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Speaking and Listening ideas
The focus for our Performance Management reviews this year is literacy: one focus is speaking and listening. One technique used is the fist of five for immediate feedback: usually 5 indicates full understanding with the ability to explain to the class, while 1...
Examples for Gareth
I'm helping my pal make a website. I'm showing him in real time how long it takes to update to a website. This is a file: AQA-4705-W-SP This copying and pasting. Reading texts will be drawn from a range of nonfiction genres. Some texts will be clearly functional in...
Of Mice and Men plans CA
Part of the requirement for the new syllabus is that students should create their own plans. The 15-5-1 methods (of devising 15 ideas, reducing to 5, and then reducing to 1) is useful for this, I think. In an exam, I structure an essay best by selecting quotations...
Year 7 Homework – Extra
For those who are absent, or wish extra work, plan another speech based upon the idea of writing: Your introducing line and your concluding line. Three points you want to make. Perform your speech to someone at home with only these notes. See how many techniques you,...
One idea to make abstract links, and to avoid literary devices, in the ‘Of Mice and Men’ Controlled Assessment
For all my Year 11 students, if you access the school website, and click on home access, log into Teacher's Work Files using your generic log-in code, then (under English) there is a PowerPoint with examples of how CB has created his plan. For those who can't, click...
Writing an article – year 9
ents were required last week to write an article convincing the paper that their haunted house (as part of a themed scheme of work) was worth advertising. It was a tricky task that wasn't focussed for them. Many attempted to use creative techniques taught previously....
Pre-reading Charge of the Light Brigade
My Year 10 class are ending their term before work experience by studying an AQA literature poem. We used an AQA resource to categorise words although many of the categories were concrete (i.e. by sound, word-type, conjugation) rather than by theme. This is perhaps...
Don’t get me started!
This is a creative writing option that AQA provide that my Year 10s have been studying for several weeks. Charlier Brooker provided some entertainment for us, and I admire how my students have attempted to use as many techniques as possible. For me, variety is king....
Tips for my past self
Today my Year 11s wrote tips for their past selves in response to their performance on the presentational devices question for English language. Like I have seen a chap from Nottingham High School, I have made a table rating their comments. Outstanding comment –...
Colour Connotations
Type the connotations that you associate with a particular colour Light blue religion Sky, aspiration, safety, mellow, coolness, freedom, peace calmness, relaxation hospitality holiday sea ,rest, tranquility, year 11, hope, pure, calm, clean, nurse, victory, new life,...