Category: For Classroom Use

  • The Secret To Russian Fudge

    How to make Russian Fudge — a step-by-step guide for cooks with no sweet thermometer and no Edmonds Cookbook (which is only of limited help anyway). Googling has so far not helped me out on this one, so while Mum was staying at our place this week I had an extended lesson in how to […]

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  • Writing Activity: Describe A Living Room

    Writing Activity: Describe A Living Room

    As a writing exercise, describe your own living room, or the living room of someone you know. For inspiration, I offer the following examples from literature. EXAMPLE OF A LIVING ROOM DESCRIBED BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER We were all sitting in the long, low room at Farthings, darker than usual because of the rain. The […]

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  • Writing Activity: Describe A Classroom

    Writing Activity: Describe A Classroom

    Describe a classroom is the perfect writing activity for schools. Maybe you’re in a classroom right now. If so, you can write about that. If not, you can imagine any sort of classroom you like. It may be one classroom in particular, or it may be an amalgamation of several, or of all the classrooms you’ve ever set foot in. Or…

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  • How Teaching School Is Different From The Movies

    An English teacher I had at school couldn’t stand that Robin Williams movie, Dead Poet’s Society. The ideal of the enthusiastic teacher jumping about on all the desks, monologuing center stage gave him the sh‌its, I was surprised to learn. Then, when I was at teachers’ college myself, I remember the tutor saying a few times, […]

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  • How To Structure Any (Western-style) Story

    Combining my study of film, novels, children’s literature and lyrical short stories, I’ve come up with a nine part story structure. Other cultures historically carve up stories differently. For instance, East Asian audiences expect different things from story, and also differ in the amount of work they expect to put in. Not all stories are […]

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  • Tuurngait: An award winning short film

    An Inuit child wanders away from his village, fascinated by a wild bird. His father follow his trail, dertermined to find him before he gets lost on the ice floe. 6 minutes) The title of the short film makes us of unusual font. This is reminiscent of the Inuikitut syllabary. QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG VIEWERS Where […]

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  • Picturebook Study: Colour Analysis

    Picturebook Study: Colour Analysis

    Colour is a language.

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  • Is it possible to elicit a love of reading in children?

    Is it possible to elicit a love of reading in children?

    Anyone who sends their kid to piano lessons or any other kind of lesson has probably wondered this: At what point will I allow my kid to give up this pursuit if they’re not enjoying it, or actively resisting? Time Ideas has an interesting article about the science of interest (which I didn’t know was […]

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  • Writing Activity: Describe A Bedroom

    Writing Activity: Describe A Bedroom

    Lectrology, the study of the bed and its surroundings, can be extremely useful and tell you a great deal about the owner, even if it’s only that they are a very knowing and savvy installations artist. Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals A character’s room can contribute to characterisation… Setting is frequently used to symbolize the character’s moods […]

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