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Jerusalem: a new study guide.
A few months ago I was approached by Neil,Bowen: the editor of the wonderful Peripeteia resources (The Art of Poetry, Drama and so forth). I have collaborated in producing a new study guide for Jerusalem (Butterworth) - a set …
Briefly, on Eco-crit and texts we teach… (thanks Maria)
My wonderful colleague Maria Trafford recently spoke at a TEDx event in school. Her central idea, in an evening focused on 'Earth', was that English Teachers can save the planet. Towards the end she talks of looking for ways in …
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Music in Jerusalem (2019)
As a follow on to the post on Jerusalem and the specifc music choices made by Jez Butterworth, I have made a Spotify playlist of the music itself in case you wish to use it in your teaching. Jerusalem music As …
Compare the presentation of love in the poems Do Not Go Gentle and Poem at 39.
My class wrote a timed response to this title today for IGCSE Eng Lit (Edexcel) practice. I attach mine below and also a sound file of the essay which could be used for discussion. I am not claiming it as …
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Introducing analysis in Y9: Whitman. ‘Come up from the fields, father’.
Whilst fully aware of the move away from prescriptive PEE type structure in essays, I still use PEARL as my most familiar process for structure. I see this as embodying a 'what, why, how' approach and find it a good …
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To know Curley’s wife 2019
I gave this lecture again today for a new group of y11 students. Sadly my trusty MP3 recorder has died, so I post last year's sound file again for them to use. Feel free to dig in. The lecture is …
Heaney and the Famine: At a potato Digging and For the Commander of the Eliza
Continuing my preparation for teaching Death of a Naturalist, these two poems sit at the centre of the collection and lie at the heart of any discussion of Heritage and of the meaning of Irishness explored in the poems. We …
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