Becki Abbott

Teacher of English. Second in Department. AQA English Language and Literature Examiner. 📚❤
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[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

FINALLY: Macbeth course reader is DONE. Find the whole 64 page pre-annotated play here:
https://t.co/CGICRxpgE8
A satellite context booklet and overview SOW will be added eventually, but for now @Team_English1 the play itself might be useful 🩸 ⚔️
Either as teacher guide or -

[Andy @__codexterous]

📚 POST! 📚

A model example for creative writing

Share far and wide and discuss/deconstruct with your students

https://t.co/qjsX1jebK8

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

Created a quick black-and-white A4 summary on cold calling to support some upcoming coaching conversations. Thanks to @teacherhead and of course @Doug_Lemov for their work on this powerful strategy.

Grab a free HQ copy here: https://t.co/QKGJjjeiKT

[Andy @__codexterous]

📚POST!📚

How to write EVERY SINGLE GCSE English Lit essay introduction

In my experience, these introductions *never* fail

https://t.co/YG989PJqII

[Becki Abbott @RABTeachEnglish]

@LauraLolder @Team_English1 Thank you for this - it is amazing! ❤️ My link to the videos don't seem to work: is there any chance you can send the links to me please? 🙏

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

It's finally bloody done (!)
48 page war poetry booklet - five of the AQA poems with background reading, introductory tasks, during and post reading tasks... Just basically a SOW.
Available for free here: https://t.co/6VVI4vCkTu
@Team_English1

[Ms W-C @mrsengteacher8]

So Paper 2, comparative poetry musings fron my marking this year.

Again, students who had broader conceptual understandings of the poems and clusters as a whole were better able to make interesting links between the poems. The broadness of the Qs allowed for exploration of lots

[Miss Davies📚 @engMissDavies]

Language Paper 2: following my 🧵 there were some requests for this AO6 grid, that AQA gives examiners to use against Q5 marking. Could be made more student friendly; will get to that! https://t.co/KKJbyZQP1K

[Andy @__codexterous]

📚POST! 📚

As we ready ourselves for the new term, here's exactly how I approach teaching the GCSE Poetry Anthology.

With a completely remoddled anthology booklet included

https://t.co/MzRoWZsR4t

[Miss Davies📚 @engMissDavies]

I marked for AQA Language Paper 2 this year 🚂 Here’s some takeaways I took that I’ll be sharing with the English dept, so why not share with you all 🪡🧵

[Ms Duckworth's Classroom @duckworth_ms]

Useful tool for helping pupils to develop their academic expression. This toolkit gives many options for pupils to use when discussing fiction & non-fiction texts. All words/phrases support analysis & interpretation. Download 👉https://t.co/6kM734Owfj @Team_English1 #teamenglish

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

You need to stop manually making presentations.

This AI tool is ChatGPT for your slide decks.

Here's how to use it to save hours of work (completely free):

[Becki Abbott @RABTeachEnglish]

Introduction to Psychoanalytical Literary Theory - ppt download https://t.co/WG9NvBQwHJ

[Miss Davies📚 @engMissDavies]

Women in Shakespeare unit for KS3 (Year 9). A new addition to Year 9 that I thoroughly enjoyed making. Yes, it doesn't cover every possible amazing female character but I hope that students enjoy it, as much as my class did.
https://t.co/bTtqMGZTzc

[Sophie Mars @sophmarsbar]

Any suggestions of effective film opening to teach narrative structure? I’m thinking focus on setting/character, with holding info, shift in time/place/perspective. @Team_English1 @FunkyPedagogy #englishteachers

[Stuart Pryke @SPryke2]

Some odd bits for Lang here. I’ve really tried to ‘declutter’ my teaching when it comes to approaching the questions this year. The planning doc for P1, Q3, paired with a source and a visualiser worked well! Use/chuck as you see fit. https://t.co/SqAfe1v8tr @Team_English1

[Stuart Pryke @SPryke2]

Quotation retrieval exercises for Macbeth, ACC and AIC. Nothing major but I made these for my class and thought I’d share in case they’re useful. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! @Team_English1

[Andy @__codexterous]

An *excellent* book about teaching English

Well worth reading for any English teacher and sharing within your department

[Stuart Pryke @SPryke2]

One to use with students! @Team_English1

[Rebecca Lee @TLPMrsL]

If 2021 were a word.