Year 10, please find your revision mats and save the files... plenty of strong thinking, though you will need more evidence! last duchess mats y 10 Read More "His Last Duchess: more revision mats"
Category: poetry
Should we force kids to memorise poems? Part 1: Poetry is hard
Originally posted on ...to the real.: Note: This series has been a few days in the writing. It is a total, though perhaps timely coincidence that I wrote this around the same time that the new NC listed reciting poetry…
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Questioning presentation 1
Year 10 at my school should use this for their revision, but it might interest others. The quality is not perfect by any means, but there is a purpose here. In the Spring I attended the excellent TLAB13 at Berkhamsted …
Putting a Poem on Trial: At the Cenotaph and Futility
As part of their preparation for the AQA Lit B4 Critical Essay, Year 13 are about to put two poems on trial. The format will be that of a MACE debate (2 speakers per side and comment from the floor) …
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An introduction to Mid Term Break
I love Heaney and am preparing some material to support teaching and learning of his poems. My issue is: where to start? The introduction screencast is based on SCASI and ensuring that students are happy with the idea of connotation. …
Prayer Before Birth: Artwork response
These artworks were produced by my Yr 10s in response to MacNeice's poem in the Edexcel anthology, part c. They should be downloading them and anyone else should feel free to use them as stimuli for discussion. art work Pb4 …
POETRY and FROST: An introduction to Metre…
I thought I would try to introduce Year 12 to metre and other aspects of poetic form, using the Robert Frost selection from the AQA anthology for LIT B. Powerpoint: on Frost, poetics, AO2 and the Iamb... Screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFEaHkUm5rI&feature=youtu.be Enjoy! …
Robert Frost, introductions and lectures.
I am preparing the Frost anthology for AQA AS Lit B1 at the moment. Please use these youtube links to someone far better qualified that I am! Both are from the Yale Open Lectures series. I will post my material …
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