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5 years

When you instantly become the least relevant account on Twitter

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Gavin Williamson phones his PA. It's 2am. "Got a big one for tomorrow, Louise." "Vaccinate students?" "Nope." "Class sizes?" "Nope." "Rejoin ERASMUS?" "LOLZ good one" "GCSE reform?" "You're ruining it." "It's 2am, Gav." "Let's just say...audentes fortu--" *line goes dead*

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Low-level disruption is the main cause of under-achievement, the main cause of teachers leaving the profession, and the main cause of sick days and staff stress. I don't have data on it, but I'd be astonished if I'm wrong.

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I'd forgotten that Snape has to take a cover lesson in Book 3. "Professor Lupin has not left any record of the topics you have covered so far." Snape, mate, we've all been there.

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Probably my best ever find in Macbeth. The Macbeths refer to the kingship as the CROWN: something easy to assume or remove, that can be taken on and off, like a costume piece. Malcolm's side refer to it as the THRONE: some permanent, fixed, to which the rightful can ascend.

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7 years

THRONE and CROWN are used metonymically in the play to mean the Monarchy. THRONE appears 4 times. Macduff and Malcolm call it the THRONE. Macbeth only uses THRONE once, when he talks to Duncan: "Our duties are to your throne" (1.4) 1/

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Why I've Stopped Teaching Of Mice And Men. I made the decision this year not to teach OMAM any more. The book still flourishes in other schools at KS3, no doubt because book cupboards are still full of copies after its heyday of GCSE dominance. Let me explain my reasons. 1/

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4 years

Absolutely awesome creative writing prompt

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3 years

I looked through all the old episodes of Radio 4's In Our Time. I collected the links to all episodes that might be useful to English teachers. I put them into one document: There's a lot! Enjoy!

In Our Time for English Teachers

Episodes of In Our Time General Concepts / Religious Concepts The Alphabet https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054950 The Invention of Literature https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xw60 The Invent...

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I had a think about what vocabulary questions might look like. I used Geoff Barton's classic list of 100 high-level words as my test case () I made questions. They're in a booklet. I'm interested to know what you think of it.

100 Word Ultimate Edition v1.0.docx

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Me: I've definitely marked at least forty assessments by now. My brain: *don't count them* *don't count them* *don't count them* *don't count them* *don't count them* Me: Fucking TWELVE?

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2 years

Mad props to my son's Year 2 teacher, who marked World Book Day by *walking the class up to Waterstones in town and letting them choose their £1 books*.

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5 years

Can't BELIEVE that the BBC adapted Christmas Carol without checking the script with GCSE English teachers first.

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So. Gerald. His whole attitude to women is deeply shitty. Gerald hates "hard-eyed" women but loves Eva for having "soft dark hair and big brown eyes". In other words, he likes young and vulnerable women he can manipulate, not experienced and canny women who see through him. 1/

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2 years

A thread of practice P2 Q5 questions, as I think of them. Not promising they'll all be hugely original but hopefully you'll find some ideas. 1/

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4 years

Using lesson time to show movies is not great but forgivable in the circumstances. Coming on Twitter to proclaim loudly how you're too pedagogically and morally PURE to ever WASTE PRECIOUS SECONDS OF LEARNING MAGIC is way worse.

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"Pretending" in An Inspector Calls The words "pretend" and "pretence" appear 12 times in An Inspector Calls. JBP uses them to reflect the insincerity and moral failure of the Birlings' society. 1/

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3 years

Wish her well but why does the Queen's official birthday photo look like the Elves have offered her passage to the Grey Havens

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4 years

The weather has turned, 20000 people catch COVID daily, teachers are chained to the front line, American democracy may end in 3 days, my dad hasn't seen his children or grandchildren in months. It's just a bit hard to concentrate on making knowledge organisers is all I'm saying.

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2 years

Results start tomorrow, so let me tell you something I learned from marking 900-odd Lit responses this year, both GCSE and A-Level. Some of your students really smashed their exams. Nailed them. Beautiful answers, interesting ideas, a pleasure to mark. Be proud.

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2 years

Happy Bruffmas* to those celebrating. *Bruffmas is the day a Year 11 rocks up to class and says "Sir/Miss, I saw this sick video on YouTube yeah, Mr Bruff, tells you everything you need to write in the English exams!" And you say, holding back tears, WTF DO YOU THINK WE'VE BEE

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Hello anyone who's up worrying. You're approaching the point where you've done all you can. You HAVE covered the course. You DID teach it properly. The Year 11s need to step up now. And they normally do. Everyone's out of practice at this. Give yourself a break.

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2 years

A teacher just shared this with me. They said I could share but without their name. Please show some love for them, the student and English.

