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Book Review: Game of Thrones 2: Kings and the Mob
George Martin’s second book is typical of the practised screenwriter: a tremendously well-plotted story with deceptively complex character development. Very many threads build towards the suitably chaotic final battle while kings and low-born alike traverse the rich...
Book Review: Brave New World. Desiring Ugly Authenticity
I remember writing Brave New World for my Key Stage 5 coursework aged 17. Guitar-playing and anti-industrialist (or at least I imagined so...), I enjoyed it as a foil to 1984, an often-expected contrast for city youth dabbling in literature. Returning to this twenty...
Book Review: John Updike’s Terrorist
I have arrived at Updike remarkably late in my reading career; Terrorist is a strange start for me. It reads well, like an essayist expanding a short story into a novel. Yet it also feels unduly terse, without the literary polish or intensity I was expecting. As a...
Six Points about Developing Metacognition from Ofsted
Very interesting to see this summary of Ofsted's Research Team into metacogntion (thanks Kristian Still). Highlights are: Metacognition is not a generic skill so applying generic learning verbs across different disciplines cannot work Metacognition is now about...
Is there a moral element to teaching literature? Some thoughts over breakfast today.
A literature curriculum offers a strong moral element that students should not be denied. That moral experience, however, must be tempered by the school context and the teacher's professionalism. This post is in response to a recent conversation about the extent to...
End of Year Survey
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15 minute screencast: Example of how to revise quotations from a text, in this case the Crucible.
Example of how to revise quotations from a text, in this case the Crucible. This video gained 1.5k YouTube views which is a good indication of the dearth of videos for this text out there.
Enhancing Cogency in Essays: Linking Paragraphs 8 minute in-class screencast
Demonstrating how to link paragraphs for great cogency in essay writing.
I can’t identify a technique! Using a Parts of Speech Identifier
Again, another game that shows your should fight fire with fire…
Apologies to all decent chess players out there. After my naive response to the Scandanavian, I fall behind. However, putting pressure with some decent counterplay leads to a few mistakes by black and an ultimate victory.