Weekly Reading II
Weekly Reading II
Weekly Reading II
These were articles that caught my eye each week and which I used with GCSE students to build familiarity with non-fiction texts, especially in teaching writing to persuade.
I stopped adding articles when I finished my job as headteacher/English teacher in March 2017. But I hope you’ll find this and the earlier archive useful for class discussion, debate, and in teaching writing.
2016-17:
8 September, 2016
Don’t blame headteachers for uniform - it’s lazy parents
Rosie Millard, Independent
20 September, 2016
Our cars are choked. We are on the brink of carmaggedon
George Monbiot, Guardian
26 September, 2016
‘Mouse droppings everywhere’: A day in the life of a food inspector
Kate Lyons, Guardian
30 September, 2016
PowerPoint is a disaster for teaching
Mike Stuchberry, Times Educational Supplement
3 October, 2016
How to eat breakfast cereal correctly
Susan Matthews, Slate
24 October, 2016
Why I wouldn’t airbush my school phtoto
Stuart Heritage, Guardian
5 November, 2016
‘I was so embarrassed I cried’: do parents share too much online?
Paula Cocozza, Guardian
21 November, 2016
What’s the point of school uniform?
Chloe Spencer, Guardian
27 November, 2016
Sharing photos on social media helped explain my skin condition
Holly Dixon, Independent
8 December, 2016
We are to blame for the decline of giraffes
Jules Howard, Guardian
8 December, 2016
Sweden’s recycing is so revolutionary, they have run out of rubbish
Hazel Sheffield, Independent
31 December, 2016
A letter to ... all permissive parents
Anonymous, Guardian
4 January, 2017
‘A phone designed to let you check your messages mid-movie?’
Emine Saner, Guardian
14 January, 2017
Rugby: I love the sense of belonging
Milly Taylor, rugby union player, Guardian
23 January, 2017
There’s no such thing as ‘ethical fur’
Melissa Kite, Spectator
25 January, 2017
Ten ways girls are told they’re inferior
Laura Bates, Guardian
23 January, 2017 (in The Times 2/2/17)
An open letter to my parents who are drug addicts
Chelsea Cameron
6 February, 2017
Various writers, the Guardian
26 February, 2017
Rap music: it’s art at its purest
Harvey Jordan, aged 14, Bury Free Press
15 March, 2017
Throwaway bottles are destroying marine life
Tom Bawden, the i
Monday, 1 May 2017