An English Teacher's Toolbox
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BBC Jane Eyre (2006): A young governess falls in love with her brooding and complex master. However, his dark past may destroy their...
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These would make nice alphabet blocks.
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» pretty things: watercolor tattoo
A happy little achievement – I marked my Y11 Mock papers! Hurrah!
I have a set 3/5 Year 11 group, who are a C/D borderline group. They sat a WJEC Reading Paper and Writing Paper last week, after 9 teaching weeks on exam prep.
Teaching the unit 1 and 2…
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Well, been back at work an in the classroom for almost 4 weeks now.
This 4th week is really highlighting the stresses and demands we, as Secondary School teachers, are facing…
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Good luck to all those students who are sitting/ resitting the WJEC English Literature Unit 1 tomorrow, especially those from KC1 who will be writing about ‘Of Mice and Men’. Remember, whatever you do, make sure you talk about the context of American Dreams and Migrant Workers!
Then you’ll do fine!
One of the key GCSE English texts for the Reading coursework and GCSE Literature exam.
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What a beautiful image to use as a writing prompt.
You could ask pupils to begin by listing/finding words to describe the 5 sense and the mood/atmosphere.
Then, pupils have to imagine their story bginning here, in this scene. They write their opening… OR…pupils have to describe the scene to the reader (purely description, detatched from it).
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Harder exams in English Literature due in my first year as a fully qualified teacher. Lulzy.
