Ros Atkins’s The Art of Explanation: how to communicate with clarity and confidence is a fascinating fine-grained account of how he has reached the status of one of broadcasting’s most impressive ‘explainers’.
Read MoreIdeas for the use of a Ros Atkins ‘explainer’ in English class.
Read MoreSome comments on the recent NCCA ‘Report on the role of prescribed text lists in Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate English and the processes involved in text selection.’
Read MorePerspectives on the Teaching of English in Post-Primary Education, edited by Kevin Cahill and Niamh Dennehy, is a comprehensive and valuable collection of essays on the way the subject is taught and studied in Ireland.
Read MoreProfessor Karim-Cooper’s The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, race and the future is a rich and provocative look at the plays with a fresh eye.
Read MoreSome thoughts on where we are with Leaving Certificate English, as Senior Cycle Reform gets closer, and as the AI revolution gathers pace.
Read MoreA post published originally in June 2009, following the incident when Paper 2 Leaving Certificate English had to be rescheduled, and there was a media firestorm.
Read MoreAn analysis of the literature paper at Higher Level in the 2023 Leaving Certificate.
Read MoreA response to Paper 1 (English Language), Higher Level, in the 2023 Leaving Certificate.
Read MoreSophie Duncan’s Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine is a wide-ranging account of the many afterlives of one of literature’s most famous protagonists.
Read MoreTwo free webinars in the 2023-24 academic year: on Hamlet, and on cognitive science (an introduction).
Read MoreJonathan Bate’s Bright Star, Green Light, a parallel-biography of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, is essential reading for English teachers.
Read MoreA few ideas about effective ideas in preparing for the English Leaving Certificate: mostly things which don’t take much time.
Read MoreA report on the second English Meet, with 6 English teachers presenting ideas from their teaching practice.
Read MoreA talk on Yeats’s poem ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’.
Read More5-minute talks on relatively ‘lesser’ characters in Hamlet.
Read More15 video/audio annotations of key moments in The Great Gatsby.
Read More15 video annotations of key moments in Hamlet.
Read MoreThe plan to move English (and Irish) Paper 1 in the Leaving Certificate has been ‘deferred’. A response.
Read More20 video/audio annotations of key moments in Macbeth.
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