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Mr B
@theengagingteacher.bsky.social
Teacher, trainer & cake-baker. Avid reader, sporadic juggler &wannabe cunning linguist. Edu-blogger, bad-guitarist & overly fond of the rule of three.

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I remember having to visit a school refuser's house to record her GCSE oral exam with her.

Halfway through her mum switched on the washing machine. Helpful!
March 11, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Cute?! It's like a suspended disembodied wolf's head of doom and despair.
March 1, 2024 at 6:50 PM
10 bands/artists you have been obsessed with at some point in your life. In no particular order:

Rage against the Machine
Tracy Chapman
Rose Kemp
Abigail Lapell
Björk
MC Solaar
The Be Good Tanyas
Whale Bone Polly
This is the Kit
Kate Bush
February 24, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Teaching The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk right now.
February 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM
We had maggots falling out of our light fitting once. I gentle drizzle strengthening to a persistent rain.

We put out a baking tray to catch them, then put them on the bird table.
February 15, 2024 at 6:18 AM
Either of the above.

Plus reading each other's writing.
February 11, 2024 at 5:43 PM
At least 5. Need to see the answers to know for sure.
February 11, 2024 at 9:31 AM
You say this, but the Spanish language teacher at our school taught this one year with Year 8 students (ages 12-13). In translation obviously. I kid you not.
February 10, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Sure. But this only goes so far. I remember one student's essay on Donne "The flea" that argued it was all a metaphor for depression. Er. No.

However, I love it when I have a multicultural class and realisation dawns that some metaphors don't cross cultures. Thus everyone makes their own meaning.
February 4, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Sounds very old school. Kind of like Austen's "Dear Reader" or the way Leskov starts lots of his short stories. From more modern writers, I'm pretty sure there's also a sequence in Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series that addresses the reader as the subject.
February 4, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Oh wow, that looks great! I read her "Wintergirls" and thought it was excellent.
February 3, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Wow, that sucks. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
February 2, 2024 at 7:47 PM
No. Will nag the librarian to put it on the order list for September.
January 30, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Yes, really enjoyed this too.
January 28, 2024 at 2:15 PM