Mr_Gradgrind

Award-winning English Teacher. Hoping to cut down on teachers' workload with quality resources (primary & secondary) for schools:

[Mr_Gradgrind @MrGradgrind]

This bundle of 4 speeches from famous women (Michelle Obama, Theresa May, Emma Watson & Angelina Jolie) is perfect for analysing language and rhetoric: https://t.co/JEANYXAY0W #speeches #persuasive #rhetoric #education #language #power #teaching #edutwitter

[PWKidsBookshelf is now on Bluesky @PWKidsBookshelf]

Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books | @lithub https://t.co/nfh8MJ51Hv

[Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop @blackwelloxford]

Vale Martin Amis
1949-2023

Son of Oxford and Kingsley Amis. Graduate of Oxford University. Booker-shortlisted author of era-defining novels, including Money, London Fields and Time's Arrow.

[Kyle Smith @rkylesmith]

Nobody could riff like Martin Amis (from London Fields):

[PUNS @ThePunnyWorld]

What did Jay-Z call his wife before they got married?

Feyonce.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Shakespeare didn't invent his own stories and characters; he borrowed them.

Here's the source material for all 38 of his plays, in alphabetical order:

[SparkNotes @SparkNotes]

FRANKENSTEIN IS ACTUALLY THE DOCTOR, NOT THE MONSTER, EXCEPT HE'S NOT EVEN A DOCTOR AND THE FACT THAT HE REJECTS HIS CREATURE MEANS HE *IS* A MONSTER BUT THE CREATURE BEING VICTOR'S SON MEANS HE'D TAKE HIS FATHER'S NAME SO THE CREATURE IS ALSO TECHNICALLY NAMED FRANKENST—

[BookTrust @Booktrust]

At BookTrust, we are all devastated to hear about the death of Raymond Briggs.

Raymond - the author and illustrator of The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and so many other wonderful books - won our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

He will live on in his stunning, iconic books.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88 https://t.co/RuQzCssEeH

[Amy Pechacek @pechacek_amy]

It feels illegal to know about these 20 websites:

[PWKidsBookshelf is now on Bluesky @PWKidsBookshelf]

35 of the Best Children’s Books from the ’80s and ’90s | via Teaching Expertise https://t.co/L6Y4V3fv72

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

The Booker Prize guide to... dystopian fiction.

Looking for your next dystopian fiction read? Or is it a genre that you've not delved into before? Find out all you need to know👇
https://t.co/W6nb0WtDzt

[💂🏻‍♀️👋🏻вєαя🍻🇬🇧™ @BigBearF1]

I know it's a long shot but does anyone know what a trebuchet is?

[trash jones @jzux]

imagine your roommate eats the plums you were saving for breakfast and then writes a bitchy little poem talking about how good they were. and then it becomes one of the most famous poems of all time

[Mr_Gradgrind @MrGradgrind]

@FunkyPedagogy Jean Anouilh’s Antigone works well with KS3.

[British Library Learning @BL_Learning]

Looking for 19th-century essays?

Here's Charles Dickens' first writing about Christmas, advising readers to count their blessings and 'dwell not upon the past'.
https://t.co/nHocULoUui
Find a whole host of essays on #DiscoveringLiterature: https://t.co/v95Mbcexim

[Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @five_books]

Which were Shakespeare's best plays? Votes and explanations from 3 very respected Shakespeare scholars: https://t.co/1ZzkbwclMv

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Contemporary Dutch illustrator Lieke van der Vorst #WomensArt

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

now that’s a headline

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

Joan Didion, American journalist and author, dies at age 87 https://t.co/VCTnjnLj6q