by Carolyn | Aug 8, 2017 | English, Literature, Reading, Teaching
Imagine all the students in your English class arrived each day having read the novels, plays, poetry or short stories that they were working on. Imagine not being frustrated because the lesson you so carefully prepared didn’t work because the students hadn’t done the...
by Carolyn | Jul 25, 2016 | English, Literature, Teaching
Nothing is more surely designed to drown any flickering student interest in a book than chapter questions. Honestly, if there is a good reason why we still do this it is beyond my comprehension. And this is the point isn’t it? Comprehension. I have always loved to...
by Carolyn | Jun 21, 2016 | English, Literature, Teaching
When it comes to text books for many subjects, hire-book schemes can be really helpful. Many of these books are expensive to buy and as they are used year after year it makes sense to ensure that all students have access. However I think they are deadly for English...
by Carolyn | Feb 20, 2016 | Literature, Teaching
I was reading Frederick Buechner this morning and he was talking about Art. All Art, not just the visual. As an author, he was talking most about literature and its ability to take a simple event or action and frame it in such a way that we actually notice it. The...
