Tag: Writing
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Advanced Strategies for Embedding Quotations – Of Mice and Men
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.
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Advice for an essay on fate in Romeo and Juliet
Advice to students who are working on their Romeo and Juliet project on how to prepare for their essay on fate.
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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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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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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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Romeo and Juliet: The Hand of Fate
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/
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Grammar for Writing – Part 1 – Prepositions
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
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Grammar for Writing – Part 2 – Noun Phrases
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…
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Grammar for Writing – Part 3 – Adverbials
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
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Grammar for Writing – Part 4 – Relative Clauses
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…
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Grammar for Writing – Part 5 – Subordinate Clauses
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…
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Grammar for Writing – Part 6 – The Final Piece
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…
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Dystopian Openings – Part 7 – Annotation
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…
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Dystopian Openings – Presentation – Plenary
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…