Blog Archives - Douglas Wise

COVID-19: Brief Reflections on Working at School

31st March 2020 Wise

A rota system is in place where I work to help ensure that staff time is distributed equitably across three-week

Click here to access a booklet that contains wider reading articles linked to Romeo and Juliet. Click here to access

Click here to access a booklet on Macbeth (and click here to access a Word version). The idea is for

Click here to access a range of extracts from An Inspector Calls. There are four for each of the areas

Click here to access resources for teaching narrative writing. The booklet has two main parts: ten extracts (listed below) and

See below for links to five podcasts that I’ve recently listed to and thought you might enjoy over half-term or

9th February 2020 Wise

Click here to access a booklet that contains extracts from seven essays I’ve predominantly taken from the excellent British Library

6th February 2020 Wise

Click here to access a booklet that contains wider reading articles connected to the poems in the AQA Power and

Typically, I spend the first five minutes or so at the beginning of each lesson on a recap task. They’re

Click here to access some brief notes on masculinity that I made from Carolyn Asp’s essay ‘Be Bloody, Bold and