I teach a class here at Wheaton College on the history of Christianity, focused on the first thousand years. One thought haunts me. We are right to look with shock and disappointment at the way medieval Christians accepted violence as a norm. 1/

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 -

📚POST! 📚 One of my absolute favourite retrieval activities for the English classroom It can occupy 5 minutes or an entire lesson. Requires no prep. And it starts with a single question. codexterous.home.blog/2021/02/25/tel…

Great for discussing gender

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Great lesson to start the new year. Thanks!

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#LemovinLichfield Doug Lemov 'Science of reading' beyond phonics

A writing resource to help pupils improve their sentence variety in both fiction and non fiction writing. I have included a range of different sentences with examples. Download 👉 tinyurl.com/ysbz7x2f

For those teaching Shakespeare this semester, here’s the hub of useful performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the-s…

One page overview of sentence structures from The Writing Revolution douglaswise.co.uk/blog/writing-r… ✍️

'Recipe Writing' via a dictated-instructive-model answer: I dictate what to use... "Write a 3 word sentence, now a 5, now a 20, now use a semi colon, next use a simile, then ask a question"... Then they write the 'recipe' on the left & can reuse! MEGA PROGRESS. 🙌 #teamenglish

Trying to show year 10 what each literature skill focuses on and what an answer sounds like if you ONLY do ONE of them... Morals of the lesson: 1. which do you do most and least of? and 2. do all 3 in one paragraph! #teamenglish #litdrive

@andie_teaches I’ve shared this before, but here’s my ‘what makes great analytical writing?’ resource in case it’s helpful… tinyurl.com/yc5zp6rj

I used to often stress the importance of planning before students tackle lit questions, but rarely showed them what effective planning looks like. I now use my 3WS method under the visualiser to break down the question with students. dropbox.com/scl/fo/d8uktpu…

Opening stage directions explainer for An Inspector Calls douglaswise.co.uk/blog/opening-s… 🔍

Tweaked and re-shared my Frankenstein lessons: dropbox.com/sh/zun2utu9map… #TeamEnglish

@MissFPrice Here you go... dropbox.com/sh/kxb1pgkktt6… Kat Howard also shared one this week. Hope they help 😀