Couldn’t put this down.

Can’t wait to teach my Representation in the Media/Documentaries unit! Team English

📚 POST! 📚 Everything I know about teaching poetry…! A very detailed step by step guide for how I teach poetry with lots of concrete and practical strategies. codexterous.home.blog/2021/04/04/tea…

Added this to my Animal Farm dropbox for teachers or students. A guide for what to focus on: dropbox.com/sh/j3jexhq3dby… Team English Might be useful?

It’s LGBTQ+ History Month in February. A calendar for students to research more about people from our past. It’s not on the further resources list but I would also recommend the queer history chapter in ‘What is History, Now?’ Helen Carr Suzannah Lipscomb

Have spent a bit of time today creating an Independent Unseen Poetry Booklet with single poem and comparison tasks. Probably nothing new but might be useful. Team English dropbox.com/s/d7qrakamivz0…

Revision Question Booklets for: Shakespeare (Merchant/Macbeth/R&J) versions, +Animal Farm, +AQA P&C (8 poems) studied to date, + Unseen Poetry. Team English They look like this: dropbox.com/s/jhl2284s82m9… dropbox.com/s/pxq05awyfeuw… dropbox.com/s/4u656wapgyos…

A scaffold for Literature Team English to help students across all Literature responses. dropbox.com/s/smqusax2fjv2… Might be useful or adaptable

A couple of weeks worth of Non Fiction Freedom of Speech themed work for English Lang Paper 2 skills. Reading and Writing, if useful Team English dropbox.com/sh/eqw0mnguglm…

Currently reading and loving

Team English You're probably looking for the other Adam Boxer🐀 This is about using carousel for retrieval in English. Hope it is useful. susansenglish.wordpress.com/2022/07/10/why…

Every time I team poetry to KS4 or 5, my goal is to change the mind of that one student who ‘hates’ poetry; yesterday I succeeded. Particular thanks to Nichols, Duffy, Blake & Angelou #TeamEnglish

This term I’m teaching poetry, creative writing, OMAM & Macbeth: all things I get so excited about. I love my job #TeamEnglish

Garden looks terrible because it’s winter here, but just a normal afternoon in QLD with my feathered friends

Just trying to read a book on the front veranda

Spring is coming in the back garden

A thread of eight resources for teaching Macbeth: 1⃣ Context handbook 2⃣ Notes on witchcraft 3⃣ Theatrical images 4⃣ Do Now tasks 5⃣ Quick review questions 6⃣ Revision one-pagers 7⃣ Making connections sheet 8⃣ Important moment sheet

Nothing fancy, but I made a ‘Success Criteria’ summary sheet for creative writing Team English

Today’s garden visitors 🌈

Trans people are very much not a problem. I can't believe the rhetoric. Unbelievable! Predatory men (not trans people) are problems. Guaranteed that the majority of females have been exposed to some form of sexual abuse, from men.