NON FICTION TEXTS BIBLE It's always embarrassing to have to ask a student for a link to your own work.... anyway this is my brief bullet notes for Anthology A for those revising Edexcel IGCSE Language A. Thanks Shivam. Read …
OMAM: beginning Crooks’ journey in section 4.
My scruffy notes from the board show the beginning of work on the scene in Crooks' room. I love this scene: It is the only scene centered around Crooks and thus is vital for charting his character progression in 3 …
Thoughts on Significant Cigarettes: Rose Tremain
A follow up to this post: Significant Cigarettes: Rose Tremain Just as the Pilgrim fathers travelled across the Atlantic in the hope of establishing a New World, full of a determined Pioneer spirit and buoyed by their unshakable faith, so Lev …
Read More "Thoughts on Significant Cigarettes: Rose Tremain"
EDEXCEL IGCSE CPD: Agenda
I am hosting a small CPD day on 09/11. Here is the agenda. IGCSE teachers’ CPD Day The John Lyon School 09/11/18 Agenda: 09.00-09.30 Arrival and coffee. Meeting is based in small conference room in the Red House. Parking …
War Photographer, Duffy. An analysis
Carol Ann Duffy's War Photographer is found in the current Edexcel IGCSE Anthology and will be a possible pair for comparative analysis in English Literature Paper 1. This article is one attempt to unpick its secrets as my Year 11s …
The Bright Lights of Sarajevo – a SCASI reading
Many readers will by now be familiar with the SCASI mnemonic as an approach to writing about literature. If not, take a look here. I love Harrison's poem, placed in the Edexcel IGCSE Anthology last year for the first time. …
Night: Alice Munro, thoughts on family – not a model answer.
This is the longest and most complex of the short stories included in the Edexcel IGCSE Anthology and it requires some breaking down. In this post I am going to focus on a putative question: 'How does Munro depict her …
Read More "Night: Alice Munro, thoughts on family – not a model answer."
