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...
Cool gif #Space
Sci Fi Lessons.
My year 8 class have been studying sci fi. First the read a few scifi stories and learnt the conventions. Then in groups they created their own planets that could be featured in a sci fi story. They a series of questions to concerning social customs, buildings and transports, geographical features, animals and plants, and inhabitants. Different students in the group worked on different questions. They then put the key information onto A3 paper (example in the picture) a lot of the colouring happened in their own time.
Today they prepared 3-4 minute TV news reports including interviews with returning explorers who had visited their planets and met the inhabitants. I filmed the reports and we will be peer assessing them next week.
A lot of the work has been independent and group work and I’ve actually enjoyed teaching it, considering sci fi is my least favourite genre. (Give me gothic any day!)
Next step will be writing sci fi narratives and I’m going to put their planets on display outside the staffroom.
Love these! Here are five as a sample:
- Use the shared events of students’ lives to inspire writing.
- Establish an email dialogue between students from different schools who are reading the same book.
- Use writing to improve relations among students.
- Help student writers draw rich chunks of writing from endless sprawl.
- Work with words relevant to students’ lives to help them build vocabulary.
Love it!
Every home should have one!
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