While I have written much about marking, I have not exclaimed how wonderful an experience it can be. For example, a recent Year 9 homework required my students to evaluate the favourite story that a family member enjoyed in their youth. One particularly able student evaluated Wuthering Heights. As a …
Increasingly I am drawn to analyse data, largely because it makes my teaching more interesting to me. Summative Data on English ability, though, should be considered nonsense. Teaching a child cannot be reduced to a grade, especially if that grade is only summative data used to judge progress. Summative grades …
- Don’t need to link ideas necessarily, unless they are analysing the same point. No comparison needed, but you can if you want! - An introduction can count as a paragraph in the writing task, particularly in the short question. - Retrieval question tests for evidence that you have read …
This essay has proved to be useful to thousands of students and teachers in my school, and beyond. It provides useful reflections for the best students prior to their exams, and shows some of my hopes prior to their exam. Enjoy! With four weeks to go until the English language …
My students today began reflecting on planning to argue. Below are some exemplar plans. 111 writing to argue plans 28th feb Students were called on to consider the purpose of: Having a specific focus (allows you to explore other aspects and yet return to the thread of your argument) Maintaining …
What is evaluative analysis? This the next step for my Year 11s. We have explored how a concluding sentence, usually prefaced by a consequence connective, indicates evaluative commentary. But these are principles of evaluative commentary. 1) Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Thesis An idea is proposed, such as Juliet is impressed when …
I keep Facebook as primarily a professional networking tool. However, it is quite rare that I receive useful professional interaction via it. Indeed, I would say that 1% of my time on it is actually meaningful social interaction. Seeing as I’m the kind of person who has given up £100s …
Normally I loathe to work past 9pm, but this evening has been an exception. My Year 11s are moving into the last phase of their studies, and as a result we are focusing on evaluative analysis. It is at this stage that I teach the formulas for answering the Paper …
As it says on the tin: examples of the language homework. Paper 1 homework
From word of mouth, or through online communities, will find recommendations for books far more effectively than prescribed lists. My Feedly read this morning suggested this website that allows you, in the style of the visual thesaurus, to find new authors based on old reads. It seems effective, and worth spreading the …
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