A 25 minute booster session as breakfast club on MS Teams for two of my Y11s. This considers an approach to Spender's poem for Edexcel IGCSE Elit - the unseen poem. I have left in the 10 minute silent prep …
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Essay planning for character: what is the significance of…?
A short video focused on techniques in writing an Elit essay around character. I am using Curley in OMAM here. https://videopress.com/v/hB7Ex8rA?preloadContent=metadata Read More "Essay planning for character: what is the significance of…?"
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Crooks: it’s complicated.
One of the many joys of teaching Of Mice and Men is being able to engage in discussion all around characters due to Steinbeck's masterly 360 degree characterisations. Curley's Wife is a victim of gender oppression, and yet she is …
Vultures: Achebe. A virtual lesson
I am experimenting in Teams and here I use MS Whiteboard to work on Achebe's poem Vultures with Y11. It is a hard time for Y11 - exams are cancelled, but they are still in school... I am so pleased …
Whistle and I’ll Come… 20 minute revision for Edexcel IGCSE
Here is a link to a One Note page on which I recorded a short revision session on Hill's text. If you use the replay button on 'view' while listening to the audio, it should mark up in real time. …
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Sarajevo: Harrison. Y10 work in progress.
These documents were created in this morning's lesson - Year 10, please download and add to your notes. The One Note Link is here. new doc 2019-07-04 10.36.57_20190704104106 Read More "Sarajevo: Harrison. Y10 work in progress."
Disabled: teaching notes
For Year 10: Here s today's work on Disabled for those who were on the school trip... One note page, with sound audio of lesson: https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/190624_001.mp3 Read More "Disabled: teaching notes"
OMAM: a lecture on contexts and other quite interesting things
One of my team was ill today, so with Art GCSE exams reducing the size of classes significantly I piled 2 together and gave a lecture... planning was minimal and the talk was designed to cover a wide remit - …
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Chris Froome on Africa: non fiction comparison
This passage works as a comparison to George Alagiah's Passage to Africa or Jamie Zeppa's Bhutan passage, found in the Edexcel IGCSE anthology. I have scanned the opening of Froome's book as he looks back at his youth in Africa, …
Poetic Form and how to use it: A guide for Edexcel IGCSE and all unseen poetry
Dr Ammara Ashraf, who joined my department last term has produced many little gems which glitter proudly in our shared resources area. She has allowed me to share further this PowerPoint on Form for exam students at IGCSE, GCSE and …
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