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 -
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
@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? 🙏
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
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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
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
📚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
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 🪡🧵
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
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):
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
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
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
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