I gave a short lecture as an extension exercise for y11... https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/170224_001.mp3 maan-comedy-and-marxism Read More "Much Ado: Comedy and Marxism"
Tag: Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado: Deceit planning
One of the joys of working in such a strong department as I do is finding evidence of the work left behind. This is Miss Boyle's classroom wall this morning. I attach a PDF copy for closer scrutiny. Thank you. …
MAAN: on Comedy and Marxism
I am due to give a talk for Year 11 next term. It is a MAAN lecture and I want to move beyond the basic plot retrieval and character sketch mode... maan-comedy-and-marxism There is a screencast and I have covered …
Knowledge Organiser MAAN for KS4
After the brilliant blog post by James Theobald here, I am sharing my Knowledge organisers as I make them... I will not share his - follow the link for many, many more, and I will add mine to his collection. Here …
Setting at IGCSE: MAAN and TKAM
A screencast to look at the approach to an essay about setting at IGCSE The youtube link to the department channel: https://youtu.be/nbewUV2RwOA Read More "Setting at IGCSE: MAAN and TKAM"
Writing a character essay at KS4
This post considers a technique for writing about character at KS4 for IGCSE or GCSE. It takes a straightforward question: "How is the character of ..... represented?" and applies a 10 minute plan to produce an essay. The video screencast …
Setting in TKAM and MAAN
A short revision lesson on the two set texts for the Year 10 exams later this summer. setting in TKAM other setting links can be found here:https://jwpblog.wordpress.com/?s=setting Read More "Setting in TKAM and MAAN"
2 lessons: planning round table
Sound files of two lessons with year 11 discussing aspects of TKAM and MAAN. courage in MAAN, suffering in TKAM, Boo Radley, friendship in MAAN... A few boys missed these lessons and these are for them to catch up …
The theme of friendship in MAAN
Again, this question comes from the Edexcel IGCSE paper for January 2016. And very interesting it is too. Probably most students want to move away from friendship towards other more obvious themes such as honour and noting and try to engage from …
Who is the most courageous character in MAAN?
This question comes from the January 2016 Edexcel IGCSE paper. It is unusual because it is so open to individual interpretation and possibly comes as a result of having asked all other available combinations of questions in previous years. I …
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