English Teaching Resources: Recent Episodes
Jonathan Peel
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2021/11/17/jekyll-and-hyde-how-strange/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2021/10/06/surely-we-are-all-arthur-birling-a-discussion-piece/
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.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2018/10/31/night-alice-munro-thoughts-on-family-not-a-model-answer/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2018/11/02/thoughts-on-significant-cigarettes-rose-tremain/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2019/01/31/planning-with-scasi-la-belle-dame/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/02/02/planing-for-the-development-of-lev-in-significant-cigarettes/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/02/03/night-alice-munro-notes-on-delivery-and-content/
https://jwpblog.com/2020/09/17/steinbecks-letter-to-miss-luce/
https://jwpblog.com/2018/10/11/to-know-curleys-wife-lecture-2018/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2018/11/01/the-bright-lights-of-sarajevo-a-scasi-reading/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2018/11/01/war-photographer-duffy-an-analysis/
This podcast can be found in written form on my blog: https://jwpblog.com/2021/03/18/remains-simon-armitage/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/09/17/steinbecks-letter-to-miss-luce/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/06/08/crooks-its-complicated/
A discussion of authorial intention.
https://jwpblog.com/2021/03/11/arthur-birling-fit-for-purpose/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/10/20/mother-any-distance-armitage/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/11/11/igcse-unseen-poem-support-john-rice-careful-with-that/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/12/02/unseen-for-edexcel-igcse-practice-long-distance-ii-tony-harrison/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/10/14/huck-and-the-picaresque-tales/
This can also be found on my blog: https://jwpblog.com/2016/01/17/shakespeare-and-the-apocalypse-initial-thoughts/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/11/05/the-ending-of-huckleberry-finn-pioneer-oppressor-or-lover-of-the-land-and-freedom-huck-a-native-american/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2019/01/17/tissue-dharker-for-gcse/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2020/02/26/the-othering-of-gatsby/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2018/07/24/gatsby-an-african-american-issue/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2018/04/23/eric-rape-and-authorial-intention/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2018/09/26/considering-gerald-croft-the-original-cad/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2019/07/24/follower-heaney-thoughts-on-metre-and-language/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2019/07/18/exploring-blackberry-picking-heaney-an-essay/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2019/07/18/on-personal-helicon-heaney/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2019/07/19/heaney-digging-and-the-search-for-the-good-turf/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2019/07/18/churning-day-heaney-an-analysis/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://jwpblog.com/2019/07/19/death-of-a-naturalist-a-study-in-innocence/
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.
A discussion of Heaney's poem and its place within the Anthology Death of a Naturalist.