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Love in OMAM?
My immediate response to this idea is surprise. I can identify some aspects of Love in the text, but for me the most consistent idea is the absence of love in almost every moment of the text. LOVE IS... Between …
Macbeth Quotation video
With immense thanks to Matt Lynch, whose original sets of images can be found on Lit Drive https://litdrive.org.uk/resources/macbeth-dual-coded-retrieval-practice-key-quotes-mly-2 and are things of beauty, I have made a video for my students to help with retention of key quotations. Please feel …
P2Q5: transactional viewpoint for AQA
So we know it is going to be a news article... that is helpful for our students who must be fed up to the back teeth with the amount of news articles they have been shown... p2q5-revisionDownload Anyway, here is …
Exam prep : AIC for AQA
A PowerPoint slide deck which will be used in the run up to the exams to reinforce techniques used in answering questions at GCSE. Work in progress, but feel free to use. aic-exam-prep-1Download Related articles: Considering Gerald Croft… the original cad …
Approaching an unseen poem for GCSE: video
Another post trying to help students to engage with unseen poetry. This is aimed predominantly at GCSE students but could be used in the L6th to begin to explore the use of SCASI before tackling longer prose extracts. https://www.loom.com/share/d673e01028ea4ed5bf765458c236fcc3 https://www.loom.com/share/d673e01028ea4ed5bf765458c236fcc3 …
Jerusalem returns
Later this month, Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem returns to the West End with a cast led by Mark Rylance who created the original Rooster Byron, and much as was feared when Burbage created all those great roles, we ask again: can …
Macbeth character shift essay: brief give back
I recently set my Year 11s an essay using the passage from 5.5 printed below. MACBETH I have almost forgot the taste of fears;The time has been, my senses would have cool'dTo hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hairWould …
A model response to P1Q4 for year 10
Aimed at my current y10s at WSE, but feel free to use. Based on a section of Birdsong which I found on LitDrive - the site which never stops giving and none of the best things to happen to English …
Revision: a short message
This is a message primarily for Y11 at John Lyon - my former employer - where I am acting as Head of English at the moment. https://www.loom.com/share/a4277668e58a4305ad66b6eb21799bc3 Read More "Revision: a short message"
Newspaper articles for AQA P2Q5
relevant to all for the ideas about Newspaper articles, this is the chosen topic for a lesson with Y10 before their mock GCSE paper 2 exam on Friday. It is, as ever, subject to change, but please feel free to …
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