AQA GCSE English: Year 11 Feedback on Macbeth
Now that we’ve hit the run-up to the Easter break, I’ve introduced a weekly essay task for both of my
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Teaching Resources
Literacy ‘Do Now’ Tasks for Macbeth And An Inspector Calls
A while ago, I wrote about how I tend to start my lessons – you can access the post by
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Adding Depth by Sweating the Small Stuff
Most students can confidently recall that Lady Macbeth is an ambitious, ruthless character. They’re likely to be able to zoom-in
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Top 5 Teaching Resources for AQA Power and Conflict Poetry
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve put out my ‘top five’ resources for Macbeth and Jekyll and Hyde. Here
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Simplified Knowledge Organisers
Sometimes less is more. I’ve tried to simplify four of the knowledge organisers I regularly use. Strip them back so
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Retrieval Practice and An Inspector Calls Resources
A familiar scenario: I ask students to reread passages from a text and they duly appear to do so. Heads
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Top 5 Teaching Resources for Macbeth
Last week, I put out five of my ‘top’ Jekyll and Hyde resources – the stuff I think has aged
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Top 5 Teaching Resources for Jekyll and Hyde
Over the past few years, I’ve put out various different Jekyll and Hyde resources on Twitter – some have aged reasonably well, and
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Teaching An Inspector Calls: The Structure of a Lesson
I’m currently teaching An Inspector Calls to a mixed-ability GCSE class. So far, my lessons for the unit have tended to start
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November 2018 AQA English Language Walk-and-Talk Lecture Resources
Some unglamorous resources for a walk-and-talk style lecture on the English Language papers from November 2018 can be accessed here. Not
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