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4 years

My key quotes PPTs for Macbeth - good for handouts, flashcards or class displays. Regular key quotes: "Stretch and challenge" quotes: Enjoy!

Macbeth Key Quotes.pptx

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Just in time for exam revision: ***MACBETH "STRETCH AND CHALLENGE" QUOTES*** Useful for enriching the work of high-target students. Suitable for a display or a handout. Please help yourself and RT widely!

Macbeth Stretch and Challenge Quotes.pptx

drive.google.com

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4 years

"Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o' the time: We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, Painted on a pole, and underwrit, 'Here may you see the tyrant.' "

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5 years

Don't meet with the other witches. If a witch invites you to meet, say no.

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2 years

Caught my 5yo saying "must of" instead of "must have". Cancelled his birthday party. Kid's got to learn.

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5 years

Don't know if this helps anyone, but here's the booklet on Speeches and Rhetoric I made recently. It's designed to be quite self-contained with video links and questions, so it might be suitable for home learning...

Rhetoric book v1.docx

drive.google.com

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1 year

We should accept that the summer in this country is now in June, not August, and adjust the school year and sporting calendar accordingly.

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6 years

**POETRY SPECIAL** An interesting idea for every line of MY LAST DUCHESS. (this might take a few days) 1/

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3 years

A note on safeguarding, for any trainees or newer teachers following me. Report everything. Flag up everything. Filling in a safeguarding form is not "a big deal". Just do it. That thing you noticed that's "probably nothing" could be the key piece in a broader picture.

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SYBIL BIRLING. I’ve been thinking about Sybil a lot in the last week or so, about her treatment of Eva, and how it resonates with current questions about our treatment of the poor in times of need. 1/

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2 years

I see you English teachers, spotting the language techniques in the King's speech.

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2 years

Not sure who needs to hear this, but... Microsoft PowerPoint is a piece of software that helps you display information on a screen. That's it. You are not wrong if you use it. You are not virtuous if you don't use it.

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3 years

You can roll your eyes at HP, Twilight, Hunger Games etc but I would *love* a massive series to catch fire among my students. Imagine working with kids who feel actual anticipation over a book release. Give me some of that "I'm Team Jacob", "Don't tell me who dies" energy. Yes.

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5 years

If you teach An Inspector Calls I really recommend the materials on the British Library website -- all available here if you scroll down.

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4 years

Some ideas about OZYMANDIAS, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818. 1) I met a Traveller from an antique land Shelley began writing Ozymandias after the British Museum acquired a statue of that figure (Ramesses II). It’s important that this poem describes a statue *in situ*... 1/

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2 years

The queen, my lord, is dead.

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4 years

If your students can follow the timeline of all 23 Marvel movies, they can follow the timeline of Jekyll and Hyde.

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3 years

I have had good value out of teaching Of Mice and Men, but I'm finished with it now. I won't be teaching it again. Thanks if you followed this far. /end

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6 years

Not updated for a while so here's a resource. I read a wonderful book called Making Every English Lesson Count and it inspired me to make this:

Pauses in Macbeth.pptx

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7 years

Lady Macbeth And "Women In Shakespeare's Time" A Thread (sorry). So, your students are writing about Lady Macbeth. They want to write about Context and about "women in Shakespeare's time". See if this sounds familiar -- it's what many students write:

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3 years

If students are out of your lesson doing a different activity, workshop etc then IT SHOULD LAST THE WHOLE PERIOD. Students arriving back from a fun activity into the last 15 minutes of your lessons is ALWAYS A BLOODY NIGHTMARE.

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4 years

I've heard some batshit fucking ideas in my 12 years as a teacher, but mass COVID testing of students by school staff is probably number 1.

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5 months

You DID teach them. I know you're worried you didn't. You DID cover the material, they HAVE practised. Honestly. I know the voice in your head is saying they didn't learn anything...but they did!

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3 years

Stopping By The Photocopier On A Sunny Evening. Whose booklets these are I think I know; His room is on the top floor though. He will not see me stopping here To cancel them with ten to go.

