Shakespeare’s opening, assiduously constructed with chiasmus and trochaic tetrameter and pathetic fallacy, immediately coerces the audience into a position of vulnerability, disempowering them with the
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Pre-mock knowledge tests are ESSENTIAL!
Summative tests are important, but the very nature of them being based on a range from the domain of knowledge makes it difficult to be
What is the Lord of the Flies?
Learnt pathology. When Simon hallucinates with the pig’s head talking to him, berating him, Golding reveals one of the driving themes in the novel: the
Comma Splice Ain’t so Nice
Fixing Comma splices – the 7 point plan Perhaps the bane of every English teacher’s existence ever is the crime of comma splicing. The crime is
TRANSACTIONAL WRITING – a SOW developing argument
Rationale: students tend to superficially answer transactional writing questions, because they often miss opportunities to explore the audience’s perspective, as well as expand their own thoughts
CREATIVITY – why it’s gone from our SCHOOLS
This is the 2nd post on creativity. The first is here. Creativity is important! Whilst not an essential outcome for learning, (a delineating factor with
LEARNING DESIGN by Paul G Moss 