2013 Literature Students' Profile

In 2013 there will be at least 4 students who will be preparing for the AS and A Levels. Today morning Farheen and Tamanna had a discussion about the AS level texts. Farheen shall bring some of her AS texts and hand it over to Tamanna. Their respective texts are listed below.

Farheen

            Mid Summer Night’s Dream + Sense and Sensibility

            God of Small Things + Translations

Sense and Sensibility Links:

http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/emc-courses/JaneAusten-2011/Articles/TannerSS.pdf
http://www.penguinreaders.com/pdf/downloads/pr/teachers-notes/9781405882033.pdf
http://supadu.com/images/ckfinder/252/pdfs/sense_sensibility.pdf
http://novelinks.org/uploads/Novels/SenseAndSensibility/Concept%20Analysis.pdf

Raidah

           Unit 3: Songs of Ourselves + Passage to India
           Unit 4:   Streetcar named Desire + Ideal husband
           Unit 5:  Sense and Sensibility + Midsummer Night's dream
           Unit 6:   God of Small Things + Translations/Equus

Tamanna

            Unit 3: Songs of Ourselves + Passage to India

                        War, Death, Childhood, Time, Romance

            Unit 4: Streetcar Named Desire + Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Era

            Unit 1: Wuthering Heights + The Scarlet Letter + Poetry ( Landscape)
            Unit 2: The Spanish Tragedy + A Midsummer Night's Dream
            Unit 3: Captain Corelli's Mandolin + Tess of the D'Urbervilles + The Great Gatsby + Carol            Ann Duff " Rapture"
            Unit 4: Undecided [Streetcar, Salome, Taming of Shrew]

Class Work TODAY

1. Tanima started the day with a very shrill cry for help - the CAT issue.
2. Abrar spent a whole night at the Shahbag Square - appropriating free food and obscene language (the name of the toilets bearing the names of Collaborators).
3. Today we read a few pages from Three Men on a a Boat.
4. We again went through the Filming Shakespeare Contest. 
1. http://filmingshakespeare.com/
5. We discussed two possible story lines for the FILM - 
1. Shylock - A changeling from the Forest
2. Streeting Shakespeare (incorporating A Mid Summer Day's Dream)

Students have been assigned with the following task - 

• Write the first page of your script - we have discussed the storylines - but you can definitely deviate at  your own will. just remember one thing - Film is a Collaborative Art.

An overview of 2012 and Programs for 2013

It is after a long time I am writing for our BLOG. As you all know that I had been sick for a long 100 days, I hardly had time for posting on the BLOG.

A lot of things are expected to happen too. But before that I would like to recount a few things.

The year 2012 have seen a few interesting things:

1. A few students from our English Language / Literature Class have got admission in the following Colleges - Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke College, BROWN, U Chicago, Sarah Lawrence College, Augsburg College, SUNY Buffallo and Georgia Tech.
2. ALL of the students received significant amount of Financial Aid [Between 85% - 92%]
3. Our O Level Literature students got A and B grades.
4. Azima Tarannum [Sunbeams, Class-VIII student] got a Silver in Commonwealth Essay Competition.

In 2013 we have taken the following steps

1. We have already watched Satjit Ray's c‡_i cvuPvjx and we have had a long-drawn class on its specific aspects. The students also presented Sketches on different scenes.
2. We plan to watch a few more such Films.
3. We have also decided to Work on a Screenplay based on a Shakespeare Play and turn it into a Short Film AND send it to international Film Festival.  
4. A few students of our class got registered for the online Academic Courses in Algebra and Modernism.
5. We have decided to work on EMMA.
6. We have been working on a few Poems and Novels too.
7. I will assign everyone their individual Comprehension works to Improve their Comprehension Performance. I shall USE the book General Certificate English for this purpose.

Some Recent Class Items we have worked on:

1. Malala Yousoufzai: A whole class on her life and works
2. A whole class of discussion on Buuzkashi Boys, an Afgan shoe-string budget film being screened in the Cannes.
3. Satjit Ray's c‡_i cvuPvjx