ruth

Secondary English teacher. Stevie Smith and Bob Mortimer enthusiast, with a bit of writing on the side.

[ruth @freazyteach]

@MissShakesparke We are about to embark on teaching Leave Taking at GCSE next week - would love to know how you approached it/ what you found most effective! Sorry to reply to an old tweet but I’ve been trawling X for resources/ thoughts on it and haven’t found much! 😃

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

I just genuinely can’t believe they’ve done this to Faiza.

[kim ᯽ @therealkimj]

influencers are just modern day avon ladies

[🟡 The tumboy 🟡 @TheTumboy]

Bro they’re saying you’re a bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. You gotta fight man they’re saying there’s more of gravy than of grave about you

[cherry marie @cherry_maries]

At any moment in time a 13 year old girl is going through a phase where she is really obsessed with the outsiders. i know because it happened to me. and it will happen to many more 13 year old girls for years to come... and i think that's beautiful

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Margaret Atwood once said: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

No girl should fear for her life for rejecting a man. No girl should lose her life protecting her friend.

Rest in peace Eliyanna Andam.

[Sarah Hilary @sarah_hilary]

Just learnt that Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by gazing into the mirror and announcing, 'I am Mrs de Winter now,' in the manner of Joan Fontaine.

[ruth @freazyteach]

Excellent for introducing speaking and listening !

[Classics@Cambridge @CamClassics]

Persuasion is the topic of our 4th film. Climate activist @mikaelaloach shares how she persuades people. And @Twhittermarsh whips @AlexHorne into shape as he trains to be an ancient Greek orator. Get students excited to improve their oracy skills https://t.co/Mzs1qHTtaU

[MBE Books - Class Set & Tutor Time book specialist @BooksMbe]

We’re giving away a class set of Scholastic’s annotation-friendly editions of Macbeth!

For your chance to win these 30 copies of Macbeth for your school, simply follow us and share this post by 10am BST on Tuesday 11/07/23.

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[ruth @freazyteach]

@caitlinmoran It’s a particular problem in my y10 class - I don’t feel I have the time in lesson to address the issue properly without impeding on the learning of the others. One even said ‘he’s not misogynistic he just says misogynistic things’ …!

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

This is the greatest song lyric of all time

[Simon Prosser @HamishH1931]

Thank you JEAN-LUC GODARD for the films, the memories and for so many indelible images — as seen on four favourite Hamish Hamilton book covers —

[Abby Denton @mizabitha]

Macbeth cannot be killed by any man of woman born, but a Muppet? A Muppet just may be able to best him

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING was the first book I can recall picking up to read with the intention of trying to understand grief. It was so foreign to me then; it felt like Joan Didion (also foreign to me then) was explaining that my life bordered a country I hadn’t realized existed.

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

‘Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.’

Raymond Carver

#FridayFeeling

[ruth @freazyteach]

@MissMSLord Ah ! I see what you mean - I did manage to get my y10 class to do a storyboard last week (varying degrees of success) but always worth a try 😉

[ruth @freazyteach]

@MissMSLord Maybe get them to listen to an audio retelling then try to create an accurate storyboard or something from memory?

[SLT Newbie @NewbieSlt]

Hi all,
We have six new EAL students starting at the Academy on Monday. There are two from Latvia, three from Syria, and one from Wolverhampton. Please do your best to make them feel welcome.
Thanks x