Cultural Parasite

The title of the lesson was Cultural Parasite. (obviously).

We were then asked what we wanted to learn today as our 'starter;. There were many options but I chose 'I want to know about parasites and hwo they relate to Heathcliff'. After that we looked at a painting that we had "seen loads of times before" (we'd never seen it before). It was called The Sleep of Reason Berings Forth Monsters by someone called Goya.

After that we moved on to our 'main course'. The question I picked for this was 'has any of this lesson been about you'. The answer was no. Then we read 'Victorian Gothic' by Julian Wolfreys and analysed it. We then split up in to small groups, with each one of the 3 groups being given one of Macbeth, Bloody Chamber or Wuthering Heights. My group was assigned the Bloody Chamber and we had to make a table showing the book's "relevant societal fears or 'deeper wounds'" and then display "how these fears are shown in the text". After gathering this information we swapped one person in our group who then went off to another group and shared the knowledge.

Finally, the dessert was served and the question on the menu I chose was "what has this lesson reminded you of?". My answer was 'parasites'.

Homework: Re-read the article we read (Victorian Gothic by Julian Wolfreys) and make notes.

Before any moans, I realise I wrote this late, but of couse thats no excuse for not doing your homework. And we have english after school, too (cant wait!!!!!!!!!!)

Daniel.