Lockdown culture podcast: Recent Episodes
Alice Hammel
Listen to your classmates "lockdown correspondence" and to this week's new assignment: watching an animated poem and reacting to it.
The poems are in this playlist.
Thanks to Anastasiia, Julie, Lucie, Fanny, Alexandra, Loïse, Pauline & Romane for their great answers about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time!
This week I just want you to record your reaction to a film/tv series/book/video game or something else you have enjoyed during the lockdown. It can be the same as the one you'll tell me about in our conversation. Listen to the end of the podcast to hear more.
You can hear an extract from one of my favourite podcasts at the end: Kermode and Mayo's Film Review.
For next week, if you don't want your answer to be anonymous, say your name at the beginning of the recording. If you prefer to stay anonymous, then don't :)
In this episode I ask you questions about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Send me answers to at least 2 of the questions in audio messages (put the question number in the title).
Here are the 8 questions. Listen to the podcast to hear me explain them a bit more.
- What genre is the second half of the book?
- Why does Haddon alternate chapters that tell the story, and chapters that are about memories, or essays about topics like God, mathematics, etc.?
- Can you identify with Christopher? Are you similar to him in some ways?
- Did you know that going through the world, for example using train stations, talking to strangers, could be so difficult for some people? Do you think, after reading the novel, that we should change some things about our world to make people like Christopher more welcome in it? What can we do?
- How did Mark Haddon succeed in conveying the feelings of other characters, like Christopher's parents and Roger, despite the narrator not being able to understand their feelings?
- Did you like the novel?
- Was it hard to read? Had you read a whole novel in English before? Do you want to do it again? (not for school)
- How do you think Christopher would cope with the lockdown?
Sources:
- Interview
- NPR Interview