Abel Guerrero
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‘Fear of the Dark’: The Owl in Macbeth
Centuries before street-lighting, in a mostly agricultural country, the night-time world was a very different place. It’s easy to see how the ordinary could be turned into myth.
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Pie Charts? In English?
When students get the right feedback, presented in ways they can understand, they can turn their ideas in marks.
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13.06 WB Yeats
Some things are difficult because they are worth wrestling with. Not because someone else has decided they are too complex for you.
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Astronomy in King Lear
If the heavens seem to be against us, should we accept our fate, or challenge it with everything we’ve got?
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12.06 MR James
MR James understood that the whole point of ghost stories is to haunt you as much as the protagonist is haunted …
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28.02 Philip Reeve
Do the individual choices we make count in a society where seemingly the only rule is ‘might is right’?
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Silence In Hamlet
Silence isn’t ‘golden’. It’s unsettling and uncomfortable. Let’s look at how Shakespeare uses it in Hamlet.
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27.02 John Steinbeck
‘Write what you know’? Steinbeck’s protagonists are exactly the type of people he met in California’s agricultural heartlands.
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Celebrations in 1 Henry IV
Humans like structure. Chaos and anarchy have a shelf-life. The upending of norms, hierarchies, is only fun when you know it will end. But WHO ends it? HOW? WHEN? They tell us a lot about what’s gone before.