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Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...writing of history...Changing places and re-telling stories: Battle of Thermopylae In this introductory activity, we suggest you take a look at the Hestia project map to try to understand more about how we can interpret the importance of the geography and topography at Thermopylae, site of a significant battle during the Greek and Persian Wars. This is particularly...
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Activity 5 mins
How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...writing. So how about emoji? Is the same thing likely to happen with them? At the moment the evidence is slight. But there are indications that it’s beginning, at least in certain contexts. Unlike alphabetic writing systems, which allow an infinite number of words to be written from finite means (the 26 letters of the English alphabet, for example), there are a limited...
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Article 20 mins
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...writing activity than one might typically expect if at a school, instead using more conversation and practical based learning with an emphasis on past papers, which helped them learn, analyse and understand exam technique, marking and timings. This more relaxed or informal approach was part of the reason that the system that replaced exams with TAG in 2021 did not work...
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Article 5 mins
The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...writing at a table on a writing-slope. This image does identify Austen as a writer, but in distinctly amateur and even secretive mode; her face is averted, her shoulder turned to the viewer, and her arm cast protectively across her work. There is, in short, something unusually shifty about this depiction of a writer, and it is confirmed by the image of the house to the...
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Article 10 mins
Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...write ghost stories. Mary’s effort, Frankenstein, was penned at a time when scientists were investigating the possibility of using electrical power to regenerate corpses. Her novel concerned Victor Frankenstein’s attempt to re-animate a dead body, and the dreadful consequences of his actions. Her own life was fast becoming a nightmare: Fanny Imlay committed suicide;...
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Article 10 mins
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...writing in English Children’s literature is a vast and growing area of academic study. Interdisciplinary in nature, the field draws on theories, methods and applications from language, literature and childhood studies. While an academic domain in its own right, the study of children’s literature generally has a personal connection for individuals, hooking into our own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...Write down similar words to your key phrases. Use a thesaurus! (4) Use ‘and’ and ‘or’ functions. (5) Use advanced search options. Ann’s summary Transcript But how do you come up with those all-important keywords? Devyani, who is a PhD student in AstrobiologyOU, gave me a few thoughts. As a PhD student, she’s just been through this process herself. She...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...writing to use words in a precise and careful way. So it is important to be able to recognise and understand important terms when you come across them. Note any terms in the definition that you feel are especially important to its meaning. Discussion I noted four terms that seemed to be particularly important: ‘scientific’, ‘organisms’, ‘interrelationships’...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs