Sometimes we have no option but to help students engage with difficult or particularly challenging texts. One such text is Simon Armitage’s haunting poem ‘November‘ and it was the topic for my Year 10 class today.
I began by asking students to associate words or ideas with months of the year. February might associate in some [...]
Filed under: Poetry, Reading, Resources, Teaching English | Tagged: Armitage | 2 Comments »
My poor friends. What they have to put up with! Over the last two days I have been pushing a microphone in their faces and saying, “Read this.” Ok, I haven’t been quite that rude. I’ll explain.
In a few weeks, I am taking 45 Year 11 students to Eyam, a village in Derbyshire, for a [...]
Filed under: Education, Poetry, Teaching, Teaching English | Tagged: Armitage | 4 Comments »
Do you teach the poems of Simon Armitage? If so, which poem is this?
Puzzled? The poem is Simon Armitage’s “I’ve made out a will…” which students on the AQA GCSE study as an examination text. For the full text, click below:
I’ve made out a will… – poem by Simon Armitage.
Here I’ve made a reading of [...]
Filed under: Education, Poetry, Teaching, Teaching English | Tagged: Armitage | Leave a Comment »
