01 December 2024

January 2025 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Literature

Welcome to our fifth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. 

A series of short, complete texts which can be used in a typical double (90-minute) class at High School and above (EFL) and with good Upper Primary/Middle School E2L and E1L students. Each is an iconic text we should all read to be educated (and civilsed!).

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Essays

"The Stream" - author unknown
6.30 - 7.30pm, Monday 6 January 2025

"Indian Camp" - Ernest Hemingway
6.00 - 7.00pm, Tuesday 7 January 2025

"Death of the Moth" - Virginia Moth
6.30 - 7.30pm, Wednesday 8 January 2025

"A Hanging" - George Orwell
6.00 - 7.00pm, Thursday 9 January 2025

"Ha'penny" by Alan Paton
6.30 - 7.30pm, Friday 10 January 2025

"My Periodic Table" - Oliver Sacks
6.30 - 7.30pm, Monday 27 January 2025

"Professions for Women" - Virginia Woolf
6.30 - 7.30pm, Wednesday 29 January 2025

Poetry

"A Poison Tree" by William Blake
6.30 - 7.30pm, Monday 13 
January 2025

"Health Fanatic" by John Cooper Clarke
6.00 - 7.00pm, Tuesday 
14 January 2025

"The Sentry" by Wilfred Owen
6.30 - 7.30pm, Wednesday 15 January 2025 

"It Says Here" by Billy Bragg
6.00 - 7.00pm, Thursday 
16 January 2025

"The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
6.30 - 7.30pm, Friday 17 January 2025

"Gutter Press" by Paul Dehn
6.00 - 7.00pm, Tuesday 28 January 2025

"Girl Reporter" by Philip Hobsbaum
6.00 - 7.00pm, Thursday 30 January 2025

Short Stories

"The Secret Life of Walter MItty" by James Thurber
6.30 - 7.30pm, Monday 2
0 January 2025

"Her First Ball" by Katherine Mansfield
6.00 - 7.00pm, Tuesday 
21 January 2025

"The Furnished Room" by O Henry
6.30 - 7.30pm, Wednesday 22 January 2025

"The Stoat" by John McGahern
6.00 - 7.00pm, Thursday 23 January 2025

"Journey" by Patricia Grace
6.30 - 7.30pm, Friday 24 January 2025

"The Moving Finger" by Edith Wharton
6.30 - 7.30pm, Friday 31 January 2025

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