Month: May 2022

Next up on my play list after Alan Wake – and most likely well into the summer – is the Mass Effect trilogy, a sort of RPG/shooter/interactive story that was released between 2007 and 2012 with a follow-up, Andromeda, published in 2017. One of the joys of the Xbox Series X is its backward compatibility, which means that pretty good games cost a couple of pounds. I only vaguely remember playing the first Mass Effect. It’s one of those games – like Bioshock – that In realise I should have paid more attention to at the time.

Edit: just noticed it’s out of sequence! Agghhh!

I’ve become convinced that teaching Macbeth benefits from nailing down the sequence of scenes and linking each scene with quotes, a determined number of themes and imagery. Taught simultaneously and reviewed reviewed reviewed. I’ve just started teaching the play to Year 10 and constructed this mobile for my classroom that I’ll use for questioning and retrieval. I’m pleased with the idea of using hashtags as themes and imagery (and pondering on whether to use double hashtags for imagery…).