1 Taster Session P1 and 1 Fri 30th June Prose – Handmaid’s Tale

2 The power of voice DISCUSSION POINTS:Does the way we express a point of view matter? Does gender affect the way we express ourselves? Can a man and a woman get away with saying “You look sexy!” to the opposite sex? Then read transcript

3 E.Q.: how far do you agree that Trump is harmless?“locker room banter” “boys will be boys” E.Q.: how far do you agree that Trump is harmless? Focus on how their voice creates a character – language/expression Are the length of the utterances of any significance in creating their voice?

4 Exploring Narrative Voice in Prose at A-levelBIG QUESTION: Does it matter who narrates a story? Consider: Who is our narrative voice? Participant in the story? Detached observer? Female/ male voice – does that matter? Does the language/description used for the narrative voice by for the writer matter? Does the narrative voice portray the male character as a minor role in this extract? In order to address these questions you need to unpick the BIG PICTURE idea in this extract. Does the choice of female voice alienate male readers? The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told … fundamentally affects the way readers will respond, emotionally and morally, to the fictional character and their actions.

5 Critical Theory at A-levelHistorical – 1985 Psychoanalytical Feminist in Trump Era Each group takes on a theory and now looks at the extract using this theory. Psycho – state of mind of narrative voice. Has their reading changed from their initial ideas on narrative voice.

6 A-level English Literature at LPGSGrade requirement 7,7 but we will see what grades come out on results day and take it from there Unlike Langley Boys we do Edexcel which is an open book exam For Prose we do Beloved and Dracula but this is being discussed and may change so feel free to read the other named texts which are on your summer task sheet. Shakespeare is up to teacher: we like Othello, King Lear (on at Globe till Oct) and Hamlet Coursework: we have two anchor texts but then we have a complementary wider reading list which you can choose from. We like to give choice and help you choose a book which allows you to show your strengths We are one of the only schools working with Edexcel who had our coursework completed by December in Year 13 which meant we had time to dedicate to revising texts and we were commended for this by the exam board Specialisms at KS5 in our dept: Irish literature and gender theory; post-colonialism and Jacobean tragedy; modernism and American Literature and identity - works well with the Edexcel texts About us

7 Competition Time – Summer TaskExciting opportunity to show off your passion for English and be a published writer EMC – educational company. We take A-level students to many lectures run by this organisation Deadline for entry and copy to teacher: 11th September https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/site/competition-detail/forward-emagazine-student-critics-competition

8 Ideas for a different taster: Poetry- eat me

9 “I know that person. That person was a Miss Universe person“I know that person. That person was a Miss Universe person. And she was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst, she was impossible….She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem. We had a real problem.” Discuss what his use of language reveals about him and attitude to others eg. Repetition, short sentences, metaphor “She was a Miss Piggy” The Power of Words

10 Who holds the power in this videoWho holds the power in this video? What ideals of beauty are being explored? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lW8MJjHeQ OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpXsAoXZIMg Up to 2.50 OR UP TO 2.08

11 Collapse poem When I hit thirty, he brought me a cake, three layers of icing, home-made, a candle for each stone in weight. The icing was white but the letters were pink, they said, eat me. And I ate, did what I was told. Didn’t even taste it. Then he asked me to get up and walk round the bed so he could watch my broad belly wobble, hips judder like a juggernaut. The bigger the better, he’d say, I like big girls, soft girls, girls I can burrow inside with multiple chins, masses of cellulite. I was his Jacuzzi. But he was my cook, my only pleasure the rush of fast food, his pleasure, to watch me swell like forbidden fruit. His breadfruit. His desert island after shipwreck. Or a beached whale on a king-size bed craving a wave. I was a tidal wave of flesh too fat to leave, too fat to buy a pint of full-fat milk, too fat to use fat as an emotional shield, too fat to be called chubby, cuddly, big-built. The day I hit thirty-nine, I allowed him to stroke my globe of a cheek. His flesh, my flesh flowed. He said, Open wide, poured olive oil down my throat. Soon you’ll be forty… he whispered, and how could I not roll over on top. I rolled and he drowned in my flesh. I drowned his dying sentence out. I left him there for six hours that felt like a week. His mouth slightly open, his eyes bulging with greed. There was nothing else left in the house to eat. Eat me – work on language patterns etc, what they think it’s about. Then read properly discuss ideas of power and control

12 Critical Theory Feminist Post - colonial PsychoanalyticalEach group takes a positions and now reads the poem as that person. Perhaps give them specific quotes to look at