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Close textual engagement: Shakespeare
In this post I am considering how we might help students engage closely with text when studying Shakespeare. It is aimed, mainly at new A level Literature students, but should be equally accessible at GCSE, especially for higher sets. My …
On feuds: Twain is echoing real life
I found this article in Lapham’s Quarterly. It is required reading for anyone teaching or reading Huckleberry Finn for OCR: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rivalry-feud/loves-labors-lost Read More "On feuds: Twain is echoing real life"
TEACHING ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’
As retirement looms again, I am sorting my old folders and have come across some ACC teaching materials which may be of use. I am uncertain of their provenance - certainly I wrote some but I suspect that my wonderful …
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 …
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