My L6 class is working on teasing out thematic ideas for NEA task 2. Here is the braindump from the lesson this morning. Read More "Lower 6th: Notes on themes in Jerusalem"
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Jerusalem: a new study guide.
A few months ago I was approached by Neil,Bowen: the editor of the wonderful Peripeteia resources (The Art of Poetry, Drama and so forth). I have collaborated in producing a new study guide for Jerusalem (Butterworth) - a set …
Briefly, on Eco-crit and texts we teach… (thanks Maria)
My wonderful colleague Maria Trafford recently spoke at a TEDx event in school. Her central idea, in an evening focused on 'Earth', was that English Teachers can save the planet. Towards the end she talks of looking for ways in …
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Heaney and the Famine: At a potato Digging and For the Commander of the Eliza
Continuing my preparation for teaching Death of a Naturalist, these two poems sit at the centre of the collection and lie at the heart of any discussion of Heritage and of the meaning of Irishness explored in the poems. We …
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Huckleberry Finn meets Bruce Springsteen
Whither Huck? He’s alive and well in Western Stars… It must be the summer. This post looks at the links between Huckleberry Finn and the many first person narrators in Bruce Springsteen’s new album: Western Stars. It is intended seriously, …
Follower, Heaney: thoughts on metre and language
Follower -note the lack of an article suggesting the whole range of potential meanings and sub-meanings to the word. Heaney is writing literally of a boy who followed his father around the fields and farm in his youth and who …
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Death of a Naturalist: a study in innocence.
In Death of a Naturalist, the title poem of the collection, Heaney explores ideas which will be key to these poems – the conflict inherent between innocence and experience and the sense of terror which drives a young man towards …
