Dealing with Shakespeare - Writing about the Bard's Building Blocks
Do you remember the difference we use between structure and form? Structure is the way the ideas move in the text. We look for shifts in...
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Kate Addison
- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
Writing about the building blocks - part 2
Once you've identified the structure elements that you want to discuss, now comes the time that you must write it up. This is also a...
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Kate Addison
- Oct 21, 2022
- 3 min
Writing about the Building Blocks
Identifying structural elements, and talking about effect - part 1 of 2 What shall I write about structure? What can I find to talk...
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Kate Addison
- Oct 7, 2022
- 2 min
Writing the soundtrack
Writing about sound in text (part 3) We've analysed a poem for sounds, and we've managed to ascribe a term and a symbolic meaning to each...
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Kate Addison
- Sep 25, 2022
- 6 min
Talking about the Soundtrack to Life
How to analyse sound in text - part 2 We've already looked at steps 1 and 2 in part 1 of how to analyse sound in text Now to Step 3 -...
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Kate Addison
- Sep 22, 2022
- 4 min
The Soundtrack to Life
Analysing sound in text - part 1 We all know that poetry is simply dreaming. Entire franchises and the careers of numerous psychologists...
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Kate Addison
- Sep 5, 2022
- 3 min
English by Numbers
0. The first step... There is quite a common thread in the thinking of the teaching of English that things like beautiful writing, and...
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Kate Addison
- Mar 11, 2022
- 4 min
Rediscovering Scrooge - The Non-Transformation of a Miser
Scrooge’s Carol - losing the mask. A Carol: ‘A song, especially of joy. A Christmas song or hymn’. The traditionally taught timeline...
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Kate Addison
- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
When a Picture is Not a Picture
Using symbols: how to write analysis Your English teacher definitely taught you one of these acronyms: PEE, PEA, PEEL, PQE, PQA... or a...
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Kate Addison
- Feb 1, 2022
- 5 min
How to make a big deal out of a little dot
Analysing punctuation in poetry. You already know that when you analyse poetry you should analyse language, structure and form. To...
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Kate Addison
- Nov 21, 2020
- 1 min
What is Active Learning?
In active learning a variety of strategies (e.g. ‘rainbow grouping’ - imagine a posh dinner party where you actually follow the rule...
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