The ending of 1984 (Warning: contains spoiler!) :-o

The nice thing about doing ‘contemporary’ texts in English, rather than say Shakespeare or the ancient Greeks, is that you can sometimes see videos or hear audio of the writer themselves. Here’s Orwell’s own reading of the last pages of 1984.

1984: the comic

Studying 1984 and finding it a little difficult? You’re probably not alone. It’s a dense and politically orientated text, presenting us with a very different and very frightening future.
You might find the COMIC version of Chapter 1 and 2 might help find your way into the text. It WONT replace a reading, but it might [...]

Getting into the heads and hearts of characters

“Above all, I wanted to know the individuals, to get into their heads and their hearts. In all their variety of personalities, they must have been like [...]

Walking the Dog

Students studying Martin Flanagan’s book The Line for the ‘Encountering Conflict’ context for AOS2 might be interested to find that Flanagan has just begun a regular blog at the AGE HERE.
Could be worth keeping an eye on it as the year develops.
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