Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt)

[Alice Bragg @alicebragg]

One of the students is Natalie Abu Dayyeh

A female player in the Palestine National Soccer Team

Israeli Occupation Forces arrested Natalie after raiding their students' dormitory near Birzeit University last night and detaining her along with three of her fellow students.

Natalie is an inspiring role model for young Palestinian women. She joined the Soccer Team at the age of six and grew and developed through the team's sports and educational programs until she became one of Palestine's best women soccer players.

Over the years, Natalie has strengthened her athletic, personal, and leadership skills, becoming a living example of a young Palestinian woman capable of achieving success and overcoming challenges.

She has also played an important role in encouraging girls' and women’s participation in sports and challenging stereotypes regarding the role of women in society.

Alongside her sporting career, Natalie is pursuing a degree in Journalism and Media at Birzeit University, successfully combining academic excellence with athletic achievement.

Her journey reflects the aspirations of a generation of Palestinian youth striving to build their future through education, knowledge, and community engagement.

The detention of Natalie and her fellow students from within their university residence highlights the Israeli violations against Palestinian students that affect their fundamental rights, including the right to education, personal security, and freedom of expression.

It also reflects the growing challenges confronting Palestinian youth as they seek to continue their education and participate fully in academic and community life.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse?

Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge.

This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

[Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt) @SheriHaward]

@MrsMKM81 @shadylady222 Glasses work well!

[Natalie 📚 @MissNS_Eng]

These sheets are my non-negotiable in the first lesson! I've lost count of the number of times this sheet has given me key insights into pupils and helped me support other teachers with key students. Massive help for building valuable relationships with students.

[Elaine @mrsmacteach33]

🌟Creative writing: sentence models🌟

Resources in the 🧵

I've been doing lots of sentence work. Last term, I tried to write with students every lesson, just trying to build writing muscles and expose them to lots of models
Inspired by @ChrisYoules His book is fab!
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[Elaine @mrsmacteach33]

Everything is in this drop box - I hope it's helpful.
11/11 End!
https://t.co/OgmZpcEPxY

[Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt) @SheriHaward]

@Team_English1 - Do any English teachers have some old copies of 'Purple Hibiscus' by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie? We are hoping to study this novel for a HA y9, but the cost of new books is holding us back. We can pay for postage and something towards a class set. THANK YOU!

[Andy @__codexterous]

Creative writing and the **craft of crossing out**

A THREAD about what this means and how I introduce Language Paper 1 Question 5.

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[Laura Burkhardt @LauraAnnSTL]

🧵My best friend (Black woman) & I were pregnant at the same time 18 yrs ago. We both had preeclampsia, hers undiagnosed as her symptoms were written off. I was put on bed rest & hospitalized. She was told to relax. A week after she gave birth, the day my son was born, she died.

[branwen jeffreys @branwenjeffreys]

Read this to fully understand- in her owns words what #ruthperry went through. These notes were found by her sister Julia Waters after her sister’s death. Warning this is powerful & distressing because it is so directly from Ruth Perry’s own thoughts https://t.co/2OqOisZRvQ

[Matthew Moore @matthewmoor3]

I am continuing to use @brmorris10 excellent 'Upgrade Your Analytical Sentence', and I am embedding regularly for deliberate practice now. It has really made a massive difference to developing academic writing. I've included some new examples here I'm trying.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Pair-share is one of the most powerful classroom techniques but it’s easy to get wrong. The focus should be on generative activity not superficial talk. Hollingsworth and Ybarra are excellent on how to get it right. Effective teaching is often about the accumulation of small details ⬇️

[Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt) @SheriHaward]

@joharrop1 @Team_English1 HA y9

[Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt) @SheriHaward]

What are some good alternative modern classics to 'Of Mice and Men' or 'Lord of The Flies'? I'm sick of the whole trigger-warning speech that precedes the teaching of these texts and would like a great alternative (ideally with a SOW attached!) Thank you @Team_English1 !

[Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt) @SheriHaward]

@igooner287 @Team_English1 We already read Animal Farm at another stage

[Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt) @SheriHaward]

@TheSumoGuy 2nd for sure

[Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt) @SheriHaward]

@RogersHistory Absolutely! Teachers are meant to educate students to think and question, not indoctrinate them not to

[Scheherazade Watt (Mrs Sheri Watt) @SheriHaward]

@Team_English1 - in year 9, we either read 'Of Mice and Men' or 'Lord Of The Flies,' which both contain the N- word and either feature no women or just one! What alternative modern Classics would you recommend? Do you have any good SOWs? I'd love to suggest some alternatives

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

"What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing." Arundhati Roy at her best. Must read.

https://t.co/db9DBv32Wv