Category: How to Teach Literature
What books should students read for A-Levels/IB or Undergraduate?
Students seeking success in literature should aim to read beyond the limits of the classroom. Each of these books have proved very useful for both my students and me in teaching and reading literature at the higher levels.
Read Morecan concept-based learning help you teach and write better thesis statements?
The Teaching of Literature Should be Led by Ideas Literature is not a subject in itself. It has a...
Read MoreDo English teachers need charisma?
English teachers are usually charismatic. The act of reading and considering poetry and drama...
Read MoreContent vs Specification: Thoughts about KS5 Planning
This year I have taken on the running of our KS5 literature specification. It has been an...
Read MoreBuilding a Sixth Form Curriculum: Literature
This summer I was promoted to Head of KS5 Literature, leading a team of six people. I enjoyed the...
Read MoreBook Review: Notes from the Jungle: Provocative Teacherspeak
Notes from the Jungle is an engagingly provocative book from a working international headteacher....
Read MoreDeveloping Academic Argument Using Claims, Reasons, Evidence and Warrants: Using Turabian’s ”Manual for Writers”
Today my students sat their English Literature GCSE exam. Our in-class focus on understanding...
Read MoreFinding new authors
From word of mouth, or through online communities, will find recommendations for books far more...
Read MorePerhaps the single greatest source of cultural capital for the aspiring (i)GCSE student?
Each year I find students who want to better know the curious attractions cultural capital: from my form group (or me!) who want to sing passages from Bohemian Rhapsody, and wish to know the individual plot synopsis for each...
Read MoreRealism and the Realist Novel – A response to a Year 9 Homework
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...
Read MorePre-reading Charge of the Light Brigade
My Year 10 class are ending their term before work experience by studying an AQA literature poem....
Read MoreYear 10 Macbeth – Prior to essay
I have been proud of how my Year 10s have approached their studies this term. Many of them will be...
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