A 25 minute booster session as breakfast club on MS Teams for two of my Y11s. This considers an approach to Spender's poem for Edexcel IGCSE Elit - the unseen poem. I have left in the 10 minute silent prep …
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Model response to The Promise: Kate Hirshfield for IGCSE ELIT
This is a model response for Edexcel IGCSE Elit paper 1 - the unseen poem. Whilst it is designed for my students in Harrow, the writing is not board specific and I would suggest that all might use it to …
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Vultures: Achebe. A virtual lesson
I am experimenting in Teams and here I use MS Whiteboard to work on Achebe's poem Vultures with Y11. It is a hard time for Y11 - exams are cancelled, but they are still in school... I am so pleased …
Lecture: exploring the unseen poem
This sound file is of a lecture given for Avanti House School in NW London. What a great group of enthusiastic and bright Year 11s. It lasts about an hour.... https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/180315_001.mp3 jwp unseen poetry Read More "Lecture: exploring the unseen poem"
Year 10 discuss: Robert Frost, Stopping by woods… as an unseen poem.
I am experimenting with ExplainEverything as a medium for supporting learning. This is a link to a lesson taught today with my Year 10 class and acting as support for the 6 or 7 boys who were sitting an art …
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Edexcel IGCSE approaching an unseen poem: Stopping by woods…
A resource for unseen poems based on Robert Frost... jwp-unseen-poetry Read More "Edexcel IGCSE approaching an unseen poem: Stopping by woods…"
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Unseen poetry for IGCSE
The next revision class in the series is on approaches to unseen poetry and includes a powerpoint of ideas for approaching Heaney's Mid-term break as an unseen. The lesson focuses on the approach and the unseen is an optional writing …
