Extended Writing Skills
Presented to teachers at the London Nautical School, but equally relevant to students – here are a few tips for advanced writers as to how to extend and improve already serviceable writing.
Practice for Examinations
In class we have been exploring bias through looking at two newspapers’ treatment of the same issue. The students had to explore the following questions in relation to the attached...
Dystopian Openings
For four weeks the students have been exploring the deliberate use of sentence-level grammatical structures as part of the following Grammar for Writing programme
Robert Burns – To A Mouse
Today we explored a stanza of Robert Burns’ Poem “To A Mouse” and discussed the intertextual relationship between its message and that of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! (An annotated copy of the...
