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Female or Male Writers?
I am a male English teacher. On my universe course of a 100 or so undergraduates, I was one of a dozen men. On my teacher training course, I was on of two (that made it.) And for my A-Levels, I was the only male (who took psychology, at least!) It seems the teaching...
KB
As a plug for this chap's book, and of the request of a student, here is a useful book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/English-GCSE-AQA-2010-Targeting/dp/0007342128
Free URL
For a student, this is what I used for my first website addresses. It's free! https://www.no-ip.com/login/
Work for LB and LD
Kudos to my two students who made it back into school after a long day organising a festival! My apologies for my absence. This is the work for you: Part 1 1) Go onto the school website, and find the English revision page here. http://staugs.co.uk/?page_id=779 2) Find...
Son of Rambow – recommended film
"All about film, frienship, imagination," said an old friend tonight, recommended to my students, particularly those who love film. Limited link here. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0845046/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Rambow
Presentation Tips
I love lifehacker - here are some presentation tips my Year 10 class will work on. http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/10-tips-for-more-effective-powerpoint-presentations.html
Year 8 Film Review Paragraphs
One change to the KS4 syllabus is the requirement (or, rather, possibility) to write a film review. In the last few weeks of Christmas my students watched a film, and wrote a few paragraphs trying to emulate this style of writing. For me, the key thing was for them to...
Year 8 Articles 2012
After a scheme analysing the style of newspaper articles (updated to take into account new media) my students wrote a series of articles about a shark attack in Scarborough bay. I was pleased with how many students were able to combine a variance of techniques into...
9-foreign-words-english-language-desperately-needs
http://www.cracked.com/article_19695_9-foreign-words-english-language-desperately-needs.html Fantastic article here for use as a thinking starter. I think we need a word for feeling tired when you wake up, but knowing that you've had enough sleep and will therefore be...
Genre – Year 7 Work
Search for the School of Rock trailer, and then the School of Rock recut trailer. What is different between the two? Makes notes. Choose a film of your choice, and write how you would change the genre of the trailer (e.g. through music, props, scenes, etc.)