100 for 100 Macbeth, by Stuart Pryke and Amy Staniforth
English teachers will appreciate 100 for 100 Macbeth, by Stuart Pryke and Amy Staniforth, which is directed at student revision, but also has lots of opportunities for class work.
Read More'Small Things Like These': teaching notes 3
Teaching notes on Sections 4 and 5 of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These.
Read MoreOn Victoria Kennefick's 'Egg/Shell'
Victoria Kennefick’s second collection Egg/Shell builds on and deepens the achievements of Eat Or We Both Starve.
Read More'Small Things Like These': teaching notes 2
Second series of teaching notes on Small Things Like These, covering Section 3.
Read MoreWebinar on teaching 'Small Things Like These'
A free webinar via Tralee Education Support Service for teachers of Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These.
Read More'Small Things Like These': teaching notes 1
Post 1 of Teaching Notes on Claire Keegan’s novel 'Small Things Like These.
Read More'Small Things Like These': resources and links
A summary of useful resources and links on Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These. Notes follow in other posts.
Read MoreOn Teaching Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thoughts on teaching the extraordinary poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Read MoreEmma Smith on Four Tragedies
Notes on the four major tragedies from Emma Smith’s book This is Shakespeare.
Read MoreGabriel Josipovici's '100 Days'
Gabriel Josipovici’s 100 Days is an account both of the first three months of the pandemic, and of the author’s deep engagement with culture during his long life.
Read MoreEnglish Meet 2024
The third English Meet is being planned for Wednesday 1st May.
Read MoreEmma Smith on 'King Lear'
Notes on the ‘King Lear’ chapter of Emma Smith’s book This is Shakespeare.
Read MoreOn libraries: a personal history
A personal essay on the libraries I have used over the years.
Read MoreTralee Webinar: Cognitive Science in English
Notes and links from a Tralee Education Support Centre webinar to introduce the principles of cognitive science to English teachers in Ireland who are unfamiliar with them. January 2024.
Read MoreOn 'Notability' for teaching
A recommendation for my most-used classroom tool, the iOS app Notability.
Read MoreDonna Leon's 'Wandering Through Life'
Donna Leon, at the age, has written a ‘memoir’ in the form of 30 vignettes about her life and cultural interests.
Read MoreTom Needham's 'Explicit English Teaching'
Tom Needham’s Explicit English Teaching is a rare example of a book for our subject that is based on the principles of cognitive science.
Read MoreShakespeare: 'In Our Time'
A list of the BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’ episodes about Shakespeare.
Read MoreBooks of the Year, 2023
My Books of 2023.
Read MoreReading Catch-up, December 2023
Some short reviews which first appeared in the Fortnightly since the summer.
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