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Course survey 2024-2026
Area of exploration: Readers, writers and texts
Literary work: Ernest Hemingway, a collection of short stories (20th C, short stories):
-“Three Shots”
-“Indian Camp”
-“The End of Something”
-“Soldier’s Home”
-“Cat in the Rain”
-“Hills Like White Elephants”
-“A Clean Well-Lighted Place”
- “Midnight in Paris” (by Woody Allen, film)
Non-fiction: body of work: Michelle Obama Speeches
- DNC Speech 2016
- DNC Speech 2020
- DNC Speech 2008
- DNC Speech 2024
- Commencement Address
- Commencement Address
Literary work: Albert Camus The Outsider (20th C, novel)
Non-fiction body of work: Barbara Kruger art pieces
Global Issues: Art, creativity and the imagination / Beliefs, values and education / Culture, Identity and Community / Politics, Power and Justice
Concepts: identity, communication, culture, perspective, tranformation
Area of exploration: Time and Space
Literary work: Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale (20th C, novel)
Episode 1 of the HBO adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale (adaptation + intertextuality)
Literary work: Marjane Satrapi Persepolis (21st C, graphic novel)
- Film: Persepolis
Non-fiction: Body of work: George Monbiot essays
- "Thinking about Thinking" (2023)
- "Testeria" (2019)
- "Drums of War" (2016)
- "Rewild the Child" (2013)
- "Controlling and Coercive Behaviour" (2023)
Non-fiction body of work: WW1 British propaganda and recruitment posters
Non-fiction: Body of work: Nike commercials over time/advertising and social activism.
Global Issues: Beliefs, values and education / Culture, Identity and Community / Science, technology and the natural world / Politics, Power and Justice
Concepts: identity, culture, perspective, communication, transformation
Area of exploration: Intertextuality, connecting texts
Literary work: Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the only fruit (20th C, novel)
Non-fiction: Body of work: Pray Away (Netflix documentary by Kristine Stolakis, 2021)
Literary work: William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (16-17th C, drama) HL only
The play and intertextuality:
West Side Story (musical),
Brokeback Mountain (short story/film),
BBC series Noughts and Crosses
The original myth of Pyramus and Thisbe.
The Simpsons: The Daughter Also Rises
Global Issues: Art, creativity and the imagination / Culture, identity and community
Concepts: Representation, transformation, creativity
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