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By Jonathan Peel

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King Lear and the Apocalypse

English Teaching ResourcesMar 02, 2021

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14:09

Jekyll and Hyde: how strange.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2021/11/17/jekyll-and-hyde-how-strange/

Nov 24, 202108:38

Surely we are all Arthur Birling? A discussion piece

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2021/10/06/surely-we-are-all-arthur-birling-a-discussion-piece/

Nov 24, 202105:15

Considering setting in an essay.

A discussion of the use of setting in literature with reference to several texts: Macbeth, OMAM, The Awakening, Snow falling on cedars, Wide Sargasso and others.

Apr 23, 202116:15

Night: Alice Munro, thoughts on family – not a model answer.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2018/10/31/night-alice-munro-thoughts-on-family-not-a-model-answer/

Apr 13, 202109:24

Thoughts on Significant Cigarettes: Rose Tremain

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2018/11/02/thoughts-on-significant-cigarettes-rose-tremain/

Apr 13, 202109:59

Planning with SCASI: La Belle Dame

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2019/01/31/planning-with-scasi-la-belle-dame/

Apr 13, 202121:15

Planning for the ‘development of Lev’ in Significant Cigarettes (Rose Tremain).

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/02/02/planing-for-the-development-of-lev-in-significant-cigarettes/

Apr 06, 202108:37

Night: Alice Munro. Notes on delivery and content.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/02/03/night-alice-munro-notes-on-delivery-and-content/

Apr 06, 202113:08

Teaching OMAM: Curley's wife - Steinbeck and the feminine.

https://jwpblog.com/2020/09/17/steinbecks-letter-to-miss-luce/

https://jwpblog.com/2018/10/11/to-know-curleys-wife-lecture-2018/

Mar 26, 202124:39

On Macbeth: Equivocation

A discussion of Equivocation in Macbeth.

Mar 22, 202111:14

On Macbeth - the Porter

On the Porter scene and linking to the English Gothic.

Mar 22, 202108:06

Teaching Poetry: The Bright Lights of Sarajevo - Harrison – a SCASI reading.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2018/11/01/the-bright-lights-of-sarajevo-a-scasi-reading/

Mar 19, 202111:51

Teaching Poetry: War Photographer, Duffy. An analysis

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2018/11/01/war-photographer-duffy-an-analysis/

Mar 19, 202108:06

Teaching Poetry: Remains - Simon Armitage

This podcast can be found in written form on my blog: https://jwpblog.com/2021/03/18/remains-simon-armitage/

Mar 18, 202109:19

Teaching OMAM: Steinbeck’s Letter to Miss Luce

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/09/17/steinbecks-letter-to-miss-luce/

Mar 17, 202106:33

Teaching OMAM: Crooks - it’s complicated.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/06/08/crooks-its-complicated/

Mar 17, 202111:26

Teaching AIC: Arthur Birling - fit for purpose?

A discussion of authorial intention.

https://jwpblog.com/2021/03/11/arthur-birling-fit-for-purpose/

Mar 11, 202125:38

Exploring Poetry: Mother, any distance: Armitage

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/10/20/mother-any-distance-armitage/

Mar 10, 202106:15

Exploring poetry: John Rice – ‘Careful with that…’

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/11/11/igcse-unseen-poem-support-john-rice-careful-with-that/

Mar 10, 202109:10

Exploring poetry: Long Distance II. Tony Harrison.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/12/02/unseen-for-edexcel-igcse-practice-long-distance-ii-tony-harrison/

Mar 10, 202106:57

Teaching Huckleberry Finn: Huck and the Picaresque tales

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/10/14/huck-and-the-picaresque-tales/

Mar 02, 202114:15

King Lear and the Apocalypse

This can also be found on my blog: https://jwpblog.com/2016/01/17/shakespeare-and-the-apocalypse-initial-thoughts/

Mar 02, 202114:09

Reading Huckleberry Finn. The ending: Pioneer oppressor or lover of the land and freedom? Huck: a Native American?

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/11/05/the-ending-of-huckleberry-finn-pioneer-oppressor-or-lover-of-the-land-and-freedom-huck-a-native-american/

Mar 02, 202109:19

Reading Poetry: Tissue, Dharker, for GCSE

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2019/01/17/tissue-dharker-for-gcse/

Mar 02, 202110:44

Teaching Gatsby: The Othering of Gatsby.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2020/02/26/the-othering-of-gatsby/

Feb 25, 202111:22

Teaching Gatsby: An African American issue

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2018/07/24/gatsby-an-african-american-issue/

Feb 25, 202112:33

AIC: Teaching and Stimuli: Eric, rape and authorial intention.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2018/04/23/eric-rape-and-authorial-intention/

Feb 25, 202108:26

AIC thoughts and stimuli: Gerald Croft, the original cad

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2018/09/26/considering-gerald-croft-the-original-cad/

Feb 25, 202105:06

Teaching Heaney: Follower: thoughts on metre and language

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2019/07/24/follower-heaney-thoughts-on-metre-and-language/

Feb 25, 202108:58

Teaching Heaney: Exploring Blackberry Picking.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2019/07/18/exploring-blackberry-picking-heaney-an-essay/

Feb 25, 202109:25

Teaching Heaney: On Personal Helicon.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2019/07/18/on-personal-helicon-heaney/

Feb 25, 202107:28

Teaching Heaney: Digging and the search for the good turf.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2019/07/19/heaney-digging-and-the-search-for-the-good-turf/

Feb 25, 202109:53

Teaching Heaney: Churning Day: Heaney. An analysis.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2019/07/18/churning-day-heaney-an-analysis/

Feb 24, 202109:18

Teaching Heaney: Death of a Naturalist: a study in innocence.

This episode is also available as a blog post: jwpblog.com/2019/07/19/death-of-a-naturalist-a-study-in-innocence/

Feb 24, 202108:06

Teaching Heaney: Heaney and the famine

A discussion of Potato Digging and 'Eliza' - the two poems in Death of a Naturalist which focus attention on the famine and the behaviour of the British along with the immensity of the suffering of the Irish people.

Feb 24, 202122:56

Teaching Heaney: Storm on the Island

A discussion of Heaney's poem and its place within the Anthology Death of a Naturalist.

Feb 24, 202110:58