Richard Gent | Tuesday February 17, 2015
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Drama, King Lear, Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Plays, Shakespeare - Other Activities and Resources, Starters & Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, KS5 English Starters, Improve Your Teaching
Indicative Content Question 1 pdf How do France and Cordelia present their arguments to Lear here and what do they tell us about their respective characters? New PDF Question 2 pdf How does Shakespeare develop the themes of eyesight and insight in the play? New PDF Question 3 pdf Exactly what are the accusations Kent makes of Oswald here and why does he denounce him so angrily? What does the exchange tell us about the state of status in Britain at this point in the play? New PDF Question 4 pdf…
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Richard Gent | Thursday February 12, 2015
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Plays, Shakespeare - Other Activities and Resources, Starters & Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, KS5 English Starters, Improve Your Teaching
Click on the pdfs below to access the guides Each guide is written by an expert and this expertise leads the construction of the guide. For example at Edusites we do not create a template our experts have to follow. If as a teacher you are teaching Hamlet it is unlikely that you would also be looking at our King Lear Guide so there does not have to be consistency about the structure of the guide. The only consistency we are interested in at Edusites English is the consistency of quality and…
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Richard Gent | Wednesday March 26, 2014
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English Language 2015, Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing, Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing Assessment Pack, Mocks, Mock Exams, Starters & Teaching Ideas, Improve Your Teaching
This resource takes a Language Paper One extract, and provides exemplar answers for every question, and every band, along with helpful explanations of how to interpret the mark scheme. This could be used in a number of ways Department Moderation See video links to examiner talking you through this paperAs a mock paper for your whole cohort to sit, and the exemplar responses will mean that department marking will be accurate and consistent In Class In class when going through different responses…
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| Tuesday March 25, 2014
Categories: Hot Entries, Starters & Teaching Ideas, Improve Your Teaching
Associated Resources Lesson Plan.docxOfsted Inspections: What Makes An Outstanding Lesson? For many teachers the anxiety and worry of being observed is all too real. With new government initiatives such as the fact that pay is linked to performance, and the new Ofsted Framework (2012) breathing down our necks, it could enhance these worries and fears even more. It was therefore thought that it will be helpful to provide some guidance in terms of what makes an outstanding lesson. I was fortunate…
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Richard Gent | Tuesday July 02, 2013
Categories: Hot Entries, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Improve Your Teaching
A new title in the NATE/Routledge Teaching English Series Teaching English Literature 16-19 An Essential Guide by Carol Atherton, Andrew Green and Gary Snapper A new piece of work by Andrew Green and Gary Snapper who are both part of the consultancy team here at EnglishEdu. “… a major step forward in the teaching of English Literature at 16-19 … principled, persuasive, and packed with great teaching ideas … an essential handbook for anyone teaching the subject in the sixth form…
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Beth Kemp | Monday March 11, 2013
Categories: Hot Entries, Starters & Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, KS5 English Starters, Improve Your Teaching, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, 6ET01, AQA A Level English Literature A, LTA1, AQA A Level English Literature B, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, WJEC A Level English Literature, LT1, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level, WJEC A Level
This collection of lesson starters for A Level English Literature complement the collection of ‘ice breakers’ and general English starters for broad recapping ideas, word games, creative writing starters, essay skills, general terms activities and skill builders. See A Level English Starters. General discussion prompts are useful as broad starters once in a while. Try one of these quotations to get the class thinking: “Literature adds to reality. It does not simply describe it.? C. S.…
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