A site to share my resources for secondary English teaching.
Today my Upper 6th class were recovering from a late night: a trip to an Immersive Gatsby performance. We were looking at planning essays – specifically finding good links between the ideas which make up an essay.
Rather than a title, we played the game of opening the text at a random page and choosing a quotation on which to base an exploration of themes, across 2 texts.
Here are the results of 20 minutes thinking.
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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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