Shelley’s quintessential metaphor on a reprobate monarchy dominating 19thcentury Britain is foreboded before the first line is read. The title, Greek for ‘ruler of air’
Category: high expectations
What are some of the favourite books of highly experienced English teachers?
Looking to add to your reading collection? Of course, browsing the bookstore is a lovely and rewarding thing to do, but sometimes it’s great to
Excerpt from THE PRELUDE
The EDUQAS edition (Book 1: lines 150) of Excerpt from THE PRELUDE is remarkably similar in structure and intent to the AQA excerpt (Book 1,
MACBETH – NOT A WARNING, AN INDICTMENT!
Of the thousands of students shortly who will sit their GCSEs in English literature, as well as the multiple thousands of students from the past
CLOUD 9 – A place for high quality inspired writing
High expectations dominate my entire pedagogical approach. In most lessons I push students to think deeply about topics and make connections to the bigger picture
MACBETH – an exposition into power
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
LEARNING DESIGN by Paul G Moss 