The following resource is an edited version (with the author's permission) of a wonderful on-line article by Paul Armstrong - An analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby through a consideration of two Italian translations. Paul’s brilliant analysis of Fitzgerald’s language has been organised into short, manageable sections for pupils and teachers. A white board could be used to display and share.

This resource is a scaffold for creative writing at KS3/4. Using the images, pupils can work on character, setting, voice, story... The opening and closing lines come from Robert Frost’s poem Out, out –. The stills come from James Mangold’s film, Walk the Line. I then like to upload the document to Google docs, sharing with pupils, before setting them tasks (in groups or pairs) to work on different aspects of the story simultaneously. A social constructivist approach to storytelling, if you will! If you want to play the clip from Mangold’s film, it’s the second episode in the DVD.

Presentation analysing the poem. Parts are annotated, other sections are left to teacher and pupil to analyse in class. If you think it could be improved, do please leave me a message. It is best viewed in full-screen mode. Hovering your mouse over the lower section of the Prezi will reveal how ...

This is a Prezi for 'Limbo' by Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Some of it is annotated, other sections are left to teacher and pupil to analyse in class! If you think it could be improved, do please leave me a message. It is best viewed in full-screen mode. Hovering your mouse over the lower section of the Prezi will reveal how ...

This is a Prezi analysing 'Island Man' by Grace Nichols. Some of it is annotated, other sections are left to teacher and pupil analyse in class! If you think it could be improved, do please leave me a message. It is best viewed in full-screen mode. Hovering your mouse over the lower section of the Prezi will reveal how ...

Prezi presentation of the poem 'Night of the Scorpion' by Nissim Ezekiel. Some of it is annotated, other sections are left to teacher and pupil to analyse in class! If you think it could be improved, do please leave me a message. It is best viewed in full-screen mode. Hovering your mouse over the lower section of the Prezi will reveal how ...

These Prezis were created for the Poetry From Other Cultures section of the GCSE syllabus. Some sections of the poems are annotated, while other sections are left to teacher and pupil to analyse in class! If you think they could be improved, do please leave me a message. They are best viewed in full-screen mode. Hovering your mouse over the lower section of the Prezi will reveal how ...

This video is a filmed interpretation of Vernon Scannell's poem, A Case of Murder. The children who made the film at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow, made much of Scannell's imagery and themes. The art work and the use of green screen technology was all the pupils' work. I feel it could be a useful resource for teachers studying the poem with their classes There are additional resources - storyboards, the poem itself, a shot list - that will hopefully be useful if you are teaching the text.