I am putting together a Spotify playlist for added context when delivering WW1 material: https://open.spotify.com/user/1134431686/playlist/3uzKlzDnL2OXI4XRSXl4J3 Irritatingly there is no Oh! What a lovely war material on the site.... oh what a lovely war - recruitng leapfrog - grave whiter than the …
War Poetry with Year 9
I have put together a short anthology for teaching War Poetry with Yr 9. There are outline questions to be addressed after discussion of the poems in class. The idea is a taste of the development of War Poetry from …
American Literature: starting to research…
Following an overnight Tweet, I have found the blog of Mrs Livaudais, teaching over the Atlantic and the fourth teacher from America/Canada to get in touch in the past few weeks. The American Literature course is provoking interest. She has much …
More musical contexts for American Lit (OCR).
I recently published a post in which I listed a Spotify playlist to link to my American Literature teaching ideas. Here I link to a playlist for the American Song Book - these songs written largely between 1910 and 1940 …
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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American Literature 1880-1940: unseen extracts
A booklet of extracts to help teaching unseens for OCR A level jwp unseen extracts Read More "American Literature 1880-1940: unseen extracts"
The Great Gatsby: complete notes and timeline.
No matter how often I teach Gatsby I find it hard. Each time, the ambiguity of the central character and the lack of sympathy I have for anyone in the text get in my way. As I prepare to work …
