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Director of English for a Multi Academy Trust

Joined August 2021
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Love this: 'An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction ...': tinyurl.com/mryyf86d
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“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” — Ernest Hemingway
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“Perfection is insane. The entire tyranny of the perfect body, the perfect family, the perfect life is literally a commercial narrative. It has nothing to do with being human.” — Guillermo del Toro
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Some people are only as happy as their library. "I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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will there ever be a time when I will stop encountering unfamiliar words in books in english as a non-native speaker...probably not.
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there was something beautiful about library checkout cards because you could literally see the history of human curiosity attached to a book. like a tiny ghost trail of strangers connected by the same story.
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Snow was general all over Stroud. It was falling upon the Tesco Express from its toilet seats and, further westwards, falling into its car park. It was falling too upon the chained trolleys. It lay drifted upon the dashboard of James Joyce's BMW . . .
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Henry James did not use ChatGPT to write this beautiful sentence, replete with glorious em dashes.
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A poem by Seamus Heaney, which he wrote while recovering from a stroke.
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*NEW* for June 26 ✅ The Hunger Games Lang P1 AQA style practice exam paper, like so 👇Help yourself #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qgdcn2…
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Writer's Toolkit - Dickens - A Christmas Carol - Methods and devices for higher conceptual thinking! #ACC #engchat #teamenglish #gcseliterature #achristmascarol
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Practice any art. Not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming. To make your soul grow.
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A clever poem that takes a look at the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth @INOTEnews
This is fascinating. Such a clever poem about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. tumblr.com/two-bees-poetry/7…
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A set of tasks to help students craft single sentences on A Christmas Carol douglaswise.co.uk/blog/craft… ❄️
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🚨 NEW LANG P1 PACK - FREE 8 AQA Papers modified for the new specification - but formatted the same as how the papers will look. Here > laurawebbcpd.com/resources/#… Hope it's useful.
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Iron Giant done in ink, wash and pastel!
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