This is a teacher presentation exploring advanced strategies for embedding quotations into analytical writing – concentrating on character analysis in the novella Of Mice and Men. You can access the full lesson sequence.
Advice to students who are working on their Romeo and Juliet project on how to prepare for their essay on fate.
Our Year 7 Class have been exploring the use of figurative language in the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a teacher presentation designed to support this analysis.
A presentation to our German partners on how technology has transformed our work in English at the London Nautical School
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.
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
As part of our exploration of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus the class is engaging in some research about the Elizabethan times and the context from which the play arose. Included here is a short video where I try to give the students some cues to the lines of inquiry they might wish to pursue and also, attached below, is the research questions with the students committing to following these attached.
In preparation for our first Annual Town Meeting, here is a set of short clips taken from the life of the London Nautical School Department of English
As part of the London Nautical School internal Teachmeet, held on 15 April 2013, Mr Hyder Dastagir demonstrated how movement and roleplay can be used to demonstrate sophisticated chemistry principles. View the other presentations in the archive of this event › events.edutronic.net/outstanding/
Presented to Teachmeet BETT on 31 January, 2013, to follow is a quick drive through some moments in the life of The Edutronic – with a focus on feedback.
Teachmeets are a grass-roots phenomenon where teachers get together and share elements of good practice, ideas and theories in a fast-paced, informal format. Presenters volunteer to speak for 2 or 7 minutes.
Presented to Teachmeet London on Tuesday 11 December, 2012, to follow is a quick drive through one moment in the life of The Edutronic – with a focus on feedback.
Teachmeets are a grass-roots phenomenon where teachers get together and share elements of good practice, ideas and theories in a fast-paced, informal format. Presenters volunteer to speak for 2 or 7 minutes – and this is the framework behind Chris Waugh‘s 2 minute presentation on The Edutronic Feedback Loop.
The presentation that accompanies a lesson introducing the process of language analysis to a Year 9 English class. In this lesson the students are shown an example of metaphor – and then are given a different excerpt from the text and asked to detect and explain the metaphor they find in it.
All the lesson materials can be found here: http://waugh9.www.edutronic.net/lesson-outline-introduction-to-metaphor-in-shakespeares-romeo-and-juliet/
The data presentation to accompany my 30 minute demonstration lesson on the topic of “Imagery in Poetry”. Presented to the foundation level of the UCL Academy on 25 March 2013
Find all the resources here: http://www.edutronic.net/edutronic/UCL.html
An explanation of what the word ‘interpretation’ means and some examples of how Baz Luhrmann has interpreted Romeo and Juliet in his film version. This will support the students in their extension work, which involves exploring the contrasts between the play and the film.
The lesson sequence that this presentation fits within can be found here: http://waugh8.www.edutronic.net/category/shakespeare/
Some students captured Mr Waugh presenting a 5 minute discussion on the action of Fate in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The whole learning sequence can be found here: http://waugh9.www.edutronic.net/category/reading/shakespeare/
As part of the Grammar for Writing programme, where Year 7 students from the London Nautical School are developing their own opening to a piece of Dystopian fiction, these presentations are being developed. This, first, presentation is an introduction to the subject of Prepositions. For further information check the site edutronic.net/edutronic/lessons.html
As part of the Grammar for Writing programme, where Year 7 students from the London Nautical School are developing their own opening to a piece of Dystopian fiction, these presentations are being developed. This, second, presentation is an introduction to the subject of Noun Phrases. For further information and the associated lesson plans, check the siteedutronic.net/edutronic/lessons.html
As part of the Grammar for Writing programme, where Year 7 students from the London Nautical School are developing their own opening to a piece of Dystopian fiction, these presentations are being developed. This, third, presentation is an introduction to the subject of adverbials. For further information and the associated lesson plans, check the siteedutronic.net/edutronic/lessons.html
As part of the Grammar for Writing programme, where Year 7 students from the London Nautical School are developing their own opening to a piece of Dystopian fiction, these presentations are being developed. This, fourth, presentation is an introduction to the subject of relative clauses. For further information and the associated lesson plans, check the siteedutronic.net/edutronic/lessons.html
As part of the Grammar for Writing programme, where Year 7 students from the London Nautical School are developing their own opening to a piece of Dystopian fiction, these presentations are being developed. This, fifth, presentation is an introduction to the subject of subordinate clauses. For further information and the associated lesson plans, check the site edutronic.net/edutronic/lessons.html
As part of the Grammar for Writing programme, where Year 7 students from the London Nautical School are developing their own opening to a piece of Dystopian fiction, these presentations are being developed. This, sixth, presentation brings the 4 weeks’ learning together and sets up the outline for the students’ final piece and its subsequent annotation and evaluation. For further information, samples of the students’ work and the associated lesson plans, check the site http://chris.edutronic.net/professional-journal/learning-resources/grammar-for-writing-dystopian-openings-outline/
As part of the Grammar for Writing programme, where Year 7 students from the London Nautical School are developing their own opening to a piece of Dystopian fiction, these presentations are being developed. This, seventh, presentation brings the 4 weeks’ learning together and sets up the outline for the students’ ‘expert group’ session on annotation and evaluation. For further information, samples of the students’ work and the associated lesson plans, check the site http://chris.edutronic.net/professional-journal/learning-resources/grammar-for-writing-dystopian-openings-outline/
This presentation is part of the Grammar for Writing programme, where Year 7 students from the London Nautical School are developing their own opening to a piece of Dystopian fiction. This, eighth, presentation is what the teacher, Mr Christopher Waugh, delivered to the researchers after the completion of the project. For further information, samples of the students’ work and the associated lesson plans, check the site http://chris.edutronic.net/professional-journal/learning-resources/grammar-for-writing-dystopian-openings-outline/