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Example of Analysing Form in Atonement: 4 minute screencast
To Whom Do the Words Belong? Examining the opening of Chapter 9 of Treasure Island through principles of free indirect discourse.
Prerogative or perjorative? Examining the opening of Chapter 9 of Treasure Island through principles of free indirect discourse.
An Introduction to Fiscal Education: Five Thoughts from an International Teacher
As part of my website redesign I have created sections on fiscal education. In it I plan to write about things I wish I knew about money when I was younger. My attitudes are fixed in my cultural experiences as a British man growing up first in the Midlands and then in...
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Reading Speed and Techniques
Reading Speed and Techniques
Applying concepts of Denotation and Connotation to the Matrix Twins Video
I recently watched the Matrix again, and wondered to which extent the video of the Albino twins reflected the tension (and nature) of how connotation/denotation act in the world outside books, and how interpretation affects reality. If the denotation/connotation,...
Examples of detective styles
For my Year 8s, they are creating a detective for a murder mystery at the end of the year. One of my colleagues has made some excellent progress with this, and suggested the following videos for exemplar detective styles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZiv8vkxMac –...
Testing your word bank – Year 7
Go to here: http://dynamo.dictionary.com/placement/level Test your vocabulary at least three times. Record your average result. Replacement is this: http://testyourvocab.com/ I only matched 34,000 words according to this. There were a dozen words I've never seen...
Graphic Organisers
On Friday I attended an Early Leaders meeting, which was rather apt as I was one of the first ones to arrive. It was in the beautiful town of Pickering where I used to work. I appreciated the chance to reflect on a few of things that I am doing now, and the chance to...
Visual Thesaurus
Sometimes encouraging pupils to produce literature coursework is difficult because the spirit isn't willing. While they see the adult-needs purpose of getting an English qualification, I have sometimes heard voiced the objection that they find discussing the...
