Megan Nee

English Teacher & Literacy Lead across some awesome schools in Kent.

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

@happyteacherhub @Team_English1 @FunkyPedagogy These are brill, thank you!

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

@lydiaafrost @the1975 Got 2 tickets, thank you ☺️

[Jamie @umpherj]

Prompt: Home Alone. But as the opening credits of White Lotus season two. #MadeWithRunway

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

@uksla @CILIPSLG @Team_English1 @EnglishWales These are so helpful, thank you. I've been down a rabbit hole of reading since ��

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

@uksla @CILIPSLG Good morning wonderful librarians. We are excitingly about to open a new library in our secondary school in Kent.

We'd love to hear 1) what library management system you use 2) what ideas you have to help us launch our new library!
@Team_English1 @EnglishWales

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

@uksla @CILIPSLG @Team_English1 @EnglishWales Awesome, thanks!

[Jon Hutchinson @jon_hutchinson_]

Can everyone *please* check the duty rota to see if you are the Prime Minister this afternoon and make sure that you are there if you are.

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

@english_engli1 @Team_English1 @Tes_English @LitdriveUK Great, thank you!

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

Hello English depts! Has anyone attended any really good CPD on race in literature that they would recommend? @Team_English1 @Tes_English @LitdriveUK

[Gwenders 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🧙 @Gwenelope]

Shout out to fellow teacher October babies who are also too knackered to do anything for your birthday, because: AUTUMN TERM.

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

@KhallKirsty @Team_English1 @Tes_English @LitdriveUK Thank you

[Darren Chetty @rapclassroom]

For those who did and didn't catch my keynote at Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils @cheltfestivals, I cover some of the same ground here: https://t.co/z4yMwMbYMl #RTRP
And please sign up for @BooksForKeeps!

[Megan Nee @MissMNee]

@markcratchley @BooksMbe @Team_English1 @Tes_English @LitdriveUK @rapclassroom @cheltfestivals @CheltLitFest @penguinrandom Thank you, Mark! I'll take a look. Appreciated 😊

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

New teachers: one thing we’ve been socialized to do is read text in Round Robin style. This means hearing disfluent readers read while only one reads at a time. And nobody is paying attention because once my turn is over I don’t have to listen anymore. Some alternatives:

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

🧵 'On Language & the Power of Rhetoric'

Why do some political speeches stick in the mind, or lines from poems linger in the heart?

There's a near-invisible heritage of language that we still use in speeches & writing today: it is rhetoric. Let's revel in rhetorical devices...

[Mary Myatt @MaryMyatt]

Going to starting a curriculum newsletter

Once a week

5 min read

Some interesting stuff, collated from curriculum thinkers and practitioners

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[Andy @__codexterous]

📕 POST! 📕

If you're picking up a GCSE class this coming year then maybe this will help.

How I teach *every* GCSE English Literature introduction for AQA, including modelled examples of each

https://t.co/YG989Q11Ag

[BBC Sky at Night Magazine @skyatnightmag]

New #podcast!

Astrophysicist Will Dunn @astro__will reveals how x-ray observations can uncover the secrets of the Solar System

https://t.co/fz3F0LTupX

[Jaythechou @jaythechou]

I Photoshop paddington into a movie or TV show until I forget: Day 507