GCSE 9 1 English Weekly Webinar 1 Agenda

GCSE (9 -1) English Weekly Webinar 1

Agenda • Check-in – how are we all coping? • English online resources – the best of the week. • Language ideas and resources of the week. • Literature ideas and resources of the week. • Questions and answer – what more can we do to help? • Breaking news – what is coming next! 2

Check-in Who is here and how are you doing? What has been your biggest challenge? What/who has been your saviour? What is your greatest worry for the coming weeks? What type of biscuit have you chosen for this meeting, and why? 3

GCSE (9 -1) English Online resources

English online resources On Twitter: https: //support. pearson. com/uk/s/feed/0 D 50 N 0000 DLbi 2 ZSQR. 5

Top Tweeters Jennifer Webb @Funky. Pedagogy Author and twitter goddess with a website full of useful insight and resources. https: //www. douglaswise. co. uk/remote-learning/ A treasure trove of useful stuff, some amended for online learning, and a list of youtube videos. Stuart Pryke @SPryke 2 A superstar in the twittersphere with a dropbox full of beautifully made goodies. 6

The best of the week. Elisabeth Bowling @elucymay Short story challenge Elena Russell @Miss. Russell 11 Weekly what to watch/read/listen to resource, plus much more https: //twitter. com/Mr. Alderson. Teach/status/1243092814092800001? s= 20. A list of freebies available during school closure. 7

English and Media Centre 8

GCSE (9 -1) English Language ideas and resources of the week

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Summarise the article in 3 sentences FIND : 1. An example of the writer using humour. 2. Two examples of colloquial language. 3. An example of the writer mocking people who eat on planes. 4. An example of the writer insulting people who eat on planes. 5. A link between the opening and the ending of the extract. 6. A link between the writer’s perspective and the structure of the extract. Brace yourselves for the next sentence, because you may find it distressing. On a recent British Airways flight to Fuerteventura from the UK not all of the passengers were able to stuff their faces with food. Yes, utterly horrifying, but we mustn’t shy away from difficult subjects. The same fate reportedly befell some poor souls on a flight back from Innsbruck. On both occasions the airline had stocked insufficient sandwiches. “It’s bad enough for us adults who were hungry, tired and miserable, ” complained one woman about the Fuerteventura flight, “but our 11 -year-old daughter was in tears because she was so hungry. ” All that was on offer was “a couple of packets of biscuits and nuts”, she said, adding: “How do you put hundreds of people in the air and then deliberately deny them food and drink for four hours-plus? ” Well, hasn’t that put Syria’s problems into perspective? No one wants a child to be upset, but I’d ask a different question. Why the hell can’t people cope for a few hours any more without eating? Why, on a shortish flight, can’t they just bloody wait? Must they graze like goats through every experience, chowing and gulping on trains and planes, in theatres and cinemas — even while doing their supermarket shop? Really, mate, you need to chomp on that triangular sandwich you pulled off the shelf right now…? It couldn’t wait ten chuffing minutes until you got to your car? Reduce the writer’s perspective to: Nine words Six Three Crunch the article – find the nine juiciest words

Picture stories – make a storyboard, then write the story.

Projects Create a dream island or planet that would appeal to teenagers § write the brochure for it § review it § write a travel article about it § make a model of it Invent a new revision product for home schooled teenagers Ø write the sales pitch for it Ø review it Ø write a newspaper article about it Ø make a model of it Design a new school • write a report explaining why it is necessary • be a potential student and apply to go to the school • write a newspaper article about it • make a model of it Launch an exercise regime for lazy teenagers ü create a persona to be the figure head ü write the text for the website ü make a mock-up of the website ü write a celebrity review of it 13

Any ideas to share? If you send them to us at: thefullenglish@pearson. com We will make them available to all who have signed up today. Any requests for next time? 14

GCSE (9 -1) English Literature ideas and resources of the week

Describe Lady Macbeth in: Summarise the scene in 3 sentences LADY MACBETH O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear; Six adjectives: This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts, Impostors to true fear, would well become A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces? When all’s done, You look but on a stool. MACBETH Three Prithee, see there! Behold, look, lo! How say you? [To Ghost] Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites [Exit Ghost of Banquo] FIND : 1. Something that suggests that LM thinks Macbeth is weak. 2. Something that suggests LM thinks Macbeth is unmanly. 3. Sentence structure that suggest Macbeth is losing his mind. Crunch the scene – find the nine juiciest words

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Projects Make a model of: • your favourite poem • your favourite author • a scene from your 19 C text • a setting from any of the Lit GCSE texts you have studied. Arrange a dinner party for six of the authors you have studied for Lit GCSE and write the invitations. • what would they eat? • who would be on the playlist? • what décor for the venue? [create a mood board or draw it] • what would they discuss? Write an alternative ending for: • a poem • your post-1914 text • your 19 th C text • your Shakespeare play Re-write one of the poems in your cluster as: • a short story • a newspaper article • a different form of poem • a mini-saga • a charity facebook page 19

If your character was a biscuit, which biscuit would they be, and why? Scrooge Marley Bob Cratchit Tiny Tim Fezziwig Fred 20

Any ideas to share? If you send them to us at: thefullenglish@pearson. com we will make them available to all who have signed up today. 21

Further dates & ideas 23 rd and 30 th April 2020 Any suggestions now? 22

GCSE (9 -1) English What more can we do to help?

Coming soon! • Home learning scheme of work for Jekyll and Hyde. • Powerpoint lessons for Jekyll & Hyde, An Inspector Calls, A Christmas Carol and Poetry, with commentary for how to answer an exam question. • New Scheme of Work for ‘Coram Boy’ – ideal for Year 9 upwards. 24

Teacher research hub If anyone is interested, please email pamela. mcloughlin@pearson. com 25

GCSE English Literature 1 ET 0 Introducing four new texts and a new poetry collection First teaching: September 2019 First assessment: May 2021 26

Secondary resources Sign-up for Secondary resources form is here: https: //www. pearson. com/uk/educators/schools/update-forschools/secondary-support. html This gives access to: • • • KS 3 Skills for Writing Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9– 1) English Language Text Anthology Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9– 1) English Language Core Student Book – coming soon! Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9– 1) English Language Revision Guide AQA GCSE (9– 1) English Language Revision Guide. 27

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Active Learn Suite Contains full anthology of poems, lesson plans and recordings. 29

Active Learn Suite Contains Let’s Think in English resources and lesson plans Plus: • Grammar for Writing • Anthology of texts • Exam-style assessments 30

2020 Diversity Conference Save the date! Friday 2 nd October, Friends House, Euston, London Confirmed speaker: Lemn Sissay 31

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