Wednesday, 28 April 2021

My 'secret strings' game to unlock 'texts' (stories, poems, plays, non-fiction etc)

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  You tell the children/students that they are going to be poem or story 'detectives' and their job is find the 'secret strings...
Saturday, 24 April 2021

What did we know on March 16 2020 about Covid? What was the advice from the WHO?

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WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 16 March 2020 16 March 2020 Good afternoon everyone. In the ...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Phoney localism in the Super League debate

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I am seeing some phoney 'analysis' of power within football. Local fans aren't the 'workers' in football. We are the co...
Sunday, 18 April 2021

Naming names - how the Holocaust happened right the way down to a small village in western France

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  How my father's Uncle was killed: Hitler was the Leader of the Third Reich. Under his command was Heinrich Himmler. Under his command ...
Sunday, 14 March 2021

What did we know by March 14 2020?

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Over the next few months we should expect people in prominent places to tell us things like 'we did all we could', 'nothing else...
Friday, 26 February 2021

What is stylistics? How can it help us interpret a text?

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Stylistics is a broad term to cover the 'how' texts are put together. Into this 'bag' we can put any of the following and ot...

How to think about the structure of stories?

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Stories have structures.  We are used to talking about stories having settings, characters, plots and themes. Slightly to one side of these ...