Thanks, Farah. I’ve had a look at Hutchu’s work - looks really interesting.

Thank you! I think I’m sorted.🥰

It’s one thing not wanting to blow your own trumpet, Shona, but don’t go grabbing it off other people when they try to blow it for you!😂

I’ve already snuck in the opening of this in another lesson!😁

Ooh. I came across this on a few lists. It’d be nice to show them things are still being written in Scots, so I might use a snippet as a supplementary text. Sadly many of them even struggle with texts in modern English though. 😕

Thanks everyone for the recommendations. I’ve got a few for my own reading list from this too! It’s a hard balance finding them texts that will prep them for what they’ll face in the exam, but that might also persuade one - even just one! - that reading might give them something Clash Royale can’t.

Last few years ideally. Got plenty of recs, some I haven’t come across, but if you’ve any more I’d happily hear them. Just trying to make sure I look outside the usual stuff. Thanks!

Thanks! I’ll take a look. I think this might resonate with a lot of our students.

I think that was the only time I heard her swear!

It was the scene where M had been kidnapped. She was trying to reach the alarm clock on the stool. The cinema was so tense and so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop.

Then M knocked the clock off the stool and Granny exclaimed “Shit!” then quickly added “Sugar! I meant sugar!”😆

Good question. I’m keeping it tenuous and just making it a Scottish text as a sort of thematic link. In English Language they don’t have to study poetry but we’re hanging each week of lessons on a cultural peg.

Ooh, yes please! Will take a look.

Ooh, good point. I’ll have a look in Charlie Says. They could do with a scare!🤣

Hi Shona! By a Scottish author is my main criteria but set in Scotland or a Scott-ish fantasy setting would be nice. It’s to choose a short passage for language and structural analysis, so someone who does lush description would be good.

Just casually waving around a mirror to the soul on a Saturday morning.