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4 years

I compiled ten Guardian "Experience" pieces into a booklet. ✅short, accessible articles ✅good for introducing non-fiction ✅good for "inference" Qs without getting into language analysis ✅4 or 5 "vocab" words in each piece Anyway, help yourself:

guardian experience booklet.docx

drive.google.com

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6 years

One of my favourite An Inspector Calls quotes: Sheila: "Impertinent is such a silly word." (Act 2) Now, IMPERTINENT is a key word in An Inspector Calls. It tells us about the class mentality of 1912. 1/

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7 years

HANDS in Macbeth. Hands are a recurring motif in Macbeth. But you can't just write "hands are a recurring motif in Macbeth" in your exam, because that's not an insight. So what do hands symbolise? 1/

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7 years

New Year's Resolutions: - Be bloody, bold and resolute - Laugh to scorn the power of man - Beware Macduff - Screw courage to sticking place - Wash hands

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7 months

I've marked 10+ rounds of GCSE English Lit. Here's what I've learnt, and other examiners welcome to weigh in. Most students know quotes. It isn't quotes that are the problem. The main issue is concepts. It's having something interesting to say about the texts. Arguments. Ideas.

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Exploring and exploding the end of An Inspector Calls. The play has, functionally, two endings: - the Inspector's "fire and blood and anguish" speech - the phone call reporting a suicide at the very end 1/

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6 years

Every time we make something optional because of intrinsic difficulty or "relevance", we sign it away to the most privileged schools and students while excluding the least. Music lessons, GCSE languages, Latin...let's not make that mistake with Shakespeare.

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1) If I was comparing MY LAST DUCHESS to LONDON: - both poems show how inequalities in power always seem to victimise women. It is women who suffer in the transaction of power with men who want ownership over their bodies -- whether aristocracy or street prostitutes. 1/

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6 years

Five jobs I've had: - Scottish Military - Thane of Glamis - Thane of Cawdor - King of Scotland - Invulnerable Tyrant

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3 years

I love the opening sentence of A Christmas Carol: "Marley was dead: to begin with." Let's dig into it... 1/

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MACBETH: This is a sorry sight. (Looking on his hands) LADY MACBETH: A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight. MACBETH: There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried 'Stay alert!'

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4 years

If using an acronym like DAFOREST helps your students get a few more marks in their Q5s, go for it. It doesn't mean your philosophy of education is weak. It means you're helping stressed 16yos get through 45 minutes of ridiculously high-stakes writing where every mark counts.

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2 years

Starmer just called Johnson's cabinet "The Charge of the Lightweight Brigade". That is gonna DESTROY your year 10s tomorrow.

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5 years

Your reminder that English has to teach 2 GCSEs in the same time Maths gets to teach 1.

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3 years

Shouldn't really be sharing this but I've got the pre-release info for AQA GCSE Lang papers

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4 years

When I was at school, in KS3 we studied texts written for young people. When I started teaching in 2008 it was mostly the same. Now KS3 is often filled with texts written for adults, and schemes of wk look like university modules. I'm not TOTALLY convinced it's the best idea.

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5 years

What's a small, inexpensive tip or "hack" that has improved your teaching life this year? Mine: a pack of Berol handwriting pens which I hand out to penless students. They are easy to identify as mine, easy to count in and out, and they have zero disassemblable parts. Perfect.

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5 years

Anyone else surprised to remember this is only day 3 of the school closure?

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3 years

Let's do something quick and easy. What is a word -- one word -- that you think a GCSE student could usefully add to their vocabulary, either for creative writing or analysis? One per tweet please. I'll collect them into something you can see or download.

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3 years

Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd arse, Which smoked with bloody execution

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4 years

🎵 No, I don't want no Crofts A Croft keeps a girl in his best friend's loft for free, Hangin' round the theatre bar Where the prostitutes are, Tryin' to holler at me 🎵

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In the last decade I have: - met my first three witches - become Thane of Glamis - become Thane of Cawdor - murdered King Duncan - had dinner with a ghost - slaughtered my best friend - lost four stone - got my first Head of Department role Bring on the 1040s!

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11 months

By DM:

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1 year

Good luck tomorrow everyone. That little voice in your head telling you that you didn't teach them anything? Tell that voice to BACK OFF AND SIT DOWN. You did teach them. It's in their brains. Let's just hope for some good questions to help it get out onto the paper.

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Teaching A Christmas Carol next year? I made a resource to leverage 50 of its Tier 2 words into students' own vocabulary. ✅Definitions ✅Close reading-style questions ✅Quiz questions ✅Multiple examples of different ways to use them ✅Tasks and answers! If you want one...

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4 years

History according to Key Stage 3 students: - Today - Yesterday - When I was in Primary - Victorian Times - Dinosaurs

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4 years

Not taught Year 9 for a few years. Are they always like this?

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5 years

English idioms to test your class on: At hand In hand On hand To hand By hand Out of hand Underhand Forehand Backhand Hand out Hand in Hand off Hand over Hand down What do they all mean?

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One of the most important things to make clear to students is that Shakespeare exploits fears / anxieties / suspicions that the audience ALREADY HAS. So much better than "shocking to the audience because..."

