3 ways to hit 'perceptive' with AQA LIT.👌1. Layer AO1, 2. layer AO2 or 3. think outside the box. A great visual way to show students the difference with the quote in the middle. 👏 (Note: models not the full response, just an idea of how to approach) #TeamEnglish

"What did I know, what did I know..."

Ted Kooser:

Ars Poetica You reach a certain age, & you have written all these elegies, & you think you’re done, but the dead keep coming.

‘I grew up bent over a chessboard’ - Charles Simic

When I grow up ... #TeamEnglish #EdChat

Love this John Steinbeck:

Being in bed at half eight on the Friday of a three day week feels like a new low, even by teacher standards!

this tenderness…keeps me like a garden Carla Sofia Ferreira, EcoTheo Collective 🌱

Today's Poetry Thread: FATHERS Let's help people find the perfect poem for Dad in this thread. Feel free to add poems.

The best thing about teaching is how funny and smart the kids are. My year 9s asked me which political party I support and when I said I couldn’t talk about that they said, “Miss, you’re so obviously labour. You can’t hide it from us.”

Oh no, just like the Manic Street Preachers warned us

i went on / running, shouting now into the sky

Oh no

"Listen, he said, that’s where language ends."

"desire keeps us awake."