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Lightbulb (to scale)

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Me: If monogamy means having one wife, what does bigamy mean?

Pupil: having a big wife?

Great start to Monday😂

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It was a nature-filled day today thinking about the link between the noun and verb ‘flounder’ and the importance of not mixing up lemons and lemmings.

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Early lesson on augury, inspired by the inauspicious striking of thirteen at the opening of ‘1984’

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Trafalgar Square. Obviously.

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Illustrating the metaphor of ‘throwing something into relief’. This is Julius Caesar in relief, believe it or not

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Multi-purpose diagram for texts like Macbeth, or anything bloody really

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Segued from gothic discussion on thresholds and liminal spaces to learning about separating the wheat from the chaff and literal thresholds. Definitely not a witch.

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Zeugma: the yoking of two ideas, usually one abstract and one concrete

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What a writer should do: a play rather than an archer? (4,3,4)

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Homonym time!

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On the ball and sparky (non metaphorical)

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When you go all cross-curricular trying to explain compound adjectives

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An amphora. Not to be confused with anaphora

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This came about from a lesson on onomatopoeia. Apparently R is for Raaa, and after a segue into the Sun god Ra, my class found out about ra-ra skirts

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I set this up for all teachers who are terrible at art to share your classroom ‘creations’. Starting with this rendering of the mind/body dichotomy. Do share yours. Just for fun.