Creative Writing – More Pixar than Eastenders!
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May 09, 2021
O h what a crazy time it is. I think all of us are in this blur of quickly teaching, quickly assessing and quickly marking work for Year 11s...
Showing posts with label AQA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AQA. Show all posts
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Unseen poetry – developing mental models of writing styles
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April 25, 2021
Some forms of writing come naturally. We are wired to tell stories and that shows itself when students write stories. Other forms of writing...
Sunday, June 21, 2020
I love the smell of red herrings in creative writing
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June 21, 2020
I make no bones about it but I cannot stand ‘Freytag’s Pyramid ’ for story writing. In fact, I loathe its very existence. It warps stories b...
Sunday, March 15, 2020
I shot the counterargument but I didn’t shoot the argument
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March 15, 2020
At the moment, I have been marking some Paper 2 mocks and the whole process is making me revise how we teach non-fiction. To be honest, I fi...
