A while ago I wrote a brief post including 3 19th century depictions of women as stimuli for A Doll's House. In this post I revisit them and add material from Medieval England for my students reading The Merchant's Tale. …
Year 7 and Chaucer
I love working on Chaucer in Year 7.... here is a short task to engage. I suggest following it with the Miller's description from the GP. 22 JWP chaucer material for BRDJMB Have fun.... Sadly we don't have time for …
Something happened: Reading the Boss in OMAM.
For the first time in around 15 years of teaching Steinbeck's text, I had a strange experience today with year 11. We are revising/revisiting the text for Edexcel IGCSE. It was read in Year 9 and now we are going …
My notes from #rED17
I attended Research Ed 17 in London at the weekend. Another wonderful day, and any teacher or manager who does not take advantage of CPD of this quality at around £8 a session should take a long, hard look in …
Why I attend ResearchED.
What's not to like? A conference run by teachers for teachers, which costs less to attend than a premier division football match, which offers around 100 speaking slots and for which the speakers- teachers, thinkers and politicians give their services …
Of Mice and Men: resources
I have taught this text for so long and seem to have overlooked posting resources to the blog... odd... I am not the author of all of these, but I have used them from time to time. I am largely …
Quick intro the OCR American Literature unseens
A powerpoint to give the outline of the SCASI approach to unseens. A level unseen intro Read More "Quick intro the OCR American Literature unseens"
Screencast to introduce Of Mice and Men
A 20 minute screencast to introduce Steinbeck's novella: Intro screencast Read More "Screencast to introduce Of Mice and Men"
