Year+11

=The Great Gatsby=



The Great Gatsby - Text

Here are some short stories by FSF for you to read - the themes are similar to GG:





Here are some critical studies of FSF - his life and work - very useful for background reading!





Here are the complete texts of George Orwell's 1984 (where the idea of Room 101 comes from) and also some great short stories for you to enjoy:





Two websites that give good hints and tips about writing to persuade:

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If you are interested in finding out more about psychology after our work on the importance of empathy visit:

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And the following speech deserves to be printed in full - read and be persuaded that it's all gonna be ok!!!! During the moment of reading at least. This is language at its most uplifting and powerful:

**JOHN F KENNEDY, American president, inaugural speechJanuary 20, 1961** > 'So let **us** begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. **Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.**Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring the problems that divide us. > Let both sides join to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. **Together**let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tape the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. > Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah - to 'undo the heavy burdens ... and let the oppressed go free'. > Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation' - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. > **Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, north and south, east and west, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?** > In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, and the devotion which we bring to this endeavour will our country and all who serve it - and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. > And so, **my fellow-Americans**: ask not what your country will do for you - ask what you can do for your country. > My fellow-citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.'