction texts
Instruction language features
Third person instructions
Alternative note taking frameworks
Instruction Example - Papier Mache Bowl
Overview of planning – Papier Mache Bowl
Writing to Persuade
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Topics covered:
What is a persuasive text?
Types of persuasive texts
Persuasive texts needs and purpose
Persuasive Writing – Audience
Planning Persuasive Writing
Elaborating a point
Persuasive Language Features
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Alternative note-taking frameworks
Example - Mary Queen of Scots
Analysis of the planning for Mary Queen of Scots exemplar
Ideal for low ability students