Month: October 2013
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Spoken Language Study
This video contains my advice to students completing their GCSE Assessment after a Spoken Language Studythat investigated the movement of features of spoken language that have moved into text and instant messaging communication.
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Romeo and Juliet: The Boys
This is a sample of the scenes you wrote and presented based on Act I, Scene i of Shakespreare’s Romeo and Juliet. Everyone was successful at maintaining the nuances of the meaning of the original script while adapting it for a contemporary ‘South London’ location. It’s a far cry from Verona, but not so far…
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Dystopian Fiction – Writers’ Workshop
In The Crysalids, John Wyndham created a fictional world that expressed the contemporary anxiety about the nuclear threat posed by the Cold War arms race. Told from the point of view of a naive narrator, David, The Crysalids explores the post-apocalyptic landscape of strict religion, civil conflict and extraordinary genetic mutation. This task supports students…
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The Lost Thing – A deeper reading
A set of questions to support the metacognitive analysis of The Lost Thing by Shawn Tan according to the principles set by the King’s college “Let’s Think in English” programme.
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Personification in Macbeth
As part of the introduction to our Year 8 Macbeth Study, we’re looking, in acute detail, at some small excerpts from the main play. Before we start reading. Before we know the plot. We’re putting the microscope on the language of shakespeare and what this might reveal. My proposition with this presentation is that Shakespeare…
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Romeo and Juliet Act I Scene 1 – The Boys
A presentation to go with an examination of the specific dramatic elements in the first scene of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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Advanced Extended Writing – Introductions and Structure
A presentation giving some pointers towards methods of improving the quality and sophistication of extended analytical and report writing for the students and teachers at the London Nautical School
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Year 8 English – Personification in Macbeth II – Unsex me here
This presentation incorporates the close analysis of a short excerpt from Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth reveals her dark resolve for the presence of the figurative language feature, Personification. › Access the whole learning programme: waugh8.edutronic.net/macbeth-personification-2/
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Fate, Free will and Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet
This presentation explores references to fate and the use of figurative language in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet › Access the whole sequence here: wp.me/p3PtNk-cB