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Kingship in Macbeth. (with love to @NooPuddles for the inspiration!) There are 3 kings in the present of the play Macbeth, and others implied who will reign in the future. 1/

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Thinking about SLEEP and SLEEPLESSNESS in Macbeth. Sleep is mentioned 34 times in the play. Sleep represents what we today might call "mental health": rationality, clear thought, natural order. "Balm of hurt minds...Chief nourisher in life's feast", indeed (Act 2 Sc 2) 1/

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4 years

Writing with, and without, a strong character viewpoint, or what I call VOICE:

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8 months

Happy World Book Day everyone, especially to English teachers who *promote reading and literacy literally every day for their whole job* and today have to do stupid shit to prove their commitment while the kids (and staff?) come in dressed as Marvel characters.

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3 years

Eva Smith's body. Eva's body is a construct. It may or may not exist: the Eva/Daisy that encounters each character could be identical, or not. We might say it's ironic that although Eva is the subject of mistreatment by the Birlings, the Inspector also appropriates her. 1/

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2 years

Shall we tell her about year 11s 😬

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4 years

I spent an hour trawling the Internet today for any and all collections of non-fiction extracts. I haven't had time to sift through yet but if you want a bit grab-bag of non-fiction pieces:

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I can almost hear them, half a million pens at work right now, all those paragraphs on An Inspector Calls. School halls across the country abuzz with infinite repetitions of a single word: Edna.

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6 years

Examsplaining - when a student wastes time and ink telling the marker something blindingly obvious and/or worth zero marks: "Shakespeare cleverly uses a range of intriguing language techniques..." "In Victorian times the poor had a hard life compared to the rich..."

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No idea how long this might take, and the formatting is a work in progress, but I will be sharing annotated pages of Jekyll and Hyde, with observations, ideas and musings. Hope they're useful. #GCSE_Jekyll

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5 years

Is there a better sound in teaching than a class going "Nooo" at the end of a lesson because they wanted to keep reading?

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Whilst it may be bonkers that the nation's most visible Headteacher is using her platform to *checks notes* berate Marks and Spencer for an insufficiently Christmassy Christmas advert, her letter is a solid Band 4 on the Language Paper 2 mark scheme. So 💪

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A system that safeguards the grades of "top" schools, while subjecting hard-working students lower down the pecking order to moderation-by-computer. Never let anyone tell you education "isn't political".

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With regards to @Mathew_Lynch44 , a 20 minute essay on Masculinity in Macbeth.

Masculinity in Macbeth.docx

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"Here for my test." "Sorry, no driving tests in 2020." "But my instructor said I'm ready to pass!" *taps keyboard*..."Nope. You'd probably have failed." "But I drove my dad to Tesco at the weekend." "Like a practice driving test?" "Yeah." "That counts! Congratulations."

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Act 1 Sc 7 l.48 Why Lady Macbeth's "I Have Given Suck" Speech Might Be The Most Important Moment In The Play (thread) 1/

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Get rid of the current, unfit GCSE exams. No more analysing 4 texts to death and calling that "Literature". Empower schools to develop curious, resilient readers who read widely through to 16.

Children reading fewer, less challenging books, UK and Ireland study finds

Survey of more than 1.2 million pupils finds a decrease in volume of books read, with a ‘sharp drop’ in difficulty for older secondary students

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Anyone else excited to see how quickly their washing dries tomorrow? Like I might do all our towels and duvets in one wash, then leave the whole lot in one crumpled heap on the patio, and come back 15 minutes later and find them bone dry.

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Get a parent, friend, or random person next to you in Starbucks to test you on these before bed.

Macbeth Key Quotes.pptx

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Writing model answers for GCSE students: some thoughts. We all know that modelling exam technique and essay writing is an extremely powerful teaching method, but there's a particular current of poor practice that I seem to see quite often. 1/

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Times in An Inspector Calls when women are bought or traded by men: 1. Mr Birling using Sheila's marriage to buy his way into the Crofts' good books ("just the kind of son-in-law I've always wanted"). 1/

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LONDON by William Blake. What gives this poem its power is its ambiguity. It has a hallucinatory, nightmarish quality, created through a blurring of physical, psychological and sensory phenomena. Examples of what I mean: 1/

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I know several Year 11s follow me, and I just wanted to say: I'm gutted for you. Believe me when I say, every teacher on Twitter is also full of questions and anxiety and uncertainty. Things will get clearer, eventually, in time.

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3 years

DENZEL WASHINGTON MACBETH DROPS TOMORROW ON APPLE TV

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Feel like English teachers are already ruining that Amanda Gorman poem by threatening to teach lessons on it tomorrow. Can't we just leave well enough alone?

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