1. Reckoner - Radiohead
2. The Barrel - Aldous Harding
3. Angel’s Song - Arlo Parks
4. Retrograde - James Blake
5. Spanish Sahara - Foals

#FridayFive

1. Rain - The Beatles
2. Rainy Night in Soho - Pogues
3. Dry the Rain - Beta Band
4. It Never Rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond
5. Riders on the Storm - the Doors (I’m having it)

attention and participation. of course, they do not guarantee learning, but they are prerequisites. ratio describes this well.

Checks for listening using MWBs prior to more thorough, written checks for understanding. Useful for increasing student accountability during explanations, and obtaining higher success rate during understanding checks and practice.

Or, given students will leave university with 50k of debt, they are simply looking to maximise returns on investment. Sadly, an English lit degree isn’t the way to do that. This is good: substack.nomoremarking.com/p/the-fall-o...

That the compulsory English curriculum should include at least one nineteenth century novel from anywhere, a modern English novel and a work of Shakespeare was a good change *and* most schools don't have good enough behaviour policies to teach Of Mice & Men and not have it spill into the playground.

#FridayFive
1. The Killing Moon - the Bunnymen
2. The Dark of the Matinée - Franz Ferdinand
3. Blackstar - Bowie
4. Under Cover of Darkness - The Strokes
5. You Want it Darker - Leonard Cohen