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Phonetics worksheet on Prosody
05 Monday Jun 2017
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04 Sunday Jun 2017
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inWhat happens when phonemes meet (and answers for p3)
03 Saturday Jun 2017
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10 Sunday Jul 2016
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inPlanning for next year and trying to fit things into a framework led me to Laurie Smith’s paper on ‘Life after Levels’.
‘…Students will need regular formative and summative assessments during Years 7 to 11. These will be most effective if they are carried out on the same basis throughout the five years and relate directly to the assessment objectives for the new GCSE examinations.’…
2 per half term, one Lit, one Lang, based on a question from the GCSE papers + lots of cognitive acceleration (his LetsThink programme at KCL). Relieved to find someone so reasonably critical of APP/Levels so I’ll be exploring it by starting with Adey’s Really Raising Standards.
03 Tuesday Jun 2014
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inSo the choice of 19th C novel for GCSE English Lit in England and Wales from 2015 is Great Expectations, Christmas Carol, Sign of Four, Silas Marner, Jane Eyre, Jekyll and Hyde and Pride and Prejudice and War of the Worlds. Which to teach? Let’s size up the choices first: 544pp(GE), 385(JE), 373(P+P), 192(SM), 138(Sof4), 91pp(J+H), 86(CC), 303(WofW). The pre-2015 choice which caused all the row this week, was between: To Kill a Mockingbird (384pp), Purple Hibiscus (250), Mr Pip (256), Rabbit Proof Fence (136), and Of Mice and Men(106). If Mr Gove is right that 80% of students studied Steinbeck’s novel, perhaps he will end up with the same issue in the new curriculum, with schools concentrating their efforts on the shorter novels? My Head of Department said we didn’t do Adichie because she wasn’t confident the examiners would know the text! Of course the solution is author lists as in the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme. Oh but that’s not realistic because it’s a bit international and that’s not the direction of travel now there’s no more Nigerian, Australian, Papua New Guinean novels anyway . After all KS4 is to prepare pupils for life after school in the British Isles, and their ‘principal focus’ should be English Literature, through which they will appreciate the ‘power’ of the English literary heritage. Yuck.
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inFoExp case studies – Ongoing battle for freedom of expression in Russia. Links in with UK treatment of protesters – lots of good material here – http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/g20-police-assault-ian-tomlinson.
Article 31 of the Russian constitution guarantees – ‘Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to gather peacefully, without weapons, and to hold meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets.’ – See Guardian and RFE content – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/30/russian-protesters-31ers /http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Police_Break_Up_Article_31_Protests/2000057.html
[http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/ch2.html / http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-03.htm%5D