YouTube channel bringing GCSE students & uni academics together. Mini video lectures on GCSE Lit texts to challenge and inspire students. Run by @HughesHaili

Joined November 2020
Coming tomorrow...a new weekly series of subject knowledge postcards, summing up lit crit papers about GCSE texts. Each week, a new one will be pinned to my thread on here @Team_English1 starting tomorrow with 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker. Great for teachers, perfect for students!
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A level Resource = Poetry Wheel 'Wodwo' - Ted Hughes Created another poetry wheel for A level to support oracy, encourage deeper analysis and expand vocabulary for WJEC Unit 2 Poetry @tedhughessoc @wjec_cbac @EngChatUK @Team_English1 @LitdriveUK @BoostGcse
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English teachers, I'm looking for short case studies of how you've used academic theory/criticism with GCSE students. Please RT and DM if you're interested in contributing
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English teachers, I'm looking for short case studies of how you've used academic theory/criticism with GCSE students. Please RT and DM if you're interested in contributing
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So much fun planning these subject knowledge lecture sessions for @holmfirthhigh English department. Love working with English teachers on subject knowledge development
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The problem with the "better off pissing out of the tent than into it" philosophy is that if you keep doing it you end up with a tent full of people pissing everywhere.
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We can’t wait to work with you, Haili @HHS_Reading
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So excited to be commissioned to work with @holmfirthhigh English department to give 10 lectures on Lord of the Flies to boost staff's subject knowledge. Such a joy to do this work.
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Definitely my last English resource for a while as I have got loads to do! A little bookmark on equivocation in Macbeth:
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Been asked a lot for Jekyll & Hyde resources so adapted a paper here on Queer Theory:
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Just a little one on Banquo's ghost today:
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Last Macbeth resource from me for a couple of weeks - quick bitesize snippet on the 'Out brief candle' part of Macbeth's soliloquy
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A little something on time in the 'Tomorrow' soliloquy in Macbeth:
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Done a little mini lecture on Dickens' authorial style in ACC and genre influences, based on lots of academic papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1JzU… Hope it is useful! RT and tags welcome
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Another critical theory resource for Macbeth - this time looking at the 'If it were done' soliloquy, using a recent paper by Patrick J Murray. Feel free to RT, use, disregard! Last sheet in the next part of the thread! @Team_English1
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Another critical resource about kingship in Macbeth here. You can find the pdf to print on A3 here: drive.google.com/file/d/1jRo…
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Replying to @ClhsEng
New critical resource from me about the 'solitary as an oyster' simile in A Christmas Carol, based on a paper by Craig Buchwald (1990). Feel free to bookmark, share and use if useful @Team_English1
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New critical resource from me about the 'solitary as an oyster' simile in A Christmas Carol, based on a paper by Craig Buchwald (1990). Feel free to bookmark, share and use if useful @Team_English1
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Hi #edutwitter I was wondering if anyone has any engaging extracts for AQA paper 1 (or any that can be adapted to the paper!). I want to add some more to my current go-to collection! @EngMediaCentre @EngliciousUCL @SPryke2 @BoostGcse
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Latest webinar on the parallels between ACC and Dante's 'Divine Comedy' has dropped!
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