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Exploring grief in the Edexcel IGCSE anthology
Year 11: here are your table top notes.... dig in! Table tops PDF: table tops for grief Read More "Exploring grief in the Edexcel IGCSE anthology"
Tissue: Dharker, for GCSE…
My twitter timeline has pulsed with tearful teachers reaching for their tissues - and I don't blame them. This poem, a feature of the AQA anthology for GCSE is hard and seemingly impenetrable for many teachers, let alone students. In …
On bookcovers and Gatsby: setting expectations.
I have selected a few of the many bookcovers designed to help to sell Fitzgerald's novel. With a text such as this, students are in an odd position: many will know of the text and some will have seen the …
The Trick: Imtiaz Dharker for IGCSE unseen poetry.
I have just been hosting a support class for some of my students - not natural English students, for whom an unseen is a bit of a nightmare -a blank page, a barrage of words and no teacher to lead …
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A level UNSEEN: USA lit for OCR.
Here is a model response to a passage from Frances Harper's Iola Leroy, written in 1892. I wrote this in 55 minutes and offer it as a starting point in discussion of the techniques required for A level unseens. All …
My blog: I blog because I am a teacher.
Last night my blog hit a milestone for which I have been waiting over the last few weeks - it has been a long time coming and certainly has not been a driving force behind my posts, but it has …
On racism and the banning of Huckleberry Finn
Two essays on the topic of banning Huckleberry Finn: one for, one against. The task is the kind of task I like to set to draw ideas together from the teaching, whilst challenging the boys to explore and respond personally. …
