to our year 11 blog about all things literary. Not only about the books we're reading, but the authors, their society, related movies, criticisms, newspaper articles, radio programmes - anything that we can share to enrich our literature studies. Of course, this does not exclude the trivial and frivolous detail that we all find as we trawl the net, wander through bookstores, watch the tele, and pore over poetry books, texts, and magazines.
Please use this blog to alert all your fellow literature classmates of anything of interest you see, read, hear. Most importantly, please contribute your thoughts and opinions about our current texts. Ask questions, seek clarification, comment on where you're at!
I will be posting and will require you to respond at least once a week - not to me specifically, but you must be accessing this blog and contributing. This is a social classroom, so, just as in class, we all need to hear each otehrs voices!
This site is not for you to answer questions I pose (that will happen occasionally), but for all of us to share what we learn, and how we learn, and what we love, and what we - um - maybe don't love but hopefully find interesting nonetheless!
Please post a comment to let everyone know that you've visited your 11 Blog About Lit.
Happy reading, and blogging, JC
Hello my fellow literature buddies!!
ReplyDeleteI am in Malaysia chilling at the net cafe and finally found the blog so here I am!
so.. yeah.
Reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (started it on the plane) and it is really good! I also recommend The Chocolate War :)
byebye!!
~Ashie~
Thanks Ash, for letting us know that you are happily reading and have foudn our blog. You're the only one to contribute , and you're over in Malaysia!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying Dr J & Mr H. A great Victorian novel, which says much about the anxieties of the period, and how concerned people were about outward appearances. The Victorians are stereotyped as being conservative, refined, buttoned up, following rules - and RLS posits that there may well be a darker side to all of us, in which innate evil and passion resides. Always good to read a text that has become part of the lexicon, and even a cliche! JC
Hi everyone its Rosa! just posting a comment to say i have officially contributed to our lit blog.
ReplyDeletethe other night I watched Sylvia the movie in order to get a better picture of her and her life. I found that the movie was really interesting because prior to watching the film, I stereotped Sylvia as basically a mad woman with only bad thoughts in her mind. However by the end of the film I actually found myself crying because i finally saw her as a woman who wasn't mad but in pain. she seemed to have so much pain and anger within her that she didn't know what to do about it. I really enjoyed Gwenyth Paltrow's performance as personally i believe she really captured the true essence of Sylvia, something the world never actually saw. Just like to reinforce that the film was of great benefit to me and my understanding of her and her novel The Bell Jar.
have a good weekend! see you all monday morning!!!
Rosa xoxo