An English Teacher's Toolbox
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National Poetry Competition 2013: The winning poem
National Poetry Competition 2013: The winning poem http://gu.com/p/3emh9
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My Favorite Artist - Doug Hyde
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“Getting so into a book that everything around you fades away.”
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Monday morning...
#Accurate
LOL. This is so going to be me. I still have a 3000 word assignment to complete...
#CreativeWriting #Exemplar #Resource #Analysis #FeatureSpot #Mine
I created this to use with year 9. I want them to identify ways of creating atmosphere. Here, I’ve used the weather.
But I also want them to ‘peer assess’ and to suggest ways to change and improve.
What a fab narrative/ creative/ descriptive #writingprompt!
Cool gif #Space
#CreativeWritingPrompt
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Creative Writing Prompt: Here is another beautiful setting which you could explore and allow pupils to create narratives/ descriptions for. I would work on word webs (vocabulary) first, and talk about creating a mood/ atmosphere.
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Another visual stimulus to help pupils create a setting for their creative writing - especially mood in this instance, too.
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Onomatopoeia
This is a fascinating photo and would be great to use as a prompt for descriptive writing, involving: pathetic fallacy, mood, atmosphere and senses.
“The first thing that happened is I uploaded it and looked at it and called my girlfriend in. I think at that point we knew it was a really cool photo. It was something I had wanted to photograph the two years I had been here, but I didn’t really think anybody else would look at it.”
–Amateur San Francisco photographer Phil McGrew talks about his photo of a lightning strike that went viral.
(Photo: Phil McGrew/Flickr)
