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Lady Macbeth: character and theme analysis
Explain how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth and how evidence from different parts of the play shows her changing relationship with ambition, power and guilt.
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Teacher of English; House Leader, Tib
Hayley Crompton
Our reading challenge is run with the library, and it has to reach pupils who are not already choosing books for pleasure.
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I teach English and lead Tib house. Our reading challenge is run with the library, and it has to reach pupils who are not already choosing books for pleasure. That makes participation as important a planning question as the points total.
A tracking routine will only help if tutors can keep it current during a busy registration. I look for a simple record that takes seconds to update and still tells us who has joined in. The aim is to make the challenge easier to run across tutor groups, not to create another complicated reporting task.
In English, I want pupils to meet reading as something they can enter from different starting points. A house-wide activity gives us one way to invite participation beyond the students who already identify as readers. I pay attention to whether the format makes that invitation easy to act on.
How I approach a lesson
Keep reading-challenge tracking brief enough for regular tutor updates.
Design participation routes for pupils who do not already read for pleasure.
Work with the library to connect house activity with access to books.
Templates I'd use with my class
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Phra Aphai Mani: characters, story and style
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