Next week we’ll be running our B+ to A+ Senior English workshop and discussing practical strategies for improving student writing. One of the basic strategies we’ll be discussing is surface level vs. deeper level analysis. In their essays, students most often say only one thing about any piece of evidence they insert into an essay.…
Coming up over the next few months we have a number of workshops where we’ll be looking at reading strategies: How to teach students to do truly amazing writing in response to Romeo and Juliet VCE English text planning for 2018: An introduction to the Year 12 text list and a guide to choosing Year…
Last week we blogged about our new Romeo and Juliet textbook and how it scaffolds students to read and actually understand the play at a language level, not just a plot level. Apart from its usefulness as a reading resource, our Romeo and Juliet textbook also guides students through how to write on the play.…
At the moment at Ticking Mind we’re working on a student edition of Romeo and Juliet called: Shakespeare’s Tragedy Romeo and Juliet and How To Write A Truly Impressive Essay On It. You can see the cover here: Like our other student textbooks, this one seeks to explicitly break down skills for students and scaffold…