A site to share my resources for secondary English teaching.
There is much discussion on Twitter about the best way to teach students to analyse. The mighty @FKRitson is currently collating many ideas form a range of schools and i have sent my ha’p’orth on PEARL. I know that instilling too rigid a structure can create rather mechanical responses, but I like this one – it works and the students can learn to move away from it over the next 3 years, as their confidence grows.
We are looking at a War Poetry selection. This is to support their first writing.
An imposter's guide to effective schools
Your trusty Englit guide
Words, words, words... well said Hamlet! A little blog to go off on tangents within the worlds of history and literature that interest me. From the Tudors to Tom Hardy's Tess, or from the Wars of the Roses to Wuthering Heights, feel free to browse through my musings to pick up extra ideas and points for discussion!
by Geoffrey Sheehy
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my ideas and thoughts on teaching Secondary School English
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