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Thursday, 20 February 2020

Journey's End: Lesson Ten

Journey's End: Context

Journey's End: Characters

Journey's End: WW1 Reading List

WWI READING LIST

Contemporary with or soon after the War

Fiction

  • Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
  • W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, or: The British Agent 1928
  • Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front 1929

Drama

  • R. C. Sherriff, R.C. Journey's End, a Play in Three Acts (1929) 

Poetry

  • Anthem for Doomed Youth: Poets of the Great War (2000) 
  • Rupert Brooke, 1914 & other poems (Originally 1915) 
  • Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers (1918) 
  • Wilfred Owen, The Complete Poems and Fragments, two volumes  (Originally written during war) 
  • Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems (1918) 
  • Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War (2009) 
  • Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916)

Memoir

  • Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Originally 1930)
  • Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That (1957)
  • Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Man (1930)


Post-WWI interpretations

Fiction

  • Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy:
    • Regeneration (1992) 
    • The Eye in the Door (1994) 
    • The Ghost Road (1996) 
  • Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (1997) 
  • Susan Hill, Strange Meeting (1989) 

Further suggested reading lists can be found here:

Further links can be found here:

Journey's End articles



1. This article explores the role of the arts in the commemorating the First World War: https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/journeys-end-remembering-the-first-world-war

2. The Guardian's review of the film: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/01/journeys-end-review-sam-claflin-asa-butterfield-paul-bettany-first-world-war

3. Peter Maunder writes that 'Journey's End' is not an anti-war pla: http://theconversation.com/a-century-on-from-the-events-it-portrayed-journeys-end-is-a-reminder-that-war-is-hell-whoever-you-are-91994

4. A review of the New York opening of 'Journey's End' in 1929: http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/ww1_play_JOURNEYS_END_by_RC_Sheriff-pdf

5. The producer of the film has written his perspective here: http://blog.cwgc.org/blog/journeys-end

6. This is an essay written for English students: https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/publications/bookmarks/WW1/2JourneysEnd.pdf

7. Here are the BBC Bitesize resources for 'Journey's End': https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z7q8t39/revision/1

Friday, 24 January 2020

Journey's End Talking through an extract

Here is a recording of me talking through the 'Osborne' extract at the end of Act One of 'Journey's End'

Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Journey's End Scheme of Work


WeekDayDatePeriodsPowerPointTopicText pagesHomework
1Wednesday8th January 20203+418 to 13Quiz 1
Friday10th January 20208+9213 to 16Poetry by Heart
2Monday13th January 20203+4216 to 22Poetry by Heart
Wednesday15th January 20203+4322 to 28
Friday17th January 20208+9Poetry by HeartQuiz 2
3Monday20th January 20203+4428 to 35
Wednesday22nd January 20203+4536 to 42Annotate past paper
Friday24th January 20208+9642 to 49Re-read Act One
4Monday27th January 20203+4Exam question
Wednesday29th January 20203+4FILM
Friday31st January 20208+9Feedback lesson50 to 59Rewrite targetted section
5Monday3rd February 20203+47
Wednesday5th February 20203+47Annotation
Friday7th February 20208+98Write an intro + 1st parag
6Monday10th February 20203+49
Wednesday12th February 20203+41072-80Read to end
Friday14th February 20208+9FILMRead to end
HALF TERM
1Monday24th February 20203+41072-80
Wednesday26th February 20203+41180 - 86Read the 'context' ppt and make bullet-pointed notes under each subtitle
Friday28th February 20208+91180 - 86Read the 'characters' ppt and make bullet-pointed notes under each subtitle
2Monday2nd March 20203+41286 - end
Wednesday4th March 20203+41286 - endWatch the recommended videos
Friday6th March 20208+9FILMRead the articles

Journey's End Quiz 1