Jonathan Peel
mrpeelrtd.bsky.social
Jonathan Peel
@mrpeelrtd.bsky.social
Retired English teacher
Retired SLT
Former Opera Singer
Lover of walking, Mahler, pies and sundry other things.
Blogs on English teaching and paedagogy. Left twitter in frustration.
I’m clearing my mums house, if anyone loves a dolls house, there will be some things appearing soon… www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35646730...
dolls house room box diorama | eBay
A 1:12 scale room box 55x25x32 of a Tudor kitchen diorama. All miniatures are hand made and wood or clay. Many made by Sue Peel Miniatures. Can be packed for collection by buyer with some notice.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My blog looks a bit odd now m not paying for the whizzy stuff and seems to have lost its Search button, still this series of video textual analysis of Macbeth still seem to work
#macbeth #closeanalysis #snowday
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Drop into Macbeth 5.1
The sleepwalking scene – an extended introduction. Articles about LM: Finding the “fiend-like queen”. The Fiend-Like Queen and her descendants Discussing the ‘fiend like Queen’ -Voice and ppt…
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November 27, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Evening all , been a while…
Just done a mock Oxbridge interview for a very impressive student .
Lovely to be reminded of the passion and excitement of a strong U6 student.
Been retired for so long, I’d forgotten…
#olddog
November 27, 2024 at 6:45 PM
I made a point of writing unseen responses in the same time and conditions as my students- this post remains one of the most visited jwpblog.com/2022/03/11/a...
A London thoroughfare. 2AM. Unseen poem
A model response to a poem which has been used by AQA as a GCSE unseen. Written under timed conditions. The question: How does the poet present the speaker's feelings about the city at night? This poe...
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September 3, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Excellent post- there are no short cuts for quality teaching
August 30, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Peel
My first post! I’m bringing across the Dropbox should anyone like to use any resources in here! They need a bit of tweaking now but might act as a good starting point: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/rize2...
Dropbox
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August 12, 2024 at 10:52 AM
If anyone has the chance to see #Oliver! at #chichesterfestivaltheatre before term starts, Go! It is magnificent.
August 27, 2024 at 5:22 PM
As the blog bears the end of its premium features- another blast from the past.
1: this for #litdrive

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What is so great about Gatsby?
My presentation for #litdrivecpd can be found here: https://litdrive.org.uk/remotecpd/what-is-so-great-about-gatsby I hope it is useful.
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August 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Favourite blog posts in no order: the intertextuality of Gatsby and Puccini… you can take the man out of the opera house…

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Gatsby and Butterfly: Intertextual musings.
In Gatsby, in chapter 3 Nick and Jordan explore the Gatsby mansion and meet owl eyes who exclaims : 'the fella's a regular Belasco'. The reference to Belasco is clear - a stage producer and designer a...
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August 25, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Another 10 blog posts- 6 days to go…
1: context of creation of AIC lecture

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Priestley, politics and AIC – a talking head
This is a suggestion of a colleague - Caroline Spalding - for a series of talking head lectures to contextualise various texts taught at GCSE/IGCSE. My effort looks at JB Priestley and his 'very Engli...
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August 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Dip into this thread if you’ve a moment- my next ‘top 10 blogs’… 8 days to go
As a distraction from results, another dose of 10 fav posts from my blog. The premium features will drop off at the end of the month, unless someone wants to take it over and take it forward… www.jwpblog.com
August 22, 2024 at 5:37 PM
As a distraction from results, another dose of 10 fav posts from my blog. The premium features will drop off at the end of the month, unless someone wants to take it over and take it forward… www.jwpblog.com
August 22, 2024 at 11:03 AM
On this results day in 2014 I left one school and moved on. This was my last blog post to my y11s

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Hope it chimes a chord!
An open letter to 11EX2. On results’ day 2014
Dear all, Well, that's that! The results are in and although I have left for pastures new, I wanted to share my thoughts with you on this momentous day. I am incredibly proud of all of you! You should...
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August 21, 2024 at 5:42 PM
My blog top10 day 1… 9 days to go.

1: jwpblog.com?s=Drop+into+...
These videos will not be available once we lose the premium but they are on Loom… whole play annotated and discussed with visualiser
Search Results for “Drop into Macbeth” – English Teaching Resources
A site to share my resources for secondary English teaching.
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August 21, 2024 at 4:37 PM
#edusky do your magic here.
I’d love to know this has gone to a good home.
Serious question. I am stopping my blog curation at the end of the month. It will exist but lose the premium features like videos which aren’t supported.

If anyone would like to take over ‘ownership’ and make it fit for another 15 years and another 2 million+ views, www.jwpblog.com
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English Teaching Resources
A site to share my resources for secondary English teaching.
www.jwpblog.com
August 21, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Serious question. I am stopping my blog curation at the end of the month. It will exist but lose the premium features like videos which aren’t supported.

If anyone would like to take over ‘ownership’ and make it fit for another 15 years and another 2 million+ views, www.jwpblog.com
DM ME
English Teaching Resources
A site to share my resources for secondary English teaching.
www.jwpblog.com
August 21, 2024 at 9:19 AM
I love exploring the musical effects of meter in poetry… in this blog post I look at Heaney… others follow.

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Follower, Heaney: thoughts on metre and language
Follower -note the lack of an article suggesting the whole range of potential meanings and sub-meanings to the word. Heaney is writing literally of a boy who followed his father around the fields and ...
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August 20, 2024 at 7:43 PM
I’ve been a bit quiet - we had my son’s wedding over the weekend… definitely not edu.
August 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Does anyone have a copy of the bicycle of pedagogic approaches? Was it @drchendrick.bsky.social who created that gem.
August 19, 2024 at 5:29 PM
A blogging memory- I enjoyed this one and, as usual, blogging helped me to focus my thought processes…

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The Porter provides humour but he is far from funny…
Act II.iii of Macbeth is a source of discussion at all levels. To some the base humour of the scene and its jarring of tone suggest an interpolation; to others it is light relief to diffuse tension. T...
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August 19, 2024 at 5:12 PM