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My YouTube videos which explain Wilfred Owen’s Exposure and Spring Offensive

francisgilbert — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:14:57 +0000

YouTube videos which explain Exposure:

An explanation of Exposure:

Pathetic Fallacy in Exposure:

Structure and Para-rhyme in Exposure:

Alliteration in Exposure and Spring Offensive:

The background to Exposure:

An explanation of Spring Offensive:

Wilfred Owen’s poetry — a Prezi with links to YouTube explanations of the poems

francisgilbert — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:09:40 +0000

Wilfred Owen’s poetry and life on Prezi

Louisa Young on her novel about the First World War.

francisgilbert — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:02:23 +0000

Louisa Young is the author of the powerful novel, My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You, which is about a soldier who is horribly disfigured during the First World War. This is the video that the publishers made about the book:

This is her explanation of how she came to write the book:

The Machine Gunners — Teaching Activities, links and videos

francisgilbert — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:46:03 +0000

BBC Schools Radio has produced an excellent scheme of work on The Machine Gunners, which can be accessed here.

Dream of a lost friend by Carol Ann Duffy

francisgilbert — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:57:01 +0000

Dream of a lost friend Related posts:Dramatising your life Re-writing autobiographical extracts, editing and improving them Lost Boys — A Book Review Related posts:

An introduction to A2 Media Studies OCR, Collective Identity

francisgilbert — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:02:59 +0000

Task: Devise your own Prezi which explores all the groups you feel a part of and which ones you feel define you, and which definitely do NOT.

My collective identities on Prezi

How did Edinburgh influence the writing of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

francisgilbert — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:08:26 +0000

I think I’m getting a bit better at making these videos now. I produced this video for my GCSE pupils who have not been to Edinburgh but really need to know how the city influenced the writing of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for their English Literature exam. Robert Louis Stevenson had a love-hate relationship with the city; Edinburgh’s polarities of the Old and New Town, of the very religious and the deeply sinful, of the scientific and the superstitious profoundly inform the pages of his most successful novella.

Media Studies: John Dunford, Head of Media Studies, and student blog links.

francisgilbert — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:55:40 +0000

The Head of Media Studies at my school has his blog here. It is full of useful links and information.

A2 students:

http://linhamr3m4.wordpress.com/

http://danielbmedia.wordpress.com/

http://alexoconnor2.wordpress.com/

http://missemilystevens.wordpress.com/

http://joannebones.wordpress.com/

http://www.lukedarlingslifeblog.blogspot.com/

http://mollycliftona2.wordpress.com/

http://rachelhelsby2.wordpress.com/

Collective Identity — Media Studies, Youth Demonisation

francisgilbert — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:53:00 +0000

There’s a useful blog on Collective Identity connected with Youth Demonisation here, devised by a chief examiner at OCR. Related posts:An introduction to A2 Media Studies OCR, Collective Identity Media Studies: John Dunford, Head of Media Studies, and student blog links. Five reasons why Media Studies is a great subject Related posts:

How to understand Shakespearean language: modernise it and make it fun.

francisgilbert — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:26:02 +0000