Loss Of Innocence (part 3, sample)

Part 3: Loss of Innocence

Learning outcome: Understand the attitudes and values expressed by literary texts and their impact on readers.

Area: context of reception, including individual reader, influences the way a text is read

Warmers

- Q and A Ryan Commission Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jHqndf9Kx4

- Philip Larkin “This Be the Verse”: http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm

- Carol Ann Duffy “ We Remember Your Childhood Well” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetduffy/werememberrev1.shtml ; including lessonplan)

Main Works

PLT: The Story of Zahra, H. Al-Shaykh (Lebanon, 1980)

PLA: The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA, 1850)

SFS: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle (Ireland,1993) and/or Notes on a Scandal Zoe Heller (UK,2003)