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I’ve been thinking about this moment in **Macbeth** when we first meet Duncan and hear about Macbeth’s prowess on the battlefield. What does it suggest about Duncan and Macbeth?Some thoughts.../1

1) Literary value is not static. Discussing the value ascribed to any text is a fundamental aspect of doing English2) Shakespeare isn’t going anywhere3) Thinking about the reasons for his

Thoughts on remote teaching and some things that have been working well for me after a couple of weeks...1) Spiral2) Class Notebook3) Breakout rooms 4) Visualiser A THREAD /1 Each

Absolutely loving spiral. Definitely my top find this lockdownThe technological equivalent of mini whiteboards with all student responses showing on one screen, there are 2 settings that I have been

For anyone in #TeamEnglish looking to use automated quizzing for homework @carousel for me is the perfect choiceHaving used Microsoft forms a lot it is, for me, definitely betterOne thing

Christmas Reading: A THREAD For any English teachers looking for subject specific CPD/reading this Christmas and not specifically on teaching itself here are just a couple of my suggestions /1

I spent this yesterday leafing through Don Paterson’s excellent anthology of 101 Sonnets. Paterson writes wonderfully about poetry and his introduction was superb. It really got me thinking. So, here

I’ve been thinking recently about what we mean by **literary form**. How do we define literary form and how might we think about it? A short THREAD on what I’ve

For GCSE Literature, I explicitly teach students how to write and what to include in the **introduction** for each question. We rehearse this a lot. A short THREAD on why

So @Team_English1 I had an idea today about a different way to approach teaching GCSE *poetry anthology* and wondered if anyone had tried something similar. The idea partly came from

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