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Piano : DH Lawrence – feedback model response
This is a model response outline for a feedback class who read the poem as an unseen. How does the poet explore the speaker’s emotions in the poem Piano? In your introduction – answer the question at a basic level: …
Macbeth : model response
Beginning with this passage from Act 3.2, explore the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth through the whole play. LADY MACBETH How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,Of sorriest fancies your companions making,Using those thoughts which should indeed …
On Macbeth: Link
I may be simply absurdly late to this party, but i found this today on twitter and can't recommend it enough. https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/daggerdrawn/2022/01/12/macbeth-in-terror-which-of-you-have-done-this-3-4-43-49-daggerdrawn-slowshakespeare/ I hope you find it useful. Read More "On Macbeth: Link"
Discursive writing – for y11
My teaching slides for y11 as we begin to ramp up the prep for GCSE... (includes a slide using a short film found on #LITDRIVE - brilliant but had to search for the clip because the youtube link had stopped …
Unlocking an unseen poem: Strategies at KS4
I have prepared a slide deck to help Yr 10 students who are finding approaching an unseen poem tricky. They write well, but find it hard to get a way into the poem in the first place. Two poems are …
Dramatic Irony and Birling: Character Building
When we think of dramatic irony, we tend to think of plays like Othello and focus on the idea of a response to the plot derived from the superior knowledge which the audience has over the characters involved. However, in …
Feedback session y11
Feedback on a passage from 1.5 of Macbeth set as a typical exam question: feedback-pro-formaDownload Read More "Feedback session y11"
J&H: a Marxist stimulus
A short PPt to explore ideas related to a Marxist reading of J&H. Work in progress. jand-h-contexts-1Download Read More "J&H: a Marxist stimulus"
Othello and Iago: a comparison of speech in 1.3
A very old post which I have found on an old hardrive. I hope it is useful. Comparison of Othello and Iago Language in Act 1.3. In Othello, both Othello and Iago use different ways of talking, shown through …
Jekyll and Hyde: Contexts in pictures
A little slidedeck of images of London from 1880 to act as stimulus for discussion of AO3. jh-contexts-in-picturesDownload It is all too easy for students to imagine Jekyll's London much as today. Things to consider as they look at these: …
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