ENGA2 English Language resource sharing: June 2008

Monday, June 23, 2008

Disarming Britain

Site supporting Channel 4's season on gun and knife crime in Britain.

The programmes themselves could be good for use in class and might help with resources from other modes, plus there's a blog and sets of links to other sites focusing on the issue.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Welcome to new contributors

There are quite a few new contributors joining and what I've done so far is to make everyone an "editor" which means you can all post new material to the blog without it going through the site administrator (me). Hopefully that's the most straightforward and democratic way of running it.

For anyone new to blogging, we can't actually host any files here: what we can do is link to other sites and add a few comments about what might be useful about the links (although that's not absolutely necessary). If you do want to share actual resources beyond links, I have purchased some webspace under a similar name to this blog and we can use that. Just email me if you want some material to go on the site, or if you want help with anything on here.

When you post, there are tags and categories that can be added to help place the different links in the right topic areas. I've tried to base the ones posted so far on the categories in the AQA A spec for this unit, but if you think of your own tags, just add them as you see fit.

With a bit of luck we'll soon have lots of stuff to share and loads of ideas to think about.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Representation of soldiers' wives and partners

From today's Sun. Might be good for its obviously gendered construction of Daniel Gamble's girlfriend's identity ("Heartbroken Tammy", "Inconsolable Tammy" , "pretty shop assistant Tammy").

Social groups - "pikeys"

BBC Magazine article on the word "pikey"

Wikipedia's definitions of "pikey"

Sunday, June 8, 2008

ENGA2 - representation of Muslims in Britain

The Guardian - Inside the world of UK Muslim women:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/01/britishidentity.islam?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

The Guardian - Recognise our role in society

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jan/21/islamandbritain.comment5

International Herald Tribune - Head-to-toe Muslim veils test tolerance of secular Britain

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=6263112

Muslim Women's Sport Foundation in the media

http://www.mwsf.org.uk/media.html

Majeds Blog - Do Muslim Women Need Empowering?

http://majedsblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/event-analysis-do-muslim-women-in-britain-need-empowering/

The Daily Mail - Hairdresser sued for refusing to hire Muslim woman in a headscarf

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492407/Hairdresser-sued-refusing-hire-Muslim-woman-headscarf.html

Muslim Parents Association UK - Shaping the Future: A Call to Parents

http://www10.brinkster.com/muslimpa/parenting1.asp

War in Afghanistan - reports from Telegraph

I thought these were good links to articles about the war in Afghanistan and a video diary that might be good for transcription and analysis. The Telegraph articles are by Thomas Harding and I think they'd be interesting to analyse on their own as texts as well as ones to group together for study on ENGA2.

Telegraph article on paratroopers' assault on Taliban

Paratroopers launch surprise attack

Video diary