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English Language and Literature
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Welcome to English Language & Literature!
This is an exciting course designed to further your understanding of how language works, as well as developing your knowledge and appreciation of a range of literary texts.
What to expect:
• We read literary and non-literary texts and use stylistics approaches to closely analyse the language of the texts.
• We explore the context of texts so we gain a deeper understanding.
• We are interested in representation – how do different speakers and writers present their own ideas?
• We build up a toolkit of terms in order to comment on the language of a text.
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What do we study?
We will study a range of literary and non-literary texts.
In year 1 we will cover:
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
An anthology of non-fiction texts about the city of and life in Paris
In year 2 we will cover:
A collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
You will also complete a coursework unit. This will be an independent research project.
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Meet the Teachers
Claudia Algieri
Welcome to A Level English Lang & Lit at St Brendan’s! I have been teaching at the college since 2014 on A Level English Lang & Lit, A Level English Language and on GCSE English. St Brendan’s is a great, friendly place to work and to learn as you will soon find out!
I love our English Lang & Lit course. It has been thoughtfully designed so that we study diverse and relevant texts like The Kite Runner & The Handmaid’s Tale and classics such as A Streetcar Named Desire and the linguistic approach to these texts will give you a whole new perspective on them.
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Meet the Teachers
Helen Urbanowicz
I've taught at the college for 6 years, both on A Level English Language and Literature and GCSE English. I love working at St Brendan's; it's friendly and fun! I enjoy teaching all aspects of our Language and Literature course, but I especially like teaching dystopian texts like The Handmaid's Tale. It's so topical and students love discussing it! I also enjoy reading lots of other genres and look forward to hearing about what you've been reading over the summer too.
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English Language & Literature Transition Task
Paris: A city of love & romance?
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Differing perspectives
What is your experience of 'city' life?
How is it different when you are a tourist compared to living somewhere?
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Connotations of Paris
What comes to mind when you think of the city of Paris?
What kind of things are associated with it?
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Contrasting Perspectives: How is Paris presented?
On the next slide are 2 trailers for films about Paris, but they provide very different representations of the city.
Watch each trailer and make notes on how Paris is represented in both.
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Contrasting Perspectives: How is Paris presented?
Midnight in Paris
Link to trailer: https://youtu.be/FAfR8omt-CY
La Haine
Link to trailer: https://youtu.be/5Hs6GwQPAQE
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Writing about cities
• What sort of texts are about cities?
• What is the purpose of these texts?
• Who is the audience?
• How can you recognise that these texts are different?
• What questions do you need to 'ask' about a text in order to explore it?
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Framework for analysis
• Structure and Discourse
How is the text organised and structured? How is it broken down? How does it add to the meaning of the text?
• Lexis and Semantics
What type of words does the text use? What are the relationships between them? How do they add to the meaning of the text?
• Grammar
How are sentences created? How are phrases and sentences used? How does they add to the meaning of the text?
• Phonology
How is sound used? What is the rhythm of the text? How does sound add to the meaning of the text?
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Prediction Task: Bill Bryson's'Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe’
In the morning I got up early and went for a long walk through the sleeping streets. I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.
I know Baron Haussmann made Paris a grand place to look at, but the man had no concept of traffic flow. At the Arc de Triomphe alone thirteen roads come together. Can you imagine that?
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Exploring an extract
• Read the whole extract.
• What is the text about? What are his key ideas and attitudes to the city of Paris?
• How does Bryson present Paris in the extract?
• Choose at least three sentences that are important in Bryson's presentation of Paris.
• Consider a range of literary and linguistic devices, using the framework.
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So....
Q: Is Paris a city of love and romance?