OIB with MrsC

 Off Colour A review by Goodreads: Off Colour by   Jackie Kay   (Goodreads Author)   3.55   ·      Rating details  ·    47 ratings   ·    7 reviews These poems explore illness, sickness and health, past and present, in a dynamic and original way. They examine not only the sick body but the sick mind and sick society, racism and prejudice. It is Jackie Kay''s third collection.' Blackwell's Review: These poems explore illness, sickness and health, past and present, in a dynamic and original way. They examine not just the sick body, but the sick mind, the sick society, the sickness of racism and prejudice. Here are fresh voices, black people from Britain's past, the voice of a dying Sunday, the voice of a woman dying at the hands of the immigration authorities. The book grapples with obsessions: teeth, death, sex, colour, health. It is a book for our troubled times, both strange and funny. A virus runs through ...

Homework for the October holidays.  1. Finish Dracula. 2. Using Dracula, Dorian Gray, and the six Gothic poems and wider knowledge of gothic theme, begin your research project on your Key Issue, and the pathway you would like to explore.  Due Date: December 9th 2022 Steps for Gothic Project. 1. Finish Dracula 2. Go back to your Key Issue and really think about how that topic makes your brain work! What do you find interesting about this Issue, and what particular angle would you like to explore? 3. Create a ‘your own pathway’ through this Key Issue by creating a thesis statement/question you would like to explore through your project. 4. Create a Google Doc with other members of your group. You should each have a different pathway/question. 5. Use the holidays to explore your Key Issue and decide on how you want to present your project. You can decide on the format (essay/blog/folder with extensive notes), but ALL students in the class must be able to access and use/copy your ...

  Chapter 3 Dracula Horror : graphic depictions of violence + supernatural intervention / death + degradation Terror (which gothic writers Ann Radcliff considered superior): sense of dread unknown. Obscurity is necessary. Dread : fear of what will happen next “Dread of this place” (p41) and “a dread_ loneliness” (the use of the noun dread as an adjective emphasizes the importance of these two words). Madness: “May I not go mad, if I am not already mad” (p43)  In the 19 th century gothic, the body itself is the site of haunting and transgressed.  Ch. 3 brings a weird contact with the idea of terror and horror (see difference in the definitions above).  Task: find quotes supporting those thesis Jonathan: Helpless “behaved like a rat in a trap” (p.34) -> animal imagery, and a trapped rat is dead “I was a prisoner” (p.34) “I am in prison” (p.34) “I am deceived like a baby” (p. 34) -> being a baby is not a good thing in that novel “My helplessness overpowered al...

 Hello, To be honest about things and so you know, many students are  using this online version of Dracula in class.  Hope it helps ! :-) Mrs C

The Doors: When You're a Stranger  has great lyrics for this chapter.... Hint: Enjoy this 1980's film, Lost Boys . Sana has written a clever summary of Dracula's appearance: In the second chapter of the Gothic novel, Dracula, the audience gets to take a closer look at the Count. Through Johnathan Harker’s diary we get a glimpse of his “first” encounter with Dracula that takes place on May the 5th. According to Jonathan Dracula has a long thin nose “high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils”, a protruding forehead “lofty domed forehead”, sharp teeth “peculiarly sharp white teeth [...] protuberant teeth”, bushy eyebrows and mustache “his eyebrows were very massive [...] under the heavy moustache”, cruel looking mouth and red lips “the mouth [...] rather cruel looking [...] the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed”, a totally pale complexion “his ears were pale [...] the back of his hands [...] they had seemed rather white”, and finally sharp fingernails...

  The European Fantastic Film Festival is on in Strasbourg  for the next 2 weeks in Strasbourg... and they are showing Dracula !

Class on Friday 16 September In turn, each group will give a short presentation teaching us about their poems from Severe Gale 8. Each presentation should begin with a reading. Presentation order. 1.  8h10-8h20/25 Summer Storm, Capolona (p47) 2. 8h25-8h40 In the Seventh Year (p50) 3. 8h40-9h Whilst Leila Sleeps (p65) 4. 9h05-9h25 The collection of 3 dramatic monologues on AIDS. In preparation for the Jackie Kay written paper scheduled for Friday 23 September. 2 hour exam (8h-10h, arrive early/start early !). Open book - you can bring your photocopied poems, class notes, and your copy of Darling . You can hand write or type your paper.  You will have a choice of three questions. Themes which can be of interest? Exploration of gender Exploration of identity Racism Adoption Feelings of not belonging/belonging Black Atlantic The Natural World Memory Family / Family relationship Music Voices Choices Love Melancholy Hope  Acceptance ADVICE Remember, trust your instincts but a...