A one-pager on five of the major GCSE English Literature texts. Each one is designed to be used by students as a reminder or to be talked through as part of a last-minute revision session douglaswise.co.uk/blog/english-l… 📖
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6 x SPaG worksheets with answers included. All on a single Word document douglaswise.co.uk/blog/6-x-spag-… 🖊️
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Core knowledge booklet for the unseen poetry tasks on GCSE English Literature Paper 2 (AQA). It’s designed to help students navigate through the various requirements douglaswise.co.uk/blog/core-know… There’s a link at the end to a one page overview (a bit like the ones I posted earlier) 📝
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A one-pager on each of the English Language exams (AQA) to be used by students as a reminder or to be talked through as part of a last-minute revision session douglaswise.co.uk/blog/english-l… 📝
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A simple slide deck to help support the introduction of the AQA Power and Conflict poems: just initial tasks and brief overviews, which should then into discussion and annotation with only a visualiser necessary douglaswise.co.uk/blog/power-and… ⚔️
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Booklets to help students navigate through the various requirements of each GCSE English Language exam paper douglaswise.co.uk/blog/core-know… 📝
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Douglas Wise retweeted
I’ve been working on these 7-9 revision booklets over half term. You can download them all here: dropbox.com/scl/fo/v99qg5q… Use/chuck as you see fit!
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The weightlifting analogy @daisychristo uses to illustrate why effort is essential to learning is beautifully put and well worth sharing with students. Full podcast here amolrajanconnection.com/podcast/episod…
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Douglas Wise retweeted
Actors use scripts, musicians use scores, surgeons follow protocols. So what? It’s a rubbish analogy because teaching isn’t a performance or a procedure. Great teaching is responsive. It requires expertise, adaptation and professional judgement.
Actors use scripts. Musicians use sheet music. Surgeons follow established procedures.
Why are scripts for teachers treated as an affront to professionalism?
@ehanford explains why Direct Instruction uses them.
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I did some Q5 work this morning. Students had around 20 minutes to craft the opening of a past exam task. Whilst they wrote, I read every piece and highlighted a single sentence to share and discuss in tomorrow’s lesson. So no slide deck needed. Just a visualiser and a pen ✍️
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DNA by Dennis Kelly:
* Revision playlist with videos by @bbceducation @MrBruffEnglish & my own revision rap.
*The Knowledge inspired by @DoWise
Resources in the reply:
* Revision playlist with videos by @bbceducation @MrBruffEnglish & my own revision rap.
*The Knowledge inspired by @DoWise
Resources in the reply:
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Revision resource for An Inspector Calls on important moments in the play. A single page for each act douglaswise.co.uk/blog/important… 🔍
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Oracy: a tale of three students.
Harry is a boisterous, noisy lad but he's actually smart and perceptive when he chooses to "lock in". Last year I asked Year 9 why they thought Orwell used animals to write about politics. Harry offered a two-word answer. "They're innocent."
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Harry is a boisterous, noisy lad but he's actually smart and perceptive when he chooses to "lock in". Last year I asked Year 9 why they thought Orwell used animals to write about politics. Harry offered a two-word answer. "They're innocent."
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A document with advice to guide students with their English Language Paper 1 Q5 responses douglaswise.co.uk/blog/advice-fo… 📕
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Some advice to help students with their Q5 responses for English Language P2 douglaswise.co.uk/blog/advice-fo… 🖋️
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I’ve tried to make the sources and questions for a mini English Language P2 assessment more accessible for one of the classes I teach by placing everything on a single A3 page. No need for flicking though stuff. I’ve also used more generous spacing and numbered every line 📝
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A simple resource for Black History Month. A couple of slides containing images of fifteen notable figures and hyperlinks that lead to short, student-friendly bios douglaswise.co.uk/blog/black-his… 📖
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En route to a meeting this afternoon, I spoke to a couple of sixth formers who happened to be talking (of all things) about mortgages as I was passing. We chatted briefly and two things became obvious 1/4
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Secondly, connected to this struggle, is the deep pessimism that both students feel about ever being able to get a foot on the property ladder – hence the original conversation they were having when I passed 3/4
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