Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

It is that annual time of year where I teach Question 3, the structure question, to students. The more I teach this question, the more I thi...

I make no bones about it but I cannot stand ‘Freytag’s Pyramid ’ for story writing. In fact, I loathe its very existence. It warps stories b...

We are on that last big push for the final exams. We have taught the set texts and we are practising and practising for the exams. At th...

PART 1 is here Warning: This blog contains spoilers for ‘The Walking Dead’. Writers lie, steal, trick and surprise you. If there ...