For the first time in around 15 years of teaching Steinbeck's text, I had a strange experience today with year 11. We are revising/revisiting the text for Edexcel IGCSE. It was read in Year 9 and now we are going …
Category: EDEXCEL IGCSE
Of Mice and Men: resources
I have taught this text for so long and seem to have overlooked posting resources to the blog... odd... I am not the author of all of these, but I have used them from time to time. I am largely …
Screencast to introduce Of Mice and Men
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Bright Lights of Sarajevo: discussion and resources
A class in which y9 (!) discuss this poem. Now part of the IGCSE materials for study, they worked so well - the video is testament to their attitude. sarajevo sheets A movie of the lesson can be found here on …
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The Necklace: Structure
Year 10, find your work here.... The Year 10s who were in on Friday will be teaching this material to their colleagues. Here is their work on the structure of the short story which was completed in today's lesson. The …
Night: Alice Munro, for Edexcel IGCSE.
Alice Munro's semi-autobiographical short story is the longest of the stories in the anthology. This PowerPoint uses material from the Edexcel text book to give a starting point for analysis. The story engages with her struggles as a teenager to …
Whistle and I’ll come for you: Susan Hill for Edexcel IGCSE.
This material relates to an extract from Susan Hill's The Woman in Black. It forms part of the Anthology Section B for Language Paper 2. Powerpoint: Whistle and I_ll come to you Text: Whistle and I'll come to you …
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