Monthly Archives: November 2012

Off-Piste Reading

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Mr Heald

In our Y12 English Language & Literature lesson today, the burden of assessment objectives, and mark bands grew ever more tiresome, and talk turned to English Club and thence to T S Eliot, and then to fact that most of the … Continue reading →

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Sixth-Form English Club

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Mr Heald

Half a dozen sixth formers and I met for a very pleasant hour after school last Wednesday, and will do say again this week, for cake and poetry. Among the comments made were that it was really enjoyable to be … Continue reading →

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Linguistics Club

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Mr Heald

Anyone who is interested in language, other languages, or logic puzzles may like to have a go at some challenging language problems with the possibility of entering the UK Lingustics Olympiad in February. It’s open to sixth-formers studying any subject, … Continue reading →

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McAuley Young Reporters

Posted on November 26, 2012 by mrsfmarshall

At some point this week, either in form time or during assembly, you will hear about McAuley Young Reporters. Working with the Doncaster Free Press, a group of McAuley students will write articles for our local paper about the issues … Continue reading →

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EngLangList (weekly)

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Mr Heald

Bishop Robert Lowth’s ” A Short Introduction to English Grammar” (1762) Facsimile edition of Lowth’s Gramma Tags: grammar, change, documents, pdf, facsimile, prescriptivism, ENGB3, Lowth – By Ant Heald Posted from Diigo. The rest of English Language Teachers group favorite … Continue reading →

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Romeo and Juliet Online

Posted on November 8, 2012 by mrsfmarshall

Year 11 have been preparing for a Speaking and Listening assessment based on Romeo and Juliet. In our revision of the play we had re-told the story in Facebook or Twitter statuses with some fantastic results. This particular group decided … Continue reading →

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EngLangList (weekly)

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Mr Heald

Hermeneuti.ca – The Rhetoric of Text Analysis Simple but effective online text analysis tool. Tags: Corpus, discourse, text analysis, tools, engb4, investigation – By Ant Heald Language & Gender – a research update for teachers Tags: ENGB1, gender – By Ant … Continue reading →

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Year 11 – Letters to the Editor

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Mr Heald

My Year 11 English GCSE class have recently been working on writing a letter to our local newspaper, The Doncaster Free Press.  We are preparing for the Unit 1 exam in January, and spent much of the first half-term working on … Continue reading →

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More Shakespeare stuff

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Mr Heald

Further to Mr Poole’s links to the excellent BBC Shakespeare programmes, I recently came across an excellent guide to some of the best online Shakespeare resources. Read it here: Shakespeare online

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