140318_001 This Spring I set my Year 11s a tricky little question for their Edexcel Certificate mock English Lit exam: A comparison of the treatment of love in His Last Duchess and La Belle Dame Sans Merci. I chose the …
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Small Steps to large improvement: Unseen paper
Unseen paper: Marginal gains… small steps to big improvements. A resource written as a give-back aid for this paper which I wrote as an Edexcel Unseen paper - Lit 2. mock lit paper 2_ unseens marginal gains unseen paper This …
Teaching UNSEEN Analysis – an idea for Edexcel Certificate (IGCSE)
I will be using this to introduce Year 11 to the art of unseen analysis. Feel free to use it. unseen lesson intro Certificate-SAM-L1-L2-English-Lit-Booklet-2011 Read More "Teaching UNSEEN Analysis – an idea for Edexcel Certificate (IGCSE)"
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Art -a minor subject or a vital part of the teaching of Poetry?
I am working on a module which introduces writing of diverse ages and styles to Year 9, partly as enrichment and partly to begin the process of unseen response. The PDFs attached are images drawn/created by some of the students …
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Introducing IED for yr 9/KS4
Some teaching materials I will be using to introduce Writing to IED to my new Year 9 class. There is an outline Powerpoint which can be adapted or made more detailed as required and the word documents referred to in …
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Year 11 Give back: EDEXCEL English Language Certificate June 2013
A screencast to discuss this paper can be found here: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s211/sh/adbd1cc2-4693-43ef-a2b9-e5497dd0aef7/4aceb926de42df0c99d6ce09b28a07cc I have tried to give a general response to the paper as well as focusing on some examples of good practice found in the papers I have marked. Read …
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