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Ibsen’s personal doll’s house
Recently I visited the excellent museum in Ibsen's appartmemnt in Oslo https://ibsenmt.no/en/henrik-ibsen-home. This is the appartment in which he lived the last 10 years or so of his life, reacquaniting himself with his wife and the city which he had …
King Lear in performance: Wyndham Theatre 26/10
This Autumn, Kenneth Brannagh has brought his first King Lear to the London stage and I imagine many teachers of A level students in range of London may be tempted to bring their students. With that in mind, I thought …
GCSE Lit: Issues of Context. Time for the Inspector to fetch his coat?
I have been thinking about this for a while following conversations with former colleagues about why the better students in their cohorts seemed to underperform in exams. I have also noticed what seems to me to be a recent development …
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Close textual engagement: Shakespeare
In this post I am considering how we might help students engage closely with text when studying Shakespeare. It is aimed, mainly at new A level Literature students, but should be equally accessible at GCSE, especially for higher sets. My …
On feuds: Twain is echoing real life
I found this article in Lapham’s Quarterly. It is required reading for anyone teaching or reading Huckleberry Finn for OCR: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rivalry-feud/loves-labors-lost Read More "On feuds: Twain is echoing real life"
TEACHING ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’
As retirement looms again, I am sorting my old folders and have come across some ACC teaching materials which may be of use. I am uncertain of their provenance - certainly I wrote some but I suspect that my wonderful …
Love in OMAM?
My immediate response to this idea is surprise. I can identify some aspects of Love in the text, but for me the most consistent idea is the absence of love in almost every moment of the text. LOVE IS... Between …
Macbeth Quotation video
With immense thanks to Matt Lynch, whose original sets of images can be found on Lit Drive https://litdrive.org.uk/resources/macbeth-dual-coded-retrieval-practice-key-quotes-mly-2 and are things of beauty, I have made a video for my students to help with retention of key quotations. Please feel …
P2Q5: transactional viewpoint for AQA
So we know it is going to be a news article... that is helpful for our students who must be fed up to the back teeth with the amount of news articles they have been shown... p2q5-revisionDownload Anyway, here is …
Exam prep : AIC for AQA
A PowerPoint slide deck which will be used in the run up to the exams to reinforce techniques used in answering questions at GCSE. Work in progress, but feel free to use. aic-exam-prep-1Download Related articles: Considering Gerald Croft… the original cad …