New Blog Post on Macbeth and Merchant of Venice feedback in the lead up to the exams: susansenglish.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/why… Team English

I’ve created a couple more Paper 1 Language Extracts today. A lot of people were interested last time so I’ve uploaded them all to my Google drive, I hope they help ☺️

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NEW BLOG: Cognitive Buckaroo with Non-fiction
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Thanks to Laura Webb
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READING RECOMMENDATIONS TERM 5 Next term's version of our reading recommendations. Follow this link and click to download. Previous versions included in link. dropbox.com/scl/fo/5exqyyx…

To the lovely people who came to my session at #rEDCam24 today - here’s what I referenced if you fancy some more edu Paris Hilton effect and prestige bias reading :)

Brief notes on the theme of responsibility in An Inspector Calls douglaswise.co.uk/blog/brief-not… 🔍

Has anyone tried using Cornell notes during a cold read of R&J with success? Considering using it to track key events, themes and motifs (scene by scene) with an able year 9 class. Will be using Chris Curtis knowledge Q's for comprehension. Douglas Wise Tom Needham Stuart Pryke

KS3 anthology of eight short stories, each with a plot twist douglaswise.co.uk/blog/ks3-twist…

1⃣ Tell-Tale Heart
2⃣ The Story of an Hour
3⃣ After Twenty Years
4⃣ Ruthless
5⃣ Charles
6⃣ Lamb to the Slaughter
7⃣ Examination Day
8⃣ He-y, Come On Ou-t!

Notes for lesson planning included 📝

Recap: everyone, it seems, is talking about oracy. The latest Commission Conversation …

Never in my life have I bought poetry, but Physical changed my life. I can't wait to read Pity. Blessed to read Andrew and blessed to know him. Top work pal.

A few thoughts, half-formed, as a contribution to a useful debate:
1. Oracy could be thought of as the best mode of formative assessment we have. It tells me what students know/have understood far more effectively than them scribbling on a whiteboard or me marking a book.

Hidden Potential by Adam Grant

A great book: I found it fascinating, accessible, and full of ideas that I could transfer to my life, from being a better leader, to learning a new language.

Here's my blog, and a 🧵with some key takeaways...
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Useful exam preparation or revision resources, exploring characters in AIC, like these 👇 Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish

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Updated and jazzed up version of AQA Language Paper 2 Walkthrough. Based on June 2018 - the 'surfer' one. Please user, adapt, share, etc. Team English Matt Lynch Douglas Wise

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GCSE English Language Paper 2 target sheet for Q5 douglaswise.co.uk/blog/gcse-engl… I’ve included a past exam task at the top of the page, but it can easily be replaced or removed 🖊️🎯

I think I have found my latest rabbit hole. It has always bothered me that Benvolio disappears, but image my surprise that he supposedly dies.

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