I love working on Chaucer in Year 7.... here is a short task to engage. I suggest following it with the Miller's description from the GP. 22 JWP chaucer material for BRDJMB Have fun.... Sadly we don't have time for …
Category: KS3
Something happened: Reading the Boss in OMAM.
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 …
Does this do it for you? Year 7 info for parents.
I am drafting a note to give year 7 parents information about the course and our internal practices, does this work? reading list y789 Welcome to English Read More "Does this do it for you? Year 7 info for parents."
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Year 7: Passport to British Literature
My colleague Bethan Davies came up with this idea and put together this anthology to use in our transition period in Autumn Year 7. The texts are rich and intellectually challenging, but should be entertaining. We will have whole group …
Year 9 discuss The Knife of Never Letting Go
My year 9 boys are working on Ness's Knife of Never Letting Go. Here they discuss the text at the mid-point of study. Please feel free to use the sound files for critique of Speaking and Listening skills... NOTE these …
Creative writing in Year 7
There is a great resource on Teachit ( I believe), written by Fran Nantongwe called "Quest for the cure". I got a copy a while ago through a colleague at a NATE conference and love using it in Year 7. …
Hunting the (JLS) Snark
Following on from an earlier post in which I looked at a draft outline for an approach to the Hunting of the Snark, here are my draft teaching materials for my class in the 7 class activity to recreate the Snark as …
Workbook extracts for Chaucer, Hardy, Du Maurier KS3
These 3 extracts are my work in progress for a new transition module being prepared by Bethan Davies and Jade Boyle, two of my colleagues at The John Lyon School. It's a lovely idea: a Passport to British Literature which …
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Shakespeare Sonnets in year 7: updated
I have just completed marking the essays produced by my current Yr 7 boys at The John Lyon School. I want to share two extracts of work which I find remarkable for their quality and attention to detail - remember …
Year 7 Monsters in Poetry: a short resource booklet
Poetic Monsters I am about to give a short module based on Monsters in Poetry to year 7. I have made a handout of the poems I want to use and attach it for download here. The poems are Tyger …
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