Simple starters and plenaries for the new academic year Friday, August 16, 2013 PrintEmailTweet This!Save to Favorites I thought it might be useful to collate a few simple starters and plenaries in readiness for the new academic year. With the move to linear, engaging and motivating students takes on a whole new level of importance in helping ensure they get it right first time. Rub ‘N’ Reveal - Bellwork/ Starter/Main/ Plenary Starter Activity - I’m the Question Starter / Finisher - Lesson Summary Square Starter & Revision Activity - Consider All Possibilities (C.A.P) Starter Activity: What Why Depends - Developing Thinking Skills Prediction - A plenary and a starter Whats in a name? Bellwork Activity - Equation Starter Activity - Set Your Students the 15 Word Challenge Topic Tennis i-Teach Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" Business Studies Revision / Exam Coaching Workshops Coming Up: GCSE Business (AQA Unit 2 & Edexcel Unit 3) Thursday 24 April 2014 - Birmingham Friday 25 April 2014 - London (Stratford City)
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The Starter Generator! Mark II The Quick 10: 10 Ways Shakespeare Changed Everything In honor of William Shakespeare’s birthday tomorrow, we’ve teamed up with Uncommon Goods to create a printable party kit to celebrate the Bard! (Oh, and we're reposting some of our favorite Shakespeare stories to get you in the mood.) The basic thesis of Stephen Marche’s How Shakespeare Changed Everything becomes obvious very early on (as in, it is expressed in the title). According to this fun, lyrically written and well-researched book, here are just ten of the many ways that Shakespeare changed everything: 1. He gave us a lot of new words Just say some words real quick and you’ll probably say one he coined – nearly 10% of his 20,000-word vocabulary was new to his audiences. 2. 3. His statue in Central Park is covered in pigeon droppings, and strangely it's kind of his fault. In March of 1860, Schieffelin released a mere sixty starlings into the Central Park air as a part of his effort to introduce every bird mentioned in Shakespeare to North America. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Big time. 10.
Cracking Shakespeare's Catholic Code: An interview with Clare Asquith, by Debra Murphy [Editor's Note: Read Clare Asquith's article on the story behind Shadowplay, .] In recent decades the "personal is political" lit crit crowd has read William Shakespeare as everything from Transgressive and Queer to an apologist for Colonialism; from Puritan to Atheist, from regicide to monarchist, from philo-Semite to anti-Semite to Semite. Everyone, it seems, has joined in the "Shakespeare-and-us" game. But in spite of mounting evidence that Shakespeare was actually Catholic, or at least raised that way in a time when owning a rosary could land a subject of Queen Elizabeth in the Tower, few scholars have argued for a layer of dissident Catholic subtext in Shakespeare's staggering wealth of meaning. Until now. We recently spoke with Clare Asquith, author of the controversial new book Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare, about her ground-breaking work, and the reaction to it here and in England. In America it's rather different. Yes. Well, exactly.
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