Hi Guys – I hope you enjoyed our lesson comparing the 4 different versions of the myth of Persephone. If you’d like to take another look at the slideshow, I’ve embedded it below. Remember that the main thing we came to recognise is that the Purpose and Target Audience will shape the text’s [...]
As part of our scheme of work this half of term exploring ‘Autobiography’, you are about to create a strange character using a website called ‘Build Your Wild Self’. It’s a lot of fun and your ‘creature’ will be a unique and fantastical version of you. As you can see, mine is an attractive and [...]
This is just a quick post to welcome you all back to the new school year and to introduce you to ‘Inksights’. Well done for finding your way here – this section of the website is dedicated to your class and will support the class work and homework for your English lessons.
Please make a point [...]
Well we’re nearly at the end of our year together. I have been delighted with how much progress you have all made and I have very much enjoyed teaching your class.
I am always looking for ways to improve my teaching approach and so I’ve created a dedicated survey for your group so that you can tell me [...]
This is your first opportunity to put your new Voicethread accounts to good use! The thread below contains a brief introduction page, followed by a 7 minute video documentary on ex-servicemen and homelessness.
I’ve selected this clip because it provides a very different perspective from that offered by Robert Swindells in his novel [...]
Hi guys – I am testing out a new polling system this week using an online voting program and it would be great if we got a whole class vote.
Below you will see that I’m revealing a teaser about our class novel ‘Stone Cold’. By the end of the text, one of the major characters [...]
This week, your literacy challenge is going to be to master the use of the apostrophe! You will have received a worksheet in class which you will need to complete this workshop.
The best way for you to clarify your understanding of the apostrophe is to put it to use and to have some fun along [...]
This week in class we will be learning about the correct use of apostrophes. Here is a 5 minute slideshow with audio commentary produced by Todd McCann who teaches in Michigan which is a useful revision aid. Please listen to it and make sure you are really clear about the different uses of [...]
Here is my tag cloud (a wordle) of Robert Swindell’s novel ‘Stone Cold’ – as we read through the story together, why not come back to the image from time to time and see how many more of the elements make sense.
If you were to produce your own Wordle (which you can do – here!) what choices [...]
I hope you enjoyed the work we have done with Rupert this week – we have been very lucky that he chose to share his ‘BookBelly‘ project research with our class. Now, as I mentioned in your lesson, you have been invited to produce one of three assignments which I’d like you to complete for [...]
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