Mr_Gradgrind @MrGradgrind
Award-winning English Teacher. Hoping to cut down on teachers' workload with quality resources (primary & secondary) for schools: https://t.co/kxJvD7MHWr… Joined September 2019-
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Vale Martin Amis 1949-2023 Son of Oxford and Kingsley Amis. Graduate of Oxford University. Booker-shortlisted author of era-defining novels, including Money, London Fields and Time's Arrow.
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Nobody could riff like Martin Amis (from London Fields):
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What did Jay-Z call his wife before they got married? Feyonce.
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Shakespeare didn't invent his own stories and characters; he borrowed them. Here's the source material for all 38 of his plays, in alphabetical order:
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FRANKENSTEIN IS ACTUALLY THE DOCTOR, NOT THE MONSTER, EXCEPT HE'S NOT EVEN A DOCTOR AND THE FACT THAT HE REJECTS HIS CREATURE MEANS HE *IS* A MONSTER BUT THE CREATURE BEING VICTOR'S SON MEANS HE'D TAKE HIS FATHER'S NAME SO THE CREATURE IS ALSO TECHNICALLY NAMED FRANKENST—
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At BookTrust, we are all devastated to hear about the death of Raymond Briggs. Raymond - the author and illustrator of The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and so many other wonderful books - won our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He will live on in his stunning, iconic books.
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Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88 theguardian.com/books/2022/aug…
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35 of the Best Children’s Books from the ’80s and ’90s | via Teaching Expertise pwne.ws/3BwAkVb
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The Booker Prize guide to... dystopian fiction. Looking for your next dystopian fiction read? Or is it a genre that you've not delved into before? Find out all you need to know👇 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…
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I know it's a long shot but does anyone know what a trebuchet is?
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imagine your roommate eats the plums you were saving for breakfast and then writes a bitchy little poem talking about how good they were. and then it becomes one of the most famous poems of all time
@FunkyPedagogy Jean Anouilh’s Antigone works well with KS3.
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Looking for 19th-century essays? Here's Charles Dickens' first writing about Christmas, advising readers to count their blessings and 'dwell not upon the past'. bl.uk/collection-ite… Find a whole host of essays on #DiscoveringLiterature: bl.uk/romantics-and-…
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Which were Shakespeare's best plays? Votes and explanations from 3 very respected Shakespeare scholars: fivebooks.com/books/shakespe…
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Contemporary Dutch illustrator Lieke van der Vorst #WomensArt
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now that’s a headline
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Joan Didion, American journalist and author, dies at age 87 theguardian.com/books/2021/dec…
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