🧵 The English language is ‘in decline’! Or is it?

From ‘skibidi’ panic to disappearing full stops, the media love a language crisis narrative. A Level English Language gives students the tools to sharpen their critical lens. #ALevelEnglish #LanguageChange

habits, of minds.

We tend to think distraction is something that happens to us. More often, it’s something built into the spaces we accept without question.

Take away the centrepiece, and you get a choice back.

And choice can be hard.

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we’ve stopped noticing.

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The poem doesn’t end with nostalgia. It ends with a decision.

“I’ll dig with it.”

Same impulse. Different instrument.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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us bearable to ourselves.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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Same method. Less room for error.

If students struggle in essays, it’s rarely because they know nothing.
It’s because they haven’t yet turned what they know into something they can use.
That’s the gap this closes.

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reminds us that even perfect rules leave room for doubt and misinterpretation. Maybe that’s a good thing. But maybe not.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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Thanks to @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social for setting the usual thought-provoking theme.

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→ what needs fixing

→ what to try next, right here, in this sentence

That’s the difference between correcting a piece of writing … 
and building a writer.

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always in the process of revising, whether we mean to or not. And then we have to contend, too, with the forces who want to influence that process.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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what arrives, but what takes hold.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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this week's theme.

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what works.
Not just what’s missing.
But what needs to change. And how.

That’s the work behind every Deep Dive: close reading, clear thinking, and decisive writing - with guidance at every step.

Message me for more information .

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Woolf’s genius lies in showing that what matters is not simply what happens, but how it is experienced: how meaning is made in the act of observing.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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often oblivious to what we're doing.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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Blood will have blood ... This week’s #ShakespeareSunday is theme-free. So what’s on my mind? Hands.

A theme-free #ShakespeareSunday weekend sees Shakespeare almost blowing his ten-syllable ‘budget’ on just two glorious words!

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It is effective.

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The best thinking? It's ORGANISED thinking. I tried something slightly different in a tutorial today. Instead of writing a set of notes, I recorded the entire session as a mind map while we talked.

Essays begin with ideas, connections, and structure. One you've got the last one, the others become a lot easier.

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“Every monster has a mother.”

This Mother’s Day, let’s upset that rosy apple-cart a bit. You wouldn't expect anything else from me by now ...

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Before Shakespeare, there was art. Like many children, I once wanted to be an astronaut. When that ambition quietly evaporated, I decided I would become a painter instead.

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Spent this morning in Swansea, giving a talk on King Lear for A Level students.

Teachers interested in interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level can email darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

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