Whilst fully aware of the move away from prescriptive PEE type structure in essays, I still use PEARL as my most familiar process for structure. I see this as embodying a 'what, why, how' approach and find it a good …
Tag: war poetry
#LitDriveCPD: what a grand idea!
Thank you @abbiemann1982 and @saysmiss who invented the whole thing! Here is my slide deck from this evening - a personal exploration of Duffy's War Photographer and Tennyson's Light Brigade, linked by the ideas of the moral imperative to bear …
Remembrance Poem prize winner
Each year we run a competition in Year 9 to write a Remembrance Poem. The boys are reading WW1 literature -a range of poems and Journey's End as stimulus. The idea is that they write their poems without seeking help …
A WW1 playlist
I am putting together a Spotify playlist for added context when delivering WW1 material: https://open.spotify.com/user/1134431686/playlist/3uzKlzDnL2OXI4XRSXl4J3 Irritatingly there is no Oh! What a lovely war material on the site.... oh what a lovely war - recruitng leapfrog - grave whiter than the …
War Poetry with Year 9
I have put together a short anthology for teaching War Poetry with Yr 9. There are outline questions to be addressed after discussion of the poems in class. The idea is a taste of the development of War Poetry from …
Year 9 PEE to PEARL: War Lit
There is much discussion on Twitter about the best way to teach students to analyse. The mighty @FKRitson is currently collating many ideas form a range of schools and i have sent my ha'p'orth on PEARL. I know that instilling …
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