Aisha

English Teacher 👩🏽‍🏫 poetry lover 🦋 (views my own)

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Old books are better because they sprung from a culture where reading, not watching, was the predominant mode of leisure. That not only meant authors were well-read and thus better writers, but that their readership was well-read too, so authors could expect more of them

[Tea with Tolkien @TeawithTolkien]

“I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world… If anguish were visible, almost the whole of this benighted planet would be enveloped in a dense dark vapour, shrouded from the amazed vision of the heavens!”

JRR Tolkien, Letter 64

[maonu @maonu10]

Clarice Lispector on perfume

[Dan @eleventhturning]

"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on the intellect entirely. They don’t read, they don’t watch anything that might challenge them, and it’s making them miserable. If you’re totally incurious, if you’re not seeking beauty and truth, you’ll find no joy in life.

[Matt Lynch @Mathew_Lynch44]

*NEW*

Here’s another practice AQA style Lang P1, using an extract from Dracula (I know it’s 19thC but it’s good!) like so 👇 Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish

https://t.co/kg10nCX1d6

[Aisha @a_ajmal99]

thinking about reducing teacher workload, especially in English markload, and considering @MarkMateUK hearing lots of positive things! #NewMarkMate ✨

[Douglas Wise @DoWise]

Gothic literature study companion for students in KS3 https://t.co/BbrEQh9amk 👻 🏰 😱

[SHINES @daikanjyo]

Rug from Lahore, 1950s

[vampira @vampl0vrrr]

"we remain just like the thyme and olives."

- gaza.

[Aisha @a_ajmal99]

@MrsJ_Gray @Team_English1 @andie_teaches has posted a SOW 🤩

[Qamar Shafiq @MrQShafiq]

I compiled a list of teaching strategies to support EAL students according to their proficiency levels for the four key skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing.

12 pages of strategies, took a while. #EAL

Here’s a link if useful to anyone else: https://t.co/4l7xwc9yi8

[Aisha @a_ajmal99]

@Mrskjp76 @Mathew_Lynch44 thank you! It really is a useful tool for reflection

[Andie 🧚🏻 @af_english123]

We're teaching The Bone Sparrow to Y7 from September so I've planned our unit and thought I'd share, just in case it helps anyone in the same situation. It is such a gorgeous read - I'm so excited to start teaching it! Use if helpful! https://t.co/R94kHDxUB7

[Matt Lynch @Mathew_Lynch44]

A little something I wrote, having trialled in my classroom: building ‘thinking ratio’ to improve the quality of ‘participation ratio’.

[GCSE MACBETH @GCSE_Macbeth]

A thread of practice P2 Q5 questions, as I think of them. Not promising they'll all be hugely original but hopefully you'll find some ideas.

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[TIME @TIME]

"Grammar has the power to become a tool of the oppressor, with the passive voice the most relied-upon weapon of all," writes Elena Dudum
https://t.co/tVX3VNVqb2

[Stuart Pryke @SPryke2]

Obligatory BOOK GIVEAWAY!

‘100 for 100: Macbeth’ is out a week today. We’re so excited to share it with you.

Repost this and we’ll pick a winner at random on Wednesday to receive a free copy! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑🗡️

@teachals @JohnCattEd @Team_English1

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

It's time to talk about teaching motifs @Team_English1 , and why I think they are the most high-leverage methods for ALL students. This comes from an examiner's perspective as well as looking at essays from my own students who have done well. A thread rather than a blog 🧵1/-

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

Another set of resources included in the session tomorrow - a set of mini motif mapping sheets - asking students to look at the motif in a short moment from the text.
I'll explain how and when to use these resouces, along with the other 70+ in the folder
https://t.co/sX1renymSZ