This video is a short catch up session delivered for two boys in my U6th class as they prepare their NEA close analysis passage. https://videopress.com/v/9ljCu24B?preloadContent=metadata Read More "Heaney: Blackberry Picking"
Tag: OCR A level
EcoCrit and A level teaching #TENCOnline
I attach the video I made for #TENCOnline, the English Teachers' conference run by and for English Teachers. This year the event went online due to COVID which resulted in a staggering number of participants from over 50 countries looking …
On Sister Carrie
For my L6th group, this is the short discussion of Dreiser's Sister Carrie, led by one of the class... Read More "On Sister Carrie"
Great Gatsby: Chapter 7. Echoes
A virtual school lesson in which my Lower 6th explore chapter 7 of Gatsby and begin to consider how the chapter echoes the earlier sections of the novel, with a sense of impending destruction.... Read More "Great Gatsby: Chapter 7. Echoes"
Introducing and Explaining the SCASI method.
I am a believer in this method for approaching A level unseens. I am not a knee jerk mnemonic lover, but this one works. Here I use a very short passage from Kate Chopin, The Awakening to introduce the concept. …
Dan Cody and Pap- two sides of the same coin.
We were reading chapter 6 today in the brave new world of the virtual school: 'Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five. The transactions …
A short discussion: AO3 at A-LEVEL
This is a short discussion/lecture about the way that students can begin to consider the continuum of socio-historical context as they approach American Literature in the Lower 6th. https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/us-lit-context-disucssion.m4a I am afraid it is mainly me, but it might …
The Othering of Gatsby.
I have been thinking a great deal about Gatsby recently - specifically why I find the text so distasteful. I think one reason is the 'Othering' which is such an important part of the narrative and is found in the …
On Eco-Crit and A-Level texts 1. Initial thoughts.
For some time I have taught with an Ecocritical approach without knowing it. It took a recent TEDx talk by my colleague Maria Trafford (https://youtu.be/TFfK_yas8F8 ) to make me consider it as a concrete and explicit line to be developed in …
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Jerusalem/Saturday Night….
For my Lower 6th who are looking into comparing Sillitoe and Butterworth for NEA, my Powerpoint on Carnival has new Goose Fair elements. Jerusalem 4 And the guide.... Read More "Jerusalem/Saturday Night…."
