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For the English teachers out there, this might hurt you like it hurt me. My FIRST Of Mice and Men lesson today with my year sevens and 1 minute after I said no spoilers, someone typed in the chat “Lennie dies”. I’m taking the week off to recover

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@dd77 Here’s a link to a huge bank of retrieval practice resources I have made and shared over the years, organised into sub-folders for ✅ An Inspector Calls ✅ Macbeth ✅ A Christmas Carol ✅ P & C poetry ✅ L & R poetry Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/ba5hrxc…

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Wider reading booklet to accompany the AQA Power and Conflict poems douglaswise.co.uk/aqa-power-conf… 🪖💥

@msybibi Yes please!

Here’s my updated lesson slides on the intro of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. I don’t really post my ACC lessons because I’m not sure how great they are but if they help one English teacher with planning and workload, I’m happy to share. Comment below if you’d like a copy. 👇🏽

@gasolinethrive Thank you - really like the acknowledgement of tone!

@missocmitchell For both papers, I’d encourage a full 15 mins of Ss navigating the extract or extracts, with 2-3 reads, perhaps the 2nd w a highlighter AND pen & alongside the Qs. Seeking to identify tone at start, over time & at end. 2-3 bullet summary at bottom of each.

Could any Eng teachers share their approach to teaching students how to independently read and understand an extract to put them in the best possible place to start then answering the questions for Lang P1 or P2?

@greeborunner Thank you!!

@missocmitchell Start slow, pausing to check they have got the gist, annotated the important parts, can summarise sections and generally navigate the text. Once they have got the hang of it speed up and reduce the checks. Lots of practise with short sections to time.

@MrBruffEnglish Will absolutely watch this - thanks so much for reaching out!

@missocmitchell I was given a great approach by Chris Curtis, which I explain here: youtu.be/hM9Gv58zDac I've found it's a game changer.

@af_english123 Thank you so much!!

@missocmitchell repetition mostly - reading larger and larger extracts then answering loads of questions about them using MWBs and paired talk, then teaching them to ask the same questions of themselves in their heads- what can i see? who is involved? how do they feel? etc repeat infinitely

@JulieHughes4 Thank you! Perfect!

@missocmitchell Get them to answer these essential questions whenever they read a text - What is the topic? What three things have I learned from the text/what three things happened? What is the mood or atmosphere?

❤️coyg!

Last day of KS4 lead today and from January will be Head of Department! So excited

On the last day next week, our y10s and y11s get to use their house points in an auction to bid for items and I told them I’d contribute my anthology to the auction so today I’ll be spending most of it copying my notes into a fresh anthology 😭

I went to a Christmas fair last weekend at a very sweet primary school and entered a raffle and I have just found out that I won first prize - an iPad! On Saturday it’ll be a year since my dad passed and this is a sign. This is a Christmas present from him. 💖 I just know it

@Miss_GJohnston Thank you so much! X

@missocmitchell Of course - happy to! Will DM you a link x

To anyone planning on spending the last couple of weeks of their holidays planning KS4 units - if you can help it, DON’T. I have full schemes for R+J, ACC, AIC, P+C poetry, Unseen Poetry. Plus Language stuff! Easily accessible links ready to share. Just ask!!!

Now onto Young Mungo

Finished reading @johnboyne series of books in his Element collection: Earth, Water, Fire, Air. They are absolutely fantastic and I would give all of them 5*. Great literature 🕯️📚

@engteacherabro2 please could you send this to me too if I message my email address?

Unseen poetry revision booklet for Spring Break (we are still going for another week and a half...yes, I know!) and Study Leave. Really pleased with this...now on to Comparative Poetry