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How to read creatively: noticing in English

Oct 03, 2020 | Category: English
… languages recognized, not as the means of contemporary communication but as investments in thought and records of perceptions and analogical understandings; literatures recognized as the contemplati...
#English #Literature #Reading #Michael Oakeshott #Andrew Bennett #Nicholas Royce #Ralph Waldo Emerson

Are 'closed book' examinations a bad idea?

Apr 06, 2017 | Category: English
Changes to the GCSE English Literature specifications are, apparently, starting to bite. As well as abandoning the modular approach to assessment in which students sat 2 separate modular exams and com...
#English #Literature #learning by heart

Zooming in and out

Jul 11, 2011 | Category: English
For some years now I have been using what I call The Grade Ladder with students to help them understand the skills required to perform at different grades. This isn't particularly original and has bee...
#analysing #bloom's taxonomy #English #evaluating #GCSE #Literature #Of Mice and Men

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