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John Lyon English Department. Writing help. Www.esu.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/17227/Performing-Shakespeare-Participants-Handbook-2013-v3.pdf. New OFSTED Handbook. Great learning sites. The Cambridge Schools Debating Competition. Competition Structure The competition is divided into three rounds: the Local Rounds, Regional Finals and Finals Day. The Local Round will be hosted at a School in your area. Teams from around the area will converge on the host school where they will be put into rooms of 4 teams. Debates will be in the standard British Parliamentary format (click here to download our guide on this style of debating). The first motion for the local rounds will be pre-announced, although teams will not know their position. The Regional Final will draw from a wider area, and so tends to be a bit further to travel.
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Sgs_english. English Language Teaching Resources. KS3. EnglishEdu - English Teaching & Learning Resources. English_literature. Key Stage 3. EnglishEdu - English Teaching & Learning Resources. Jonathan Peel | Wednesday August 03, 2011 Categories: Hot Entries, Prose, Never Let Me Go, WJEC GCSE, WJEC GCSE English Literature This is just a little taster of Jonathan Peel’s frankly suberb guide to Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel ‘Never Let Me Go’. At over 40 pages, it should provide you with more than enough material to engage with in and out of class.
NLMG Guide.pdf We might start this document by considering the genre of the writing. Is it science-fiction? Or dystopian literature in which a parallel world is developed which focuses on negative stereotyping (the opposite of a Utopia - look them up, it’s part of learning!). I argue that it is not science fiction despite its subject matter. They often utilise a first person narrative and we have the same here; but we will need to look at Kathy H. - and carefully. This website offers a wealth of enriched content to help you help your students with GCSE & A Level English. The content of this site has been produced by teachers and examiners. SOLO taxonomy. A few weeks ago I rather rashly offered to present on SOLO taxonomy to the North Somerset Aspire network. As always with this sort of foolishness it’s made me consider my understanding of the subject in a lot more depth. Before the Summer I’d never even heard of it. But since then the whole world (or at least the very narrow teaching geek world I inhabit) has exploded with SOLO fever.
Tait Coles and Darren Mead have done their best to help me understand some of the complexities but it’s taken Lisa Jane Ashes, another English teacher, to get me over the last few humps. I now feel confident(ish) about sharing with others the work I’ve been been trying out with students. So, after cannibalising Tait’s Prezi, I began putting together a presentation which said what I thought needed saying. Here’s the resultant PPT: And here are the bits and bobs to go with the presentation : 'Grown up' statements on AfL to classify And the SOLO levels sheet to help prompt the AfL card sort: Like this: Chaos Walking Short Stories. Teaching English.
Blooms Taxonomy. SOLO taxonomy. I am pleased to say that John Biggs himself has endorsed this representation of his ideas; "I've just found your website on SOLO et al. via google. I'm delighted! Your diagrams of prestructural-extended abstract are very elegant... " (Unsolicited email, 29 May 2005) The SOLO taxonomy stands for: Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes It describes level of increasing complexity in a student's understanding of a subject, through five stages, and it is claimed to be applicable to any subject area. I confess to a slight distrust of this kind of "progressive" model, which aspires inexorably to a final state.
However, the emerging field of work on Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge links in very effectively with the SOLO taxonomy and offers some points about how the above issues might be addressed. There is a small but enthusiastic group of teachers using the SOLO taxonomy to structure their teaching in schools, and blogging about it. Solo Taxonomy. Solo_taxonomy.jpg (500×375) Hexagonal Learning. The mantra of all successful lesson observations these days is that students should be seen to be making progress. Perhaps the best way to show that you’re having an impact on their knowledge and understanding is to show that the learning is ‘deep’.
By that I mean, knowledge that transfers from students’ working memories into their long-term memories. Students understand new ideas by relating them to existing ones. If they don’t know enough about a subject they won’t have a solid base from which to make connections to prior knowledge. Psychology prof Daniel Willingham‘s advice to teachers is as follows: Provide examples and get students to compare themMake deep knowledge the spoken and unspoken emphasisAccept that shallow knowledge is better than nothing Using SOLO will help address these points: I’ve been grappling with SOLO for some time now and owe a huge debt to Lisa Jane Ashes who has managed to explain it more clearly than anyone else. Why hexagons? And here’s some of the impact: MMc Purple Prose. It's lovely,isn't it--though of course Carter makes something much darker of the base story than Disney. Why do you think that she effectively 'doubles' the story by giving us 'The Courtship of Mr Lyon' as well as 'The Tiger's Bride'?
Does she want us to simply know the base story to ring the changes on it? Or is there more to Mr Lyon than there appears to be at first sight? Remember your question: “Gothic texts often present a powerful opposition between dominance and submission” Discuss how far you have found this to be the case in any three of the texts you have studied. Try considering how the repetition of the story strengthens or changes the ideas of dominance and submission... Of course one other thing that repetition does is strenghtens or changes our preconceptions. But what if the beast is not very attractive as an animal--if he is really beastly? English revision resources for GCSE & A Level.
