Year 7's favourite TV advertisement

Tell us about your favourite TV advertisement of all time!

Visit our wall here.

• You must upload a link to your favourite TV advertisement and explain why you like it (writing at least a paragraph).
• You should identify techniques (e.g. slogans, rhetorical questions, humour) used in this ad and explain how they are effective.
• You could comment on other people's posts.

 

American Literature - introductory reading

Hi Year 12,

Please see below a list of links to US short stories available to read online. They've been carefully selected by Mr Lakin and make a really good list of introductory reading to American Literature.

Enjoy!

Ms Cook

• Hermann Melivlle (Bartleby) http://www.bartleby.com/129/
•  Baldwin (Sonny's Blues) http://www.scribd.com/doc/7086554/Sonnys-Blues-by-James-Baldwin
•  Hemingway (White Elephants) http://www.jamesrament.com/a-short-story—hills-like-white-elephants-by-ernest-hemingway/
• John Cheever (The Swimmer) http://202.121.96.130/Download/20091207184417_734640623434.pdf
• Salinger (Collected) http://moodle.tbaisd.org/pluginfile.php/64355/mod_resource/content/1/Nine%2BStories%2Bby%2BJ.D.%2BSalinger.pdf
•  Barthelme (The School) http://www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/bart.html
•  O'Connor (A Good man is hard to find) http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html
•  Carver (Cathedral) http://www.misanthropytoday.com/cathedral-by-raymond-carver-weekend-short-story/
•  Updike (A&P) http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
•  Bukowski (Most Beautiful Woman in Town) http://allpoetry.com/poem/8509505-The_Most_Beautiful_Woman_In_Town-by-Charles_Bukowski
•  Proulx (Brokeback) http://nothing-rhymes-with-ianto.tumblr.com/post/8947836831/brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx
•  Foster Wallace (Good Old Neon) http://kalamazoo.coop/sites/default/files/Good%20Old%20Neon.pdf