AWE Club – Literary Studies The Bronte Sisters

The Bronte Sisters

Lindsey is an experienced teacher and has worked with many Home Educated students. She understands her students are all individuals and will endeavour to help them to get the best out of the course and aim for a successful outcome. She is used to students with anxiety and will gently encourage them and help to build their self-confidence. We are happy to accommodate children’s preferences around webcams and microphone being on or off or similar needs.

Course Details

An interesting course for students aged 11 and over. There are weekly lessons of one hour each to cover the following topics –

• Themes of Freedom and Imprisonment within Charlotte Bronte’s novel, ‘Jane Eyre (1847)
• Christian Themes within the novel, ‘Jane Eyre.’
• The study of the novel, ‘Jane Eyre’ as a picaresque and an epistolary novel.
• Why Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte wrote under male pseudonyms.
• How Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ is based on the author’s own life.
• Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights-To explore this as a Gothic novel.
• ‘Wuthering Heights-Does pathetic fallacy enhance the atmosphere of this novel?
• Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Villette’-Is the personality of Lucy Snow (the protagonist) as cold as her surname?
• The ‘invisibility’ cloak of Villette’s Lucy Snow.

Homework

Homework is set weekly and gently encouraged by Lindsey but we recognise that Home Educated students may choose for themselves whether to complete it.
Recordings are available after each lesson.
Lindsey will email resource pdfs dependant on the abilities and ages of the students.

This is not an exam course but does support parts of the National Curriculum so is a good back up for English Language and Literature.