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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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On feuds: Twain is echoing real life

jwpblog January 19, 2023

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"

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TEACHING ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’

jwpblog July 14, 2022

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 …

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Love in OMAM?

jwpblog May 26, 2022

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 …

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Macbeth Quotation video

jwpblog May 24, 2022

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 …

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P2Q5: transactional viewpoint for AQA

jwpblog May 17, 2022

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 …

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Exam prep : AIC for AQA

jwpblog May 12, 2022

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 …

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Approaching an unseen poem for GCSE: video

jwpblog April 19, 2022

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 …

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Jerusalem returns

jwpblog April 6, 2022

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 …

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Macbeth character shift essay: brief give back

jwpblog April 4, 2022

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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A model response to P1Q4 for year 10

jwpblog April 1, 2022

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 …

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