Blackberry Picking is a poem rich in imagery and symbolism -from the macabre linking of the fruit to a ‘plate of eyes’ capable of staring at the young Heaney and intensifying his sense of guilt, to the link between this …
Preparing for Heaney: Death of a Naturalist. OCR A level NEA
Preparing for NEA: Death of a Naturalist, Heaney. This summer I am reading Heaney’s first anthology: Death of a Naturalist, as preparation for the OCR A level NEA close-study-task, which I will be teaching next term. As usual, it …
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#TENC2019: Engaging A Level students
My presentation from the TeamEnglish Conference is on strategies I use at the beginning of the A Level journey. There are more slides here than on the presentation seen at The Jack Hunt School. I hope it is useful. Introducing …
#LitDriveCPD: what a grand idea!
Thank you @abbiemann1982 and @saysmiss who invented the whole thing! Here is my slide deck from this evening - a personal exploration of Duffy's War Photographer and Tennyson's Light Brigade, linked by the ideas of the moral imperative to bear …
On the ELAT
This page is a one stop shop for the materials on the Cambridge and Oxford websites, relating to the ELAT: the aptitude test which all Oxbridge Literature applicants take prior to the announcement of the interview cohort. The exam has …
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."
Jerusalem: a recreative task
This is a draft from one of my former students, Tom Salter, of the opening of a putative Act 4 of Jerusalem. He wrote this for OCR A level Literature NEA. I post it unedited and unassessed for use in …
