Written in the stars? Rubbish! It’s too easy to imagine Shakespeare’s England as a kind of ‘Golden Age’: a moment of cultural confidence, newly ordered and secure. It was nothing like that.

with little time for all this cosmic mumbo-jumbo. 

But when you reject the cosmos, what should you trust instead?

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How the mighty have fallen ... If you know me even slightly, you’ll expect me to go sideways with this week’s theme. So here we are: HORSES.

The theme is ‘Horses’.

As usual, I’ve slipped my bridle, because I want to complain about Antony and Cleopatra …

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Unpacking Poetry #04: The Canonisation Before you read on - I highly recommend you read the poem, preferably out loud, and have a think about it for a good 5 minutes or so. If you’re a student, you need to flex your muscles at reacting and...

marrying Ann More in secret?

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to a decent structure for your plan!

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- the unique and superb 'Goblin Market'.

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... there's a lot to like in 'Mean Time', too.

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for that one, too.

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It will take 30 minutes, maximum, and it is brilliant.

Fun fact about Swift: he faked his own death so that he could find out what people would say about him ...

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As mock-season approaches, a decade’s experience in the classroom suggests that students end up in one of several tribes - but which?

A light-hearted overview, with some serious messages.

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The main image is a stylised picture of Hercules, flexing a bicep whilst wearing the fur of the Nemean Lion (the first of his labours).

I've been a big fan of @olicav.bsky.social for ages.
#dualcoding works!

I promised a tutee two every week. She's got a couple of quotations verbatim, and key words from the other two.

If you need help here, it's Hercules.

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Three cheers for another #shakespearesunday!

(and for avoiding Richard III for this week's entry!)

I encourage you all to have a go, if you're not already. When you look back on them it's a great look at the year/

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What can you do with these as I make them?

GOOD: test yourself weekly on the quotation;
BETTER: mindmap what you’d say in an exam for three minutes, covering those AOs

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Had to happen ...

On realising that I was doing these for my #Faustus students, of course I've been asked to do some #Hamlet ones, too.

An easy one to begin with: but can you remember much beyond the obvious 5 words?

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FUN FACT: one of my English teachers shares the name Mary Ann Evans with 'George Eliot'.

Hi Miss! Who would have thought I'd be an English teacher now :)

Gateway text? Before attempting 'Middlemarch', try 'The Mill on the Floss'.
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After Tolstoy yesterday, another giant of #russianliterature today.

At one point, a court sentenced Dostoyevsky to execution: a good job for us that was commuted.

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Text of poem Elephant by Suzanna Fitzpatrick from September issue of Dust poetry.

Another 🔥 poem to add to teaching Unseen Poetry at #AlevelEnglishLit 🎓🍎
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For me (teaching Edexcel) I would compare it with from #PoemsoftheDecade A Minor Role by UA Fanthorpe Theme: illness.