Joanne
@joannemc.bsky.social
Lead practitioner for English. I love reading, books and cultivating my library. 📚 Likely to be found with a little black cat 🐈⬛ & a cup of tea 🫖.
Today a year seven student referenced 'Not waving, but drowning' in a piece of creative writing. Unprompted. 🤯
October 3, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Today a year seven student referenced 'Not waving, but drowning' in a piece of creative writing. Unprompted. 🤯
Interesting. I think vocabulary is the biggest barrier to my pupil's perceived belief that they don't understand Jekyll & Hyde.
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'The rare vocabulary problem in English Literature'
“They draw a causal link between the dense language, current text choices, and the reality that a quarter of students fail to get a good pass.”
alexquigley.co.uk/the-rare-voc...
'The rare vocabulary problem in English Literature'
“They draw a causal link between the dense language, current text choices, and the reality that a quarter of students fail to get a good pass.”
alexquigley.co.uk/the-rare-voc...
The rare vocabulary problem in English Literature
What is the connection between the following words:
Coiffured, dowerless, sepulchre, docilely, spasmodically, ardour, lament, apoplectic, prostrate, care-worn, apoplectic, urchin, munificence, and e...
alexquigley.co.uk
September 23, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Interesting. I think vocabulary is the biggest barrier to my pupil's perceived belief that they don't understand Jekyll & Hyde.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky 💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky 💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
September 23, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky 💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky 💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
I have not quite sussed out how to use this app properly but OMAM is trending on twitter and I can't deal with the oblivious (non-educators) commenting. Just nope. It was removed from the GCSE curriculum for being American- but that doesn't suit their narrative!
September 23, 2024 at 6:32 PM
I have not quite sussed out how to use this app properly but OMAM is trending on twitter and I can't deal with the oblivious (non-educators) commenting. Just nope. It was removed from the GCSE curriculum for being American- but that doesn't suit their narrative!
Oasis playing Heaton Park is alllllll about the money.
August 28, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Oasis playing Heaton Park is alllllll about the money.
I love a train trip, but it infuriates me that the MCR- LDN service is dismally worse than it used to be. It shouldn't take nearly 40 minutes longer than it used to!
August 24, 2024 at 11:24 AM
I love a train trip, but it infuriates me that the MCR- LDN service is dismally worse than it used to be. It shouldn't take nearly 40 minutes longer than it used to!
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My favourite time of year are these coming back.
An art history of back to school othmarstrombone.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/a...
An art history of back to school
Ever since I published 'An art history of school inspections' a few years ago, studying the way that art has portrayed schools has been somewhat of a hobby of mine. In this post, I'll take you through...
othmarstrombone.wordpress.com
August 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM
My favourite time of year are these coming back.
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Bloody hell this is good. Harrowing. And she certainly has a strong story to tell about the “pens debate”! Still only halfway - what an absorbing read.
August 22, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Bloody hell this is good. Harrowing. And she certainly has a strong story to tell about the “pens debate”! Still only halfway - what an absorbing read.
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Over the last ten years , there have been numerous people I admired who were revealed to be a bit or a lot URGH - but I have never found myself without books to read or art to love because the space made by losing them is filled by new voices and creations who have often given greater delight
August 22, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Over the last ten years , there have been numerous people I admired who were revealed to be a bit or a lot URGH - but I have never found myself without books to read or art to love because the space made by losing them is filled by new voices and creations who have often given greater delight
Why is it always autumnal after results day? 🍁🌰🍄 It's as if the weather decides to help acclimatise us into going back to work!
August 23, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Why is it always autumnal after results day? 🍁🌰🍄 It's as if the weather decides to help acclimatise us into going back to work!
Results day is always an emotional one. Very proud of my students today (and most days!)
August 22, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Results day is always an emotional one. Very proud of my students today (and most days!)
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Excellent blog on reading a complex text (using a geography example) to exemplify a helpful disciplinary literacy approach by @jdurran.bsky.social
jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...
jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...
Disciplinary literacy: reading a challenging text in the classroom
This post unpacks a typical approach to reading a challenging text, in this case in a geography lesson. It also describes a number of practices associated with strong ‘adaptive teaching’. Reading chal...
jamesdurran.blog
August 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Excellent blog on reading a complex text (using a geography example) to exemplify a helpful disciplinary literacy approach by @jdurran.bsky.social
jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...
jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...