11th Hour Notes: Last Minute Prompts for tomorrow’s Literature Exam (AQA i-GCSE)

This post is intended for my group of year 11s, who are tomorrow sitting the AQA i-GCSE English Literature examination, and need to answer questions on an unseen poem and Sheriff’s play, Journey’s End. If you’re not one of them, but you’re reading: welcome, and I hope this will help you, too! These notes cannot…

The Quest for Identity: Overthinking ‘Stick Man’

One of the joys of parenthood is coming back into contact with children’s books, and we are slowly building a collection of stories by Julia Donaldson. Having now devoured the Gruffalo (upon which I have already written a post, viewable here) umpteen times, we are just now in a ‘Stick Man’ phase. And it’s got…