A Secondary English teacher with broad subject-specific expertise and eighteen years experience teaching within networked communities of practice. Aspects of my leadership focus on curriculum development, pedagogy, implementation and assessment practices in AQA/Edexcel GCSE, Cambridge IGCSE and IB MYP and DP.
A Secondary English teacher with broad subject-specific expertise and eighteen years experience teaching within networked communities of practice. Aspects of my leadership focus on curriculum development, pedagogy, implementation and assessment practices in AQA/Edexcel GCSE, Cambridge IGCSE and IB MYP and DP.
What is the city but the people?
Our perspective of urbanisation has struggled to understand environmental and economic sustainability and its impact on the interconnectedness between humankind.
Orientation in time and space: Migration
Contents Page
What are we learning and why? 3
Vocabulary 4-6
Lesson 1: Explore how Jane Austen structured sentiment about the virtue of the country and the vice of the city in Pride and Prejudice. 7-8
Lesson 2: Explore how Salman Rushdie structures sentiments about the colonial shadows in Midnight’s Children. 9
Lesson 3: Explore how Vikram Seth structures sentiments about the colonial shadows in A Suitable Boy. 10
Lesson 4: Explore how Hanif Kureishi structures sentiments about migration in The Buddha of Suburbia. 11
Lesson 5: Explore how Rachel Cusk structures sentiments about urbanisation in Outline.12-13
Lesson 6: Explore how country-home economies are promoted on social media platforms.14-15
Lesson 7: Explore how country-home economies are promoted on social media platforms.16
Lesson 8: Analyse how writers structure feelings towards country and city in their writing. 17
Lesson 9: Evaluate how attitudes towards migration have change. 18-19
Lesson 10: Evaluate how attitudes towards migration have changed. 20
In this Knowledge Booklet, I’ve focused on meeting the needs of students in my year 8 class - predominantly Korean students. The format of the Knowledge Booklet follows MYP English Language and Literature.
A series of lessons on Part One and Part Two of the Stranger.
Obviously, the active analysis Socratic Seminars will need to be adapted to reflect your own teaching group.
Connected to IB DP Year 1 Intertextuality Paper 2.
A complete unit of work with Powerpoints.
A series of ten lessons (PPTS) based on the work in translation: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Learning objectives explore the novel in time and space. Obviously, you’ll need to adapt my active analysis Socratic Seminars to reflect your own teaching group. The assessments focus on Paper two questions in the IB Diploma.
Year 10: Perspective is the position from which we observe situations, objects, facts, ideas and opinions. Perspective may be associated with individuals, groups, cultures or disciplines. Different perspectives often lead to multiple representations and interpretations.
MYP key concept: Perspective. Related concept: Point of view
Summaries of the Staves.
Drill questions.
Four extended writing points.
Modelled writing.
Original copy of the text.
A PPT lesson to develop skills in preparation for an assessment
on: Do newspapers matter in the digital age?
This is an MYP lesson which you could adapt.
A single lesson to explore the concept of culture with reference to Adorno and Horkheimer to develop thinking skills and prepare students for reflective writing.
Is all the world a stage?
I’ve put this Year 7 MYP English Language and Literature Knowledge Booklet together using the play, Sparkleshark by Philip Ridley
Feel free to adapt the assessments