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An introduction: welcome to my blog.

jwpblog October 29, 2017

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Art as context in A level English Literature

jwpblog May 7, 2017

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. …

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Jerusalem (Butterworth): feel the ‘beat’

jwpblog April 3, 2017

Following a comment by Martin Robinson in his excellent presentation at Research Ed: Language, I am going to engage students with some specific focus on the 'Beat' stage direction which appears throughout the text. Students can be confused by a …

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Chaucer’s Love Garden: A Merchant’s Tale

jwpblog March 13, 2017

Students are usually aware of the narrative form of the poem, one which blends the realistic with the fantastic and the symbolic, yet there is often room for discussion of the symbolic importance of the Love Garden which Januarie builds …

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“Jerusalem is the most Shakespearean of Butterworth’s plays”. Looking at the play, what are the features which reflect this cultural heritage.

jwpblog January 5, 2017

A series of student essays in response to the above. I like the discussion of double entendre and sexual allusion in this one It is said that Butterworth’s ‘Jerusalem’ has irrefutable references to Shakespeare and cultural literary heritage. Like Shakespeare, …

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Jerusalem (Butterworth): Term Paper collection

jwpblog December 6, 2016

I thought I would collect a few essays written this term about Jerusalem by my Lower 6th Boys.  I believe these to contain some excellent material, perhaps not in the form of model essays for examination, but in the form …

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“To know Curley’s Wife would be to love her…” A response

jwpblog April 2, 2014

Driven by a feeling that students tend to take Curley's Wife at facevalue, even when encouraged to think beyond the obvious, I recently set an essay based on this quotation by John Steinbeck. The PowerPoint attached seeks to address the …

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A give back: Marking US lit A levels

jwpblog February 13, 2019

I recently set this essay for my Upper 6th.   The results were variable. For many the essay swiftly became an exercise in listing isolated characters or situations and the Assessment Objectives became lost. The driving AO is AO3 in …

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Unseen give back

jwpblog February 12, 2019

The unseen from Wright's 'Man who was almost a man' with discussion of unseen technique and direct reference to a student unseen, attached below. https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/190212_001.mp3 Doc3 Read More "Unseen give back"

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USA Lit unseen: Richard Wright

jwpblog February 11, 2019

This week the unseen is from Richard Wright's  The Man Who Was Almost A Man. Whilst the book was published in the 1960s, the content and style make it eminently suitable for unseen practice. Richard Wright's short story entitled The …

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Gatsby essay planning idea

jwpblog February 8, 2019

Today my Upper 6th class were recovering from a late night: a trip to an Immersive Gatsby performance. We were looking at planning essays - specifically finding good links between the ideas which make up an essay. Rather than a …

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USA Lit contexts booklet (OCR)

jwpblog February 5, 2019

My Upper 6th are preparing contexts booklets to help them prepare for the OCR A level AO3 strand. I am placing them here to help them to find them swiftly when not in school. Please feel free to browse and …

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Planning with SCASI: La Belle Dame

jwpblog January 31, 2019

My teaching for Y10 today - I want the boys to find this PPt.... Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci given the SCASI method on the tables. planning; scasi approach   Read More "Planning with SCASI: La Belle Dame"

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Sample American Literature unseens

jwpblog January 29, 2019

3 groups of texts for students to practice their unseens: american-literature-extracts-1880-1900 american-literature-extracts-1901-1920 american-literature-extracts-1921-1940 Read More "Sample American Literature unseens"

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