Year 12 live observation

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
Othello by Shakespeare
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Quick review of what the students did last lesson - review of different types of fairy tale through Post Modernism and Feminism
LH relates the retelling of fairytales to Shrek and the active participation of Princess Fiona
Post Modern/modernism - referencing other texts including media texts (intertextual references), it's playful - it plays with form and language, it involves reader interpretation through a shared culture. It's a style not a time period.
Feminism - exploring something from a female perspective that empowers the female.
LH uses the trailer of a film from The Company of Wolves which is written by Angela Carter. It portrays the girl as not as naive as the fairy story. The age of the protagonist in a fairy story is usually 12 or 13 because of menstruation. What does the wolf symbolise in the trailer? (human animalism - lycanthropy, dangerous and exciting) We can now separate between sex and fertility, at the time you couldn't, thus Carter has brought it into the 21st century.
LH then relates this to Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy. http://thepoemoftheweek.blogspot.co.uk/2006/01/poem-of-week-1162006-little-red-cap.html Contextually Duffy had a relationship with an older male poet, so the poem could be considered to be biographical.
The stanzas of the poem are then split up and students are asked annotate the poem.
LH is moving around the room and discussing key ideas with the students.
On the board LH has written the following words under the title essays - betrayal, power relationships, relationships, social expectations, jealousy, marriage.
Also, how does the poem relate to Post Modernism - fairy story, form and Feminism - at the end of the poem the woman has the power with the axe.
After the students have discussed their ideas they feed them back verbally to the rest of the class.
There are only 13 students in this class.
For homework the students are asked to read the information about the poem that this on their blog.