Voices: Discovering who Taylor Swift is secretly related to blew my mind
Back in another life, during my PGCE, when I was training to be an English teacher, I devised a lesson plan where I taught a group of year eights how to recognise iambic pentameter by getting them to analyse “Rappers Delight” by The Sugar Hill Gang. I may have even done some light rapping myself.
In my mind, I guess I thought it was going to be my “Michelle Pfieffer in ” moment, but really it just earned me a reputation as “Mr Coogan, that embarrassing teacher”. In the aftermath of that disaster, I made cool and ever again.
