Finding clarity in a post-truth world
Completing practise papers is a core element of preparation for final exams. Write them in one session, under timed conditions (90 minutes) and by hand. If you scan or photograph your paper and upload it to your blog I will be notified and give feedback.
A description about a place in a single specific moment in time. Using student writing inspired by Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood as a starting point, you will then choose your own scene and develop a description which evokes a sense of being there, of the place, its people, its sights and sounds.
Example Written Short Stories: The Zero Metre Diving Team – by Jim Shepard
Now that you are developing your own bank of quotations framed by the schema we have devised as a class, it is also time to start to explore how these quotations will be able to …
As we develop our hypothesis about what literary and linguistic features define the Magical Realism genre, we’re investigating a number of simultaneous lines of inquiry in our core text ‘The Book Thief’
A longitudinal investigation of the Magical Realism genre via a self-selected study of written texts and films.
In today’s lesson we discussed the system for classification that English Literary study uses to organise our analytical responses. We talked about how this scheme is essential for any higher-order analysis, as it allows us …
This programme will explore way English can be used to extend our perception of reality and in doing so, to open our minds to what is right in front of us.
