Unseen poetry.

My approach for how to write about an unseen text is called: THREE things about THREE things, and you’ll find it explained in this blog here: funkypedagogy.com/unseen-poetry-…

But there’s something else I do, too. 🧵 ⬇️

Right - here’s a massive list of GCSE English Language P2 writing tasks in case anyone is running out of ideas… (use your judgement - not all of these will be appropriate for every class)

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Revision notes on An Inspector Calls douglaswise.co.uk/blog/revision-… Focused on aspects of the play that students might dismiss or forget to explore when they write

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Another FREE booklet for Team English - 30 Unseen poetry questions (24 mark Q)
✅ 7 past questions
✅ 9 using old spec
✅ 14 other poems - lots tried and tested - all at the right level of difficulty (too hard can put them off!)
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For AQA Language Papers 1 and 2: Bookmarks for Qs 1 to 4 with reminders and prompts to support independent learning, like so 👇 Help yourself if it might be useful. #teamenglish 😊

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English teachers, does anyone have any baseline tests for KS4? They have been out of education for a while 🤞

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*Every* time I teach a novel (any novel) I use this strategy

It's the first thing we do when we start reading together

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'Pretending' in An Inspector Calls

The words 'pretend' and 'pretence' appear 12 times in An Inspector Calls.

JBP uses them to reflect the insincerity and moral failure of the Birlings' society.

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A couple of worksheets designed to help students develop their writing at sentence-level douglaswise.co.uk/sentence-work-…

1⃣ Students have a first go
2⃣ Responses are shared and discussed
3⃣ General feedback is given
4⃣ Students have a second go
5⃣ The responses are shared again

English teachers! Don't forget to recommend my Macbeth video series to you students if you're studying it this year.

I've had loads of positive feedback from students saying the summaries are helping them understand the play!

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#English #edutwitter

'The Struggle with Writing Stamina'

'A lack of writing stamina characterises an inability to write independently for a sustained period. And yet, it probably characterises a broader range of behaviours that attend writing (and learning).'

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A one-page target sheet to help students improve the quality of their analytical writing based around a Think, Do, Use model >> douglaswise.co.uk/target-tick-sh…

Never tell your daughter that when a boy is mean or rude to her it's because he has a crush on her. Don't teach her that abuse is a sign of love. Make your daughter so capable that you don't have to worry who will marry her! Instead of saving money for her wedding day, spend it…

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A Macbeth model essay on ambition.

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Diana, at 19 years old with her friend Camilla. A day at the races, watching Diana’s then fiancé Charles compete. All the time, Camilla was fucking Charles.

No friend: no lady: no queen.

#QueenCamilla #QueenConsort #queenofhearts

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THREAD: Currently teaching Creative Writing: one of my absolutely favourite things to teach!

Here are a few creative writing image prompts and tasks that may be of use to people, utilising some widely used structures.