Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts

30 June 2024

Poetry "Health Fanatic" by John Cooper Clarke

For most, if not all, English teachers today, the "punk poet" is likely unknown and yet his fast-paced, strongly rhymic and rhythmic street or urban poetry is and has been highly influential. Clarke still tours worldwide, reading his witty, humorous and often ascerbic commentaries on the world in which we live. "Health Fanatic" is one of these.

05 May 2024

Planning a Novel Study


If you have not taught a Literature or a Lang & Lit novel study before, or if you want to know how to incorporate a novel unit into your programme, this one-hour overview will get you started on the right path.

01 December 2023

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf

Our four-part series on this work by one of the most important and influential feminist literary voices. This text is suitable for Cambridge and IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit programmes. 

02 October 2023

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "My Periodic Table" by Oliver Sacks

Our four-part series on this moving reflective essay for students, teachers and those interested in literature, and with a passing knowledge of Chemistry. This deeply-poignant. personal and humorous text by one of our most significant contemporary authors was written on the eve of his death; you may know him from The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

06 July 2023

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Fire at Christmas" by Dylan Thomas


Although technically an extract from a longer work, this piece stands on its own and presents what we expect of a reflective essay and as such, is significant as a literary piece.

The text comes from a Cambridge English Literature programme, and is also appropriate for IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit. 

17 October 2022

Poetry "It Says Here" by Billy Bragg

 

One of our short poems which can be used with the G12 / 4ºM topic. "The media and the message in today’s globalised world". this can be viewed as a single literary work, source for language acquisition and development or a prompt for further exploration and discussion of the points raised.

Poetry "Headline History" by William Plomer

 

One of our short poems which can be used with the G12 / 4ºM topic. "The media and the message in today’s globalised world". this can be viewed as a single literary work, source for language acquisition and development or a prompt for further exploration and discussion of the points raised.

15 October 2022

Poetry "Gutter Press" by Paul Dehn

One of our short poems which can be used with the G12 / 4ºM topic. "The media and the message in today’s globalised world". this can be viewed as a single literary work, source for language acquisition and development or a prompt for further exploration and discussion of the points raised.

Poetry "Girl Reporter" by Philip Hobsbaum

 

An interesting, critical and perhaps somewhat bitter description of journalists and journalism. One of our short poems which can be used with the G12 / 4ºM topic. "The media and the message in today’s globalised world". this can be viewed as a single literary work, source for language acquisition and development or a prompt for further exploration and discussion of the points raised.

Poetry "Eating Noddemix" by Young Marble Giants

 

Show your students you really are the cool teacher you know you are with this work from the album Kurt Cobain called "one of the most influential records he had ever heard". One of our short poems which can be used with the G12 / 4ºM topic. "The media and the message in today’s globalised world". this can be viewed as a single literary work, source for language acquisition and development or a prompt for further exploration and discussion of the points raised.

14 October 2022

Poetry - five short poems for G12 / 4ºM English

We present five short poems which can be used with the G12 / 4ºM topic. "The media and the message in today’s globalised world". Each can be viewed as single literary works, sources for language acquisition and development or prompts for further exploration and discussion of the points raised.

10 October 2022

Poetry "The Sentry" by Wilfred Owen

One of the most important exemplars of first World War "war poetry", this influential poem should be included in every High School English Language and Literature programme, including EFL. The work has also appeared in the Cambridge Literature syllabus, and is appropriate for MYP, IB Dip English A Lang&Lit and AP.

Poetry "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

This influential poem should be included in every High School English Language and Literature programme, including EFL. The work has also appeared in the Cambridge Literature syllabus, and so is appropriate for MYP, IB Dip English A Lang&Lit and AP.

01 December 2021

Open Study

An Open Study is a student-selected and student-directed piece of writing where s/he applies the Response and Analysis tools and techniques acquired and developed in class to literary and non-literary texts. Students select the texts and areas for discussion, while also producing a piece truly representative of the student's competencies and suitable for summative evaluation. 

25 November 2021

Evaluating writing through portfolios

 


Over the course of a year or a programme or a cycle, students amass a significant quantity of written work, some of which shows progress and development, some achievement. These are of course not the same, and a focus on the latter harms the former. Portfolio assessment means the student selects pieces from his/her annual, programme or cycle corpus against defined criteria and the selection as a whole is then assessed, being both representative as will as summative.

28 May 2021

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "A Hanging" by George Orwell

Our four-part series on this work for students, teachers and those interested in literature. This text comes from the Cambridge English Literature book list, and is also appropriate for IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit programmes. 

24 May 2021

Short Story "The Secret Life of Walter MItty" by James Thurber



This is one of those "classics" everyone should have read, and it should be included in any Middle and/or High School English Language and/or Literature programme.

17 May 2021

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "The Stream"

 

This ready-to-use lesson is suitable for both upper-intermediate / advanced English Language classes, and as one or two lessons in a literature mini-unit. 

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway

 

This ready-to-use lesson is suitable for both upper-intermediate / advanced (B2/C1) EFL classes and as the first lesson in a literature mini-unit. Hemingway's moving and influental essay is suitable for use with high school and older students.