Jason Hewitt
Author & Playwright
SCHOOL WRITER IN RESIDENCE TESTIMONIAL
ABINGDON SCHOOL, June 2015
Rachel Yarrow, Head of English
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SCHOOL VISIT TESTIMONIAL
FELTHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE, November 2013
Ruth Dupuy, English Department
'Jason came into our school to talk to our A Level English Literature students about the process of writing a novel. I felt it was important for our Sixth Formers to tap into a writer’s mind in order to better understand the methods an author employs to create a story. As a historical novelist, Jason was brilliant at this.
The session was divided into three parts: a talk, a close reading session and Q&A time. Jason’s talk was extremely well prepared and very informative; it highlighted exactly what I wanted - outlining how he finds ideas on what to write, how he creates character, why setting is so important, language choices and extended themes or metaphors, his historical research and how, to coin his term “extreme research”, can shape or change a story, the importance of structure and how he plots this on a graph to see moments of tension and how that impacts on the arc of the narrative, as well as selecting a narrator and choices of punctuation to convey meaning.
From the feedback I have had, our students at Feltham Community College found Jason’s talk really useful. It has enhanced their appreciation of their set texts in study and preparation for their forthcoming examinations, as well as being really good fun. As a teacher I felt his chief success was in connecting his talk to our set texts; Jason had a thorough knowledge of our examination texts and wove this into his talk; in addition he also did a five minute presentation on why he thought each of our four texts were such great stories. This bespoke talk for our students made it really relevant as well as engaging. Jason had a natural ease in front of an audience and was an absolute hit!'
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