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Monthly Archives: October 2008
The Rivals Wiki
By now, if you’re in the AS Lang/Lit group, you should have received an invitation to sign up to the Wiki I’ve created for The Rivals. If you wish to use another email address rather than your school one, then … Continue reading
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Casino Royale
I’ve managed to edit out the clip you need, as a glorious DivX avi file that gives you the original aspect ratio of the film. You may need to download the DivX codec to view it (just google DivX and … Continue reading
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Background to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
I was really impressed with the interest my Year 8 class showed in thinking about the issues that our reading of Striped Pyjamas brought up today. Well done those of you who asked questions and contributed your knowledge and ideas. … Continue reading
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Categories
You should see on the right hand side that there now ‘category’ links. Posts aimed at a specific class (or classes) will be tagged with that category, so you can jump straight to any posts aimed specifically at you by … Continue reading
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Cracking Grammar
It became clear in Friday’s Y12 Lang lesson that: having to do exercises on language concepts really helped to clarify your knowledge and understanding few of you had taken advantage of the resources I keep mentioning that will help you … Continue reading
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Ucas blog
Year 13s may like to remember the existence of the Ucas application blog at Ucas0809.edublogs.org
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Jackie Brown
Filmy people: the opening sequence of Jackie Brown can now be found on Frog: Classroom>FilmStudies>Mr Heald>Clips I tried to put the work in your ‘My Space’ area but when I assigned the work to the class there were no students’ … Continue reading
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Film Studies: David Thomson on Today
Film critic David Thomson has written a book called Have You Seen? whcih covers 1000 classic films, one per page. he’s all over the media at the moment, but I came across him being interviewed on Today just as I … Continue reading
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Heald English 