1. April 2015 Revision L3 Challenge: using quotes
Point system:
Correct answer: 1
Significance: 2
Challenge/change/add: 3
Points deducted for every two cards left at the end: 1

2. What you should have (filled in) in your revision notes :
Your own targets
Grid to analyse key aspects of a text
How the story is told grid prose and poetry (filled in for as many chapters/verses as you can)
Auden connection grid
The Hero’s Journey grid for GG, AM and KR
Look on the Blog for everything you need! (Except your own targets.)

3. Finish presentation of Ancient Mariner Part 7
Most significant events
How they are told
Narrative voice, chronology, setting, language
30 min

4. Find quotes! Character Setting Themes Motifs/symbols
Group A1: Ancient Mariner
Group A2: The Kite Runner
Group B1: Auden
Group B2: The Great Gatsby
Character
Setting
Themes
Motifs/symbols

5. Find quotes for Aspects of Narrative
Group A1: Ancient Mariner
Group A2: The Kite Runner
Group B1: Auden
Group B2: The Great Gatsby

6. Who/what/where/why
High  in  a  white  palace  the  king’s daughter, the golden  girl...

7. Who/what/where/why
"Perspective is a luxury when your head is constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons." (p. 356) .

8. Interpretations
April 2015 Revision

9. Group A1
Points
Correct answer
Significance
Challenge/change/add
Cards left
Total
Group B1
Points
Correct answer
Significance
Challenge/change/add
Cards left
Total
Group A2
Points
Correct answer
Significance
Challenge/change/add
Cards left
Total
Group B2
Points
Correct answer
Significance
Challenge/change/add
Cards left
Total
Correct answer: Significance: 2
Challenge/change/add: Points deducted for every two cards left at the end: 1

10. Watch the opening and conclusion of Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of The Great Gatsby
What do you notice about the way he interprets:
the narrative voice
The symbolism
The American Dream
The setting
The characters
The dialogue: do any lines stand out?
Anything else that strikes you?
Is there anything that you can reinterpret/reassess as a result of looking closely at these clips?
Does the director bring out any meanings you hadn’t seen?

11. Watch these two versions of the Plaza Hotel scene.
What do you notice about the way the two directors interpret this pivotal scene? Look at:
The setting
The characters: their actions, dialogue, relationship to each other
The presentation of the lines
Is there anything that you can reinterpret/reassess as a result of looking closely at these clips?
Does the director bring out any meanings you hadn’t seen?

12.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (film dir: Marc Forster Watch the clip from the film of Hosseini talking about his novel. Make notes What do you notice about the way that the film differs from the novel?

13. https://vimeo.com/25287438 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrnrztzfHI
Alex Lifeson and Victor by WH Auden
Watch/listen to these two interpretations. In your view, what do they add/take away from the texts?
Alex Lifeson is accused of building on the misogynist aspects of the poem in his version of Victor, what do you think?

14. Iron Maiden and The Ancient Mariner
Iron Maiden and The Ancient Mariner
Why would a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden want to reinterpret The Ancient Mariner?
Are they successful?
Does it add anything to your understanding of the poem?