I am a child of the edgelands. The Black Country where I grew up, and where I still live, occupies a space between the city-sprawl of Birmingham and the woodlands that border the Severn and the Stour rivers which wind their way through its scarred landscape. The districts of Netherton and the Wrens Nest formed my… Continue reading An In-Betweener: Edgelands Memories
I’ve put together a lesson PPT that shows how we can use the evaluation question to craft a response to structure. It’s based on the November 2020 GCSE English Language paper, so I don’t want to make this open access in case you’re using it for ‘other purposes’. Let me know if you want the… Continue reading Evaluation into structure
Originally posted on Mr Hanson's English :
The following session was inspired by some work I’ve been doing with an Erasmus project on dialectical talk – you can read more about this here. Never was a professional studies session more topical than the one we held last week on inclusion and curriculum. Coming in the…
Originally posted on Mr Hanson's English :
We know that students find the structure question on AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 1 a difficult nut to crack. Here’s an example from June 2019: You now need to think about the whole of the source. This text is from the beginning of a short story. How…
Originally posted on Mr Hanson's English :
The link below will take you to a folder with some resources that I have put together based on GCSE English Language Paper 1, November 2018 (the ‘dinosaur paper’). The PPTs are focussed on the reading section: there are seven lessons with detailed advice on how to answer…
The link below will take you to a folder with some resources that I have put together based on GCSE English Language Paper 1, November 2018 (the ‘dinosaur paper’). The PPTs are focussed on the reading section: there are seven lessons with detailed advice on how to answer each question. There is also a lesson… Continue reading Some lessons for GCSE English Language Paper 1
We know that students find the structure question on AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 1 a difficult nut to crack. Here’s an example from June 2019: You now need to think about the whole of the source. This text is from the beginning of a short story. How has the writer structured the text to… Continue reading GCSE English Language Paper 1: using the evaluation question to help with ‘structure’
I’ll put together a written version of this PPT and video and publish it on the blog soon. For now, please don’t judge me too badly on my video production skills. I’ll get better, I promise.
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) In my last blog, I wrote about the importance of mood as a means of examining texts. In this blog, I am going to apply some of these principles to a reading of the opening scene of Edgar Allan Poe’s story, The Fall of the… Continue reading Mood as a key concept in English: part two of three
A Contemplation of ‘Mood’ Whenever I think of the ‘mood’ of a text, I am reminded of The Fall of the House of Usher, for Edgar Allan Poe’s claustrophobic tale of premature burial, catatonic states, enervation, ennui, despair, and emotional as well as architectural decay, possesses a mood so utterly desolate that it is as… Continue reading Mood as a key concept in English: part one of three
