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Zoe Anne

@zoanne.bsky.social
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Year 4 teacher. Morphological approaches to spelling. Undirected creative writing time. Books. Lots of books.

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Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This year for end of term treats we’ve watched Labyrinth, The Neverending Story and we’re half-way through The Princess Bride (I’m prepped for Montoya’s little linguistic moment). The class keep asking to watch more of “the 80s” - it cracks me up.
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Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Gothic 9yo is copying out the text to Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch because he loves it so much he wants the words with him all the time 🤷‍♀️
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Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Accidental poem written aloud by a softly-burbling fugue-state class of 8-9 year olds while watching the last few scenes of Labyrinth:
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 26/03/2025
Hi friends. It's official podcast launch day! It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton's first episode, a wonderful story called Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death, by Caroline M. Yoachim, is now available wherever you get your podcasts. I'm so excited and pretty anxious! It's a big day!
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It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton
You may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B…
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books. If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM. #ProtestHistory #Commons reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
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Contested Commons | Reaktion Books
A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over...
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Oh this is so true. “Realist” fiction is a comforting fantasy. Fiction in which people create strange computer programmes that pretend to be God and billionaires build survival bunkers is truthfully reflecting reality. So is fiction where weird hallucinatory shit happens.
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Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My mother just randomly mentioned “Robbie Williams - you know, Wham?” After I had recovered from my weeping snorting fit she said “Oh well, I knew he was in some sort of band like What What What…” She was not trolling me.
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Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Some grieve for Chocolate Pac-Man. Some relish his doom. Some find his defEAT inevitable. Some wail for him to step into the bright shroud of Lazarus. Some say that resurrections are cheating (except for that 1 story where everyone comes back twice so they die again gruesomely rapidly lots).
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Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Can’t wait til the paperback comes out so I can get some for my class - there are worlds of glorious writing / mapping / creepy flora & fauna lessons (and more) aching to be planned. It’s heavenly beautiful too…
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Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My mum is grumbling about how things have changed - “Now we’ve all got mobile phones and I don’t know what’s happened to citizens band radio…”. She has a new trapper hat - “like putting your head into a rabbit - it’s quite delightful” - which will end up slathered in wax if it dares let in rain.
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