Comment:1 average rating | Comments (2)Last Updated:4 March, 2014Section:Resources A selection of revision resources assembled to engage students in a range of reading, writing and speaking & listening revision tasks for GCSE and A Level English & English Literature. The collection includes: General Interactive whiteboard tools & resources A selection of interactive whiteboard tools for creating interactive whiteboard games, activities and quizzes. Exam command words A poem with common exam command words – a useful and fun revision tool. Punctuation traffic lights Traffic Light / Pyramid on how to progress to higher levels using punctuation.
Connectives word bank A collection of connectives under separate headings. Discourse markers A very handy reference sheet / poster. Practising reading skills Practising close reading skills PPT. Literary terms Beautifully presented posters for your English classroom. Essay planning & writing PPT Unit 1 Persuasive techniques & devices – IWB quiz Stop the Clock. A-level English Literature B. This specification encourages students to understand how narrative works, to look at genre and to learn about critical approaches to texts.
Students discover how central narrative is to the way literary texts work and they are introduced to the different aspects of genre. Encouraging wide and independent reading, the course also considers different types of critical approach and how texts can reflect cultural meanings. A-level consultations have been launched. Find out what this means for your subject on our Changes to A-levels page. Vacancies for exam markers for A-level English - apply now. Specification The last January exams for AS and A2 were in January 2013. The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Terry Eagleton: Quotations. Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon Classic Famous Poet. Slough - Poem by John Betjeman. The Olympic Girl - Poem by John Betjeman. The Olympic Girl by John Betjeman The sort of girl I like to seeSmiles down from her great height at me.She stands in strong, athletic poseAnd wrinkles her retroussй nose.Is it distaste that makes her frown,So furious and freckled, downOn an unhealthy worm like me?
Or am I what she likes to see? I do not know, though much I care,xxxxxxxx.....would I were(Forgive me, shade of Rupert Brooke)An object fit to claim her look.Oh! Would I were her racket press'dWith hard excitement to her breastAnd swished into the sunlit airArm-high above her tousled hair,And banged against the bounding ball"Oh! View John Betjeman:Poems | Quotes | Biography | Books. John Betjeman.com. London by William Blake. To A Mouse, (The best Laid Schemes O' Mice An' Men) by Robert Burns. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns. Terry Eagleton: The original political vision: sex, art and transformation. One reason Gordon Brown gave for not holding an election was to have time to roll out his vision. It is not a meaning of the word that Britain's greatest revolutionary poet would have recognised; William Blake, born 250 years ago today, had what George Bush Sr called "the vision thing" in the way other people have headaches or fits of laughter.
At four he glimpsed God's head at the window, at eight a tree shimmering with angels. For Blake, being a visionary meant seeing beyond a version of politics centred chiefly on parliament. "House of Commons and House of Lords seem to me to be fools," he wrote. "They seem to me to be something other than human life. " Like Brown, Blake grew up in a lower-middle-class Christian milieu. Blake's politics were not just a matter of wishful thinking, as so many radical schemes are today. In this, they are faithful to the libertarian lineage of John Milton; but Milton knew rather more about politics than freedom of expression. For A' That by Robert Burns. Poems - If-- English - Forums. Books. Teaching Channel: Videos, Lesson Plans and Other Resources for Teachers. Pearltrees releases iPhone app version! | Nate Adcock. Today, the new Pearltrees iPhone app was released giving you a new and compelling way to share your life through iPhone.
You may wonder why that matters--at least 2 of us here at IPLife have reviewed the previous app (see mine here and Patricia's here), and agree that Pearltrees is an app you should download. I sat down on a skype call with self-described "Chief Evangelist" Oliver Starr to get the skinny on the new version, which if Oliver is to be believed could very well change the course of the universe (okay, he didn't say that), but it certainly sounded like the new and improved Pearltrees could certainly change the way you organize and share photos, notes and your fav internet content. Read on to find out why... If you read any of the previously mentioned reviews, you probably get the notion that Pearltrees is a way to connect your interests with others. Et Plagieringseventyr.
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Martin Creed: DIE – world premiere video | Art and design. Hazel France: Summary of The Death of the Author. CVCS, Semester 2 Week 2 : AuthorshipA summary of The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes The passage begins with a quote from Sarrasine Balzac as an example of a piece of literature in which the narrator is unknown, we do not know who is speaking. As this is possible in the written but not the spoken word, the author Barthes claims that writing is the "deconstruction of every voice, of every point of origin. " He states how in ethnographic societies a mediator or shaman will tell stories but is not directly given credit for the story as it is a retelling, a performance. The idea of the 'Author' is a relatively recent one, "the epitome and culmination of capitalist ideology which has attached the greatest importance to the 'person' of the author.
The passage goes on to state that "It is language that speaks, not the author". Barthes gives an example of how Proust played with this view of the narrative and where real life and fiction meet and which comes first. You, the Reader. Death of the Author. "The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes. Barthes's essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text, and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated. Content[edit] In his essay, Barthes argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity — their political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes — to distill meaning from the author's work.
In this type of criticism, the experiences and biases of the author serve as a definitive "explanation" of the text. For Barthes, this method of reading may be apparently tidy and convenient but is actually sloppy and flawed: "To give a text an Author" and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it "is to impose a limit on that text.
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