AS LL- STREETCAR AND SPIES INDEPENDENT WORK

It is vital that you work independently outside of class times. Unless you develop and sustain independent work it is likely you will not achieve the grade you want in this subject.

You should read A Streetcar Named Desire and Spies as an ongoing project. Making notes on each scene or chapter as you read.

You should make notes in a file or exercise book.

Here is a list of some topic areas you should make notes on for both texts but as you do this be aware that each text uses different conventions of genre - one drama the other prose fiction.

• Consider what happens in each chapter or scene.
• Make a note of the structure of each text.
• What are the characteristics of the main characters.
• Comment on the settings in each text and its significance.
• Note the language being used to tell the story of each text.
• Think about the narrative voice or voices of each text.
• Identify topics and themes throughout the texts.
• Note down important quotations.

I will ask to see your notes to make sure you are keeping up with your independent reading.

We will begin studying Spies just before the end of this term. Therefore it is important that you have read the novel by the end of term.

I will post a reading timetable to help you with this. I expect you have now completed your first reading of Streetcar.

I will assume you have read these texts when we discuss them in class.

You must also read the passage we have just covered in class at home making further notes and you must read the passage in preparation for the next lesson.