For many, coursework is a dirty word. Whilst I am well aware that it can be seen as both a pointless exercise in which someone assists a student to produce "their" essay and also as "free marks" for some students …
Tag: analysing poetry for an essay.
Blessing: Imtiaz Dharker A SLIME and a SCASI response
Recently I set my Year 11s this well known and much examined poem as an unseen. I was rather unsettled by the lack of structure in their responses and felt the need to take time to recap SLIME and SCASI …
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Prayer before Birth: zones and zooming
Working on MacNeice's poem with year 9, I was looking for something fun to round off and sum up the learning. Thankfully, my colleague Nora Afraoui (@3dimension1) showed me her zones of relevance PowerPoint for Year 7 a few days …
Zooming into Disabled: Wilfred Owen
A short powerpoint to help with writing analysis - the ideas are quite straightforward and are designed to start discussion rather than to act as the finished article. zooming into disabled Read More "Zooming into Disabled: Wilfred Owen"
Year 8: beginning to write an essay
new doc (3) (2) I have two Year 8 classes. Both are about to write essays as we complete the Poetry and Classics module I have blogged about in the past. This PowerPoint is to assist the students when organising …
Odysseus’ Pearls
texts: poems I am marking Year 8 annotations of the Pope translation of the Odyssey as part of the poetry and classics module about which I have blogged on here. I wanted to share this Powerpoint and screencast which should …
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