@upstart-english.bsky.socialUntil I read 'A Modest Proposal’ at university, I hadn't properly understood that writing like this was possible.
Now, I like to encourage it in my students.
#WritingSkills #Literature #JonathanSwift #ALevelEnglishLiterature #EnglishTutor
@upstart-english.bsky.socialCan you weaponise a human being and keep your innocence?
"A few quiet words. A token exchanged. And two children are condemned to be murdered in their sleep.”
#ShakespeareSunday #Shakespeare #RichardIII #ALevelEnglishLiterature #EnglishTutor
@upstart-english.bsky.socialIssue Twelve of First 100 Words - a close reading of the opening of Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’.
She’s precocious, energetic, intelligent, driven even. But I think I could only take Briony in pretty small doses.
#IanMcEwan #First100Words #EnglishLiterature #ALevelEnglishLiterature
@upstart-english.bsky.socialNo student wants to hunt through a 77-page specification. What you need is a 1-page map of what's important.
Simpler, but not simplistic.
#TuitionInPractice #ALevelEnglishLiterature #EdexcelEnglishLiterature #EnglishLiterature #AssessmentObjectives
@upstart-english.bsky.socialWhat is Richard III’s ‘worst’ crime?
Shakespeare asks us some -very- interesting questions about our personal morality (and how society values ‘life’), if we can look beyond the ‘Princes in the Tower’.
#Shakespeare #RichardIII #ALevelEnglishLiterature #Literature #EnglishTutor
@upstart-english.bsky.social@upstart-english.bsky.socialand tune in tomorrow evening to see if you're right — and then, to see gif you agree with what I've found in those first 100 words.
#First100Words #EnglishLiterature #CloseReading #ALevelEnglishLIterature #EnglishTutor
@upstart-english.bsky.socialPeople want answers.
Actually, they often want THE answer.
But the truth is, there are many possible answers: yours begins within you, my child (Jedi hand gestures are optional). My job's to help you bring it out and shape it.