FINALLY: Macbeth course reader is DONE. Find the whole 64 page pre-annotated play here: laurawebbcpd.com/macbeth-course… A satellite context booklet and overview SOW will be added eventually, but for now Team English the play itself might be useful 🩸 ⚔️ Either as teacher guide or -

If you think the pope is pro-Palestinian, wait until you meet Jesus.

Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being’s suffering #CeasefireNOW 🇵🇸

Day 1: Palestine 🇵🇸 The Nativity of Jesus – Maher Naji #GlobalNativity23 🌍✨

🚨 CHRISTMAS BOOKS GIVEAWAY 🚨 Fancy some edu-reading for Xmas? It is advent time, so I’ve decided to give away full ‘Closing the Gap’ collections (all 3 books) to ***2*** prize winners. Simply RETWEET this post to enter. [I’ll be drawing the two winners on 8th December]

I desperately needed something explaining WHW in my classroom. Sharing in case anyone else also needs it. Team English #whw

I can’t remember who created these poetry sheets, but started ours today with my Y10s (who are self-proclaimed poetry haters) and it worked wonderfully. If it was you, please let me know so I can thank you! 🙏

Benjamin Zephaniah has always been an inspiration to me. He was from Handsworth in Birmingham, down the road from where I was born. When I was growing-up, I always looked up to him as someone who stood-up for oppressed, from refugees to the Palestinian people. Rest in peace 🤍

Simple AQA Power and Conflict poetry timeline dropbox.com/scl/fi/s6m3xg7… Designed to be used as a point of reference

We are deeply disturbed by the vile death threat sent to Apex Primary School, an independent Islamic school, and the reported bomb threat at East London Mosque the same day. There has been a 600% rise in Islamophobia, our government must act now to ensure the safety of British

If you have Muslim staff or pupils in your school please listen to this speech so that you can have a deeper understanding of what it's like to be a Muslim in this country.

Both my Y11 classes are excellent at utilising our ‘Big Ideas’ for poetry comparisons, but they need a bit of a vocabulary boost to support their explanation/development of these ideas. Hopefully this will help!

Competition time! In the spirit of goodwill, we have all three RTT books to give to one person. Simply RT to enter the competition. One name will be picked out of a hat on 1st Jan. Postage only within the UK. fionaf Stuart Pryke Amy Staniforth

Created a revision booklet for Priestley’s An Inspector Calls which revisits key scenes, characters and includes exam-style questions. Link: onedrive.live.com/edit?id=8955EB… Will print these off for my Yr11s to take home during the holidays! #TeamEnglish

In case you need something for a final lesson with Y10 or Y11 on A Christmas Carol douglaswise.co.uk/quick-review-q… 🎄👻

DON’T SPEND YOUR PRECIOUS CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS PLANNING! If any of my free resources can help, PLEASE use them. There are over 13 fully-resourced KS4 schemes of work on my website, and I have plenty more KS3 to share - just ask! missjohnston.com/free-resources

🚨 New Resource available! These home learning booklets for ACC, AIC and Macbeth include a mixture of recall tasks, vocab, essay practice and contextual information from a range of sources 🐝 Access it here: buff.ly/41xgBzE #LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish Team English

Marking English mock exams

Finally done and FREE for Team English Identity poetry booklet - the third in the series. These include background reading tasks to support the teaching of language paper 1 skills. Each poem with space and tasks: laurawebbcpd.com/identity-poetr… Shown here>>

This is the SEVENTH course reader booklet I have made freely available for English departments across the land, so far including ❄️ A Xmas Carol (+ context booklet) 🎭 Macbeth ⚔️ War Poems 🗻 Power poems 🪪 Identity poems 🐖 Animal Farm (KS3) FREE Here: laurawebbcpd.com/course-readers/