Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Student friendly PLC for new AQA English Literature exam 8702/1. Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th -century novel

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Here's a student friendly PLC/mark-scheme aimed at Year 9 students. It's aimed at giving them a rough idea of what they're requi...

Comparing poems - getting ready for the AQA English Literature Unit 2 exam (Section A - Relationships Cluster)

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Here's a method that I've suggested to several students on how they could approach the task of comparing two poems. It's not the...

Quote Hunt update!

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The lesson went smoothly. Students, in my foundation class, loved the process of hunting for quotes and they enjoyed choosing relevant quote...
Friday, 20 May 2016

Quote hunt!

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Year 11 revision can be quite repetitive. In the spirit of making revision fun...I'm going to give my Foundation Year 11 class a chance...
Thursday, 19 May 2016

Filter your quotes - not your coffee!

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Some of my students seem to ignore the importance of dissecting a quote to reveal its connotations and language craftwork. As a result, I...
Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Parent Meet - parents meet, discuss and share!

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I want to share with you a successful Parent Meet event that I organised on the behalf of our English department. I invited a selected numb...
Sunday, 22 March 2015

AQA English Language and Literature B PLCs for questions 1 and 2

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PLCs (also known as personal learning checklists) have proven to be an essential tool in improving my KS5 students' understanding of the...