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ENGLISH TEACHING THREAD
I mainly blog about curriculum and school leadership. I ought to blog about English teaching more often: I love my subject. Anyway, here are some posts I’ve written about teaching English. >>>
ENGLISH TEACHING THREAD
I mainly blog about curriculum and school leadership. I ought to blog about English teaching more often: I love my subject. Anyway, here are some posts I’ve written about teaching English. >>>
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In 2019 I taught a live poetry lesson to my year 11s at #rEDBrum. Here is a part-transcript of one of the lessons the following week (it’s on the AQA Power and Conflict anthology, but the post is also good for routines/starts of lessons etc.) >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/a-part-transcript-of-a-power-and-conflict-poetry-lesson-with-year-11-my-last-duchess/
In 2019 I taught a live poetry lesson to my year 11s at #rEDBrum. Here is a part-transcript of one of the lessons the following week (it’s on the AQA Power and Conflict anthology, but the post is also good for routines/starts of lessons etc.) >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/a-part-transcript-of-a-power-and-conflict-poetry-lesson-with-year-11-my-last-duchess/
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An older post from 2017 on teaching Jekyll and Hyde. Still some useful things in it
>>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/the-importance-of-words-part-1-teaching/
An older post from 2017 on teaching Jekyll and Hyde. Still some useful things in it
>>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/the-importance-of-words-part-1-teaching/
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A post written for @CLiC_fiction also on Jekyll and Hyde. This time on servants and doors in the novella. >>> https://blog.bham.ac.uk/clic-dickens/2018/06/08/signposting-and-gatekeeping-the-supernatural/
A post written for @CLiC_fiction also on Jekyll and Hyde. This time on servants and doors in the novella. >>> https://blog.bham.ac.uk/clic-dickens/2018/06/08/signposting-and-gatekeeping-the-supernatural/
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A post from last year about death relics in Romantic and early Victorian poetry (and a little bit of Schubert
) >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/the-romantics-and-death-relics/
A post from last year about death relics in Romantic and early Victorian poetry (and a little bit of Schubert
) >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/the-romantics-and-death-relics/
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We all need music and stories. This is an interesting one for English teachers and music teachers. >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/storytelling-in-opera/
We all need music and stories. This is an interesting one for English teachers and music teachers. >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/storytelling-in-opera/
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This one’s on teaching the AQA Power and Conflict poetry. >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/the-power-of-the-gaze-in-aqas-power-and-conflict-poetry-part-1/
This one’s on teaching the AQA Power and Conflict poetry. >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/the-power-of-the-gaze-in-aqas-power-and-conflict-poetry-part-1/
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And this one’s just on poetry in general. Because poetry >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/the-poetry-puzzle/
And this one’s just on poetry in general. Because poetry
>>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/the-poetry-puzzle/
9. Here’s a piece I wrote for @TeachSecondary on English curricula. >>>
https://www.teachwire.net/news/all-students-have-a-right-to-a-rich-diet-of-english-language-and-literature
https://www.teachwire.net/news/all-students-have-a-right-to-a-rich-diet-of-english-language-and-literature
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This one isn’t specifically about teaching English but I do use some Yeats in a curriculum post :) >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/curriculum-a-warning-part-2/
This one isn’t specifically about teaching English but I do use some Yeats in a curriculum post :) >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/curriculum-a-warning-part-2/
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And some Shelley in another curriculum post. Because nothing beside remains, obvs. >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/curriculum-look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair/
And some Shelley in another curriculum post. Because nothing beside remains, obvs. >>> https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/curriculum-look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair/
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Planning a few blogs on the following at some point:
- Plays at KS3
- Great Expectations
- Short stories
- Krapp’s Last Tape (yes I said Beckett)
- Maybe some other stuff
Hope the above are useful :)
Planning a few blogs on the following at some point:
- Plays at KS3
- Great Expectations
- Short stories
- Krapp’s Last Tape (yes I said Beckett)
- Maybe some other stuff
Hope the above are useful :)
