NEW RESOURCE: I’ve been experimenting with @Xris32 style ‘phrase banks’ over the past term to much success! Here are the AIC ones I’ve used in my class. Great discussions had over what each phrase means and how we can use them appropriately and effectively in our writing. Use/chuck: https://t.co/xPMxPC5FyI
Love listening to @SPryke2 and absolutely agree with him about thesis statements. 'The thesis statement is your roadmap' - love that. Had to do so much work on this for the IB HL essay....and needs to be nailed sooner. @TTRadioOfficial
Noticing misconceptions arising as I circulated, I put a pin in our task, grabbed the visualiser, and we collectively built a response on how to respond about a fictional construct. Really salient point needed to be addressed before we could move on successfully!✍️
💡Responding to our analytical structures being slightly too loose and not thorough enough, I created these 'Essay Structure Strips' to piece together all the elements we have developed over the last 6 weeks 💭 Pleased with their impact during our analytical response today 💪
Revision checklists for A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and An Inspector Calls https://t.co/plDUpurZf5 Designed to help guide revision, so will need a bit of elaboration ✅
Time for my annual tweet to remind fellow English teachers that I have a host of fully resourced KS4 schemes available for free on https://t.co/GkdDpThlED, and loads for KS3 available on request. If I can save anyone any precious remaining summer hol time, I would be very happy!
#TeamEnglish I am a bit obsessed with critical theory and recently wrote a book on using it to teach A Christmas Carol (Jekyll and Hyde on the way!) Here is a giant thread of critical theory resources you can use with students: