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One of my first games on Chess.com: Should Take the Queen Exchange
Modelling how to respond to unseen poetry in real time: Spring in War-Time
This is an example 30 minute response to an unseen poem, not that poetry should really be read in isolation and analysed as quickly as possible.
Book Review: The Wizard of Earthsea. A child’s fable revisited.
One of my more imaginative childhood reading experiences was enjoying The Wizard of Earthsea in 4E (or whatever unimaginative name labelled that class). Stylistically denser than the Game of Thrones world, it contains a gentler message: know thyself. Despite its...
A video Demonstrating How to Use Triptico
A quick video on how to use Triptico created in a training session.
An Introduction to Fiscal Education: Five Thoughts from an International Teacher
As part of my website redesign I have created sections on fiscal education. In it I plan to write about things I wish I knew about money when I was younger. My attitudes are fixed in my cultural experiences as a British man growing up first in the Midlands and then in...
Book Review: On Chesil Beach. How reasonable should we be in love?
On Chesil Beach is another smart McEwan novel about typically British repression and how love needs action. It asks questions such as: how reasonable should we be in love? And what expectations should we have of our spouses? That we experience in the book a couple...
Example analysis of comparative poems using old KS4 conflict poem anthology: 15 minute screencast
Example analysis of comparative poems using old KS4 conflict poem anthology.
Much Ado About Nothing: A screencast demonstrating the analysis of connotation and then stagecraft in real-time.
A screencast demonstrating the analysis of connotation and then stagecraft in real-time.
Book Review: Game of Thrones. Recognisable Fantasy?
Almost all people love fantasy but only when it is recognisable. Game of Thrones fills this niche perfectly. Distinctly stylish and duly influential, this book is worth your time. Game of Thrones purposefully avoids high fantasy: in doing so it has met with some due...
