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Planning a paragraph of a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'
Pupil outcome: I can plan a paragraph of a diary entry based on ‘Into the Forest’. Key learning points: - This paragraph of the diary entry recounts the boy’s encounters with characters in the forest from his perspective. - The boy...
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Exploring the characters and key themes in 'The Journey'
Pupil outcome: I can understand the key themes and the characters’ emotions in ‘The Journey’. Key learning points: - A theme is a big idea, topic or message that appears in a story. - Themes in a story are used to convey deeper meaning...
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Planning the resolution of 'The Iron Man'
Pupil outcome: I can plan the resolution of 'The Iron Man'. Key learning points: - The purpose of the resolution is to resolve the problem encountered in the story and allow readers to reflect. - In the resolution, Hogarth leads the Iron...
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Exploring the moral and characters in 'The Happy Prince'
Pupil outcome: I can discuss the moral and the characters' emotions in ‘The Happy Prince’. Key learning points: - Expressing the thoughts and emotions of a character helps the reader understand the character more. - Different character...
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Generating ideas for a narrative climax scene in 'When The Sky Falls'
Pupil outcome: I can generate ideas for writing part of the climax of ‘When the Sky Falls’, including descriptive and emotional details. Key learning points: - Writing is most successful when it is planned. - We need to generate ideas...
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Exploring Addie's character
Pupil outcome: I can explore Addie’s character traits in ‘A Kind of Spark’ and identify character lows and highs within the structure of the story. Key learning points: - Addie is the protagonist in 'A Kind of Spark'; she is autistic,...
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Chapter 2 and humanity's response to the Iron Man
Pupil outcome: I can understand how different characters respond to the Iron Man and why. Key learning points: - In Chapter 2 of ‘The Iron Man’, a character named Hogarth is introduced and he encounters the Iron Man. - The Iron Man is...
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Exploring emotions in the opening of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'
Pupil outcome: I can identify Lila's emotions and develop thoughts that convey them. Key learning points: - The opening of 'The Firework-Maker's Daughter' can be streamlined into four key moments. - Lila's emotions shift and change over...
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Exploring characters’ emotions
Pupil outcome: I can describe key events in Chapters 35, 36 and 37 and I can explain how the author’s descriptions and language choices help to show characters’ changing emotions. Key learning points: - In this section of the book,...
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Writing the first half of Juliet's diary entry
Pupil outcome: I can write the first half of Juliet’s imagined diary entry after meeting Romeo, using a range of linguistic features and cohesive devices. Key learning points: - A diary entry combines details about events with details...
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Writing the second half of Juliet's diary entry
Pupil outcome: I can write the second half of Juliet's imagined diary entry after meeting Romeo, using a range of linguistic features and cohesive devices.. Key learning points: - A diary entry combines details about events with details...
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Writing a paragraph of a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'
Pupil outcome: I can write a paragraph of a diary entry based on ‘Into the Forest’. Key learning points: - This paragraph recounts the boy’s encounters with characters in the forest and conveys how his emotions heighten. - Diary entries...
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Stop Freezing in English - Speak English Confidently
In this video, I share some top tips on how to speak English confidently. I look at why many English learners freeze up during conversations and provide practical solutions to overcome this barrier. Whether you've been learning English...
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Understand the Emotions Behind Any Text with Sentiment Analysis: A Python Coding Tutorial
Explore sentiment analysis using VADER to analyze emotions in text from social media, reviews, and more.
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Principal Agent Relationships in a Negotiation
In negotiations the principle parties are the decision makers, while the agents are the people who represent the interests of the principal decision makers. In negotiations, you have to know who's sitting at the table. Some of these...
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Common Constraints in Negotiations
This Video Explains Common Constraints in Negotiations
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Enneagram of 9 Personalities
What is the Enneagram of 9 Personalities? Nines value harmony, comfort and peace. They are motivated by a need to always keep the peace and avoid conflict at all costs.
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Emotions (Organizational Behavior)
What are Emotions? How do emotions relate to Organizational Behavior? Emotions shape an individual's belief about the value of a job, a company, or a team. Emotions also affect behaviors at work. Research shows that individuals within...
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Emotional Labor
What is Emotional Labor? Emotional labor is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job. More specifically, workers are expected to regulate their personas during interactions with...
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Emotional Intelligence
What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence is most often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions.
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Effect of Information Technology on Negotiation
When negotiators interact via technology, power and status differences/cues are minimized. This is known as the weak get strong effect. As such, people respond more openly and are less likely to conform to social norms.
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Effect of Mood and Emotions on Negotiations
This Video Explains the Effect of Mood and Emotions on Negotiations
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Arguments - Persuasive Communications
Persuasive writing is a form of written communication intended to convince or influence readers to accept a particular idea or opinion and to inspire action.