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  1. "David Oyelowo was only two years out of acting school and playing minor parts at the RSC when he was approached to play the lead in Henry VI. Written with an engaging honesty on the pitfalls and joys of getting and playing such a wonderful part, Oyelowo charts the journey..." #Shakespeare #TeamEnglish

  2. Robert Graves: Antigua, Penny, Puce (1936), ed. Ian McCormick. Philip Larkin praised it as 'unique among novels' for 'its variety of original invention, not to mention its humour'. #TeamEnglish #novels #fiction
    amazon.co.uk/Antigua-Penny-Puc

  3. "There is a serious danger in the class-room, with text books open before us, of our forgetting what #drama really means." (1908) SEE: The English Association, The Teaching of English in Schools (Leaflet No. 7, 1908), p. 7. #Shakespeare #TeamEnglish #EngChat

  4. Nonfiction for Young Adults: forty of the most esteemed contemporary and classic nonfiction texts. Many of these books have won numerous awards and are deemed suitable for young adults. After the short author/title list you will find further information on each book, such as plot summaries and short reviews. Enjoy!
    #books #reading #bookstodon #literacy #education #TeamEnglish #EngChat
    academia.edu/49455045/Nonficti

  5. "Ring in the love of truth and right,
    Ring in the common love of good.

    Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
    Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
    Ring out the thousand wars of old,
    Ring in the thousand years of peace."

    ---Tennyson.
    #Poetry #TeamEnglish #GeneralElection2024

  6. Danger is “not the advent of superintelligent computers, but of subintelligent human beings.” Hubert Dreyfuss, What Computers Still Can’t Do (1972).
    "Great literature is where the superintelligent human lives, and reading and thinking about it is our buffer against becoming subintelligent human beings." --- Alistair Brown
    #edchat #edtech #TeamEnglish #HigherEd
    linkedin.com/pulse/digital-fut

  7. "Michael Mosley speaks to Dietrich von Bonin from the Swiss Association of Art Therapies, who says as little as 5 minutes of rhythmic #poetry read aloud can be even more effective than slow-paced breathing at relaxing your body and mind." #engchat #TeamEnglish bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001z6pb

  8. "Reading poetry can reduce stress and help give you words to express the things you're feeling. And reading a poem out loud has been shown to be a surprisingly simple way to activate your relaxation response and bring about a sense of calm." #TeamEnglish bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z6pb

  9. "Dr Ellie Rye, a lecturer in English language and linguistics at the University of York, said apostrophes were a relatively new invention in our writing and, often, context allows people to understand their meaning."
    #TeamEnglish #engchat
    theguardian.com/uk-news/articl

  10. "the characters come to life through their interpretations of the events ... there's also an amazing depth to the setting of St Andrews and lots of references to what was happening in the world at that time." #novel #TeamEnglish #satire #fiction #1980s #campus #darkacademia #lightacademia #engchat amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BVCT45DX