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21 May 2015: Activity 2 – Language and atrocity One characteristic of Midnight’s Children that many readers find especially appealing is the richness of its prose, blending allusions to Bollywood film and literary and visual culture with the sound of the

21 May 2015: Activity 1 – Autobiographical Openings The first paragraph of Midnight’s Children proclaims its place in a long tradition of fictional autobiographies. Rushdie’s narrative voice is swiftly established; before we hear his name, Saleem Sinai has

3 Aug 2015: Activity 3 – Use your ImagiNation In 1983, a political scientist called Benedict Anderson published an important book called Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. One of the arguments he makes in it is

3 Aug 2015: Activity 4 - Speaking to / speaking for the nation You’ve been asked to think a lot about the way that we might read Midnight’s Children as a political text – as a book that has something to say about the real world through the fictions it

29 Oct 2015: Chirality in Chemistry. You may well have come across chiral molecules in chemistry although you don’t know. that you have. A really good example of this is with amino acids, all bar one of which are. chiral. To spot the chiral centre in a

29 Oct 2015: The Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules. These rules give the absolute configuration, R- and S- for each chiral center within a. compound. The chiral centers are names either R- or S-. To name a chiral center using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules:. 1) Identify a

10 Nov 2015: There are 10 in total. You will find the correct responses on the answer sheet (next download).

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - Rebellion or Revolution? Haitian Declaration of Independence Read a translation of the text of Haiti’s declaration of independence from 1804: http://today.duke.edu/showcase/haitideclaration/declarationstext.html Questions to think

10 Nov 2015: Key Concepts Clarkson Thesis: The argument put forward by English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) in his 1808 two-volume work on the history of the anti-slavery movement. Clarkson believed that abolition was a part of a progressive,

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - The Simple Past Tense Now that you are familiar with the plot of Rotkäppchen, watch this video on YouTube, it was made in a primary school, the children painted pictures and read the story out loud: