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12 Angry Men assessment give back: Year 9
A short screencast to give back an assessment essay to Year 9. The first real KS4 literature style essay. This is designed as a starter or as a flipped home learning opportunity. link to SGS You Tube… more →
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12 Angry Men assessment give back: Year 9
wrote 4 weeks ago: A short screencast to give back an assessment essay to Year 9. The first real KS4 literature style e … more →
teaching and learning activities for The Knife of Never Letting Go.
wrote 4 weeks ago: A booklet of teaching and learning activities to be given to students reading Patrick Ness’ no … more →
MAAN revision/teaching in year 10
wrote 1 month ago: Two lessons to revise character and theme for EDEXCEL Certifcate English Literature. Feel free to br … more →
Planning for a Describe essay question - a little gem.
wrote 1 month ago: This is a suggestion for planning the typical “describe…” essay in the igcse/certi … more →
Unseen poetry for IGCSE
wrote 1 month ago: The next revision class in the series is on approaches to unseen poetry and includes a powerpoint of … more →
Michael Gove: Shorter holidays/longer days
wrote 1 month ago: A task which I adapted this morning for Year 10 studying creative writing. The idea is focused on th … more →
TRAPPERS for non fiction
wrote 2 months ago: This is a simple introduction to the TRAPPERS mnemonic I wrote for Year 9. as exams approach, Year 1 … more →
Effective Revision Strategies
wrote 2 months ago: Reblogged from huntingenglish: There is a lot of cognitive science research that proves what revisio … more →
Inform, Explain, Describe revision class
wrote 2 months ago: “Describe a peaceful place” I am preparing the Year 11 revision session for 18th April. … more →
Writing to develop tension
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wrote 2 months ago: Some of my students have been asking about tension in writing and how best to recognise the devices … more →
"I don't know how to revise English" Look here for ideas:
wrote 2 months ago: If you follow this link, I have tried to organise some thoughts to help with revision for English La … more →
OMAM revision classes 2013
wrote 3 months ago: My PPt for the Sheep group 30 minute revision class: OMAM And a podcast to accompany it: The session … more →
Year 10 revision material: Out, out-
wrote 4 months ago: Revision material made by year 10 at SGS to support the teaching of Robert Frost’s Out, out- a … more →
Year 10 revision material: Electricity comes to Cocoa Bottom
wrote 4 months ago: This material has been created by Year 10 students at SGS to assist with revision of the Edexcel Ant … more →
Year 10 revision material: Refugee Blues
wrote 4 months ago: Material prepared by Year 10 at SGS to help with revision of Refugee Blues for the Edexcel Anthology … more →
Refugee Blues and An Unknown Girl
wrote 4 months ago: Yr 10 have been working on the Edexcel Certificate anthology B poems and these 7 slides are some of … more →
Hide and Seek Give Back - Year 9
wrote 6 months ago: A screencast to give back an essay looking at Scannell’s poem Hide and Seek and the themes of … more →
Year 10 carousel notes: MAAN
wrote 6 months ago: The results of a carousel lesson designed to revise MAAN as far as 3.2 and to build resources as pre … more →
Year 9 IF- give back
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wrote 7 months ago: This give back is aimed at my Year 9 class at SGS who have just written their first essays for me in … more →
