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An inspirational, upbeat collection of relatable lessons from the
teen sensation, Mackenzie Ziegler - an award-winning dancer,
singer/songwriter and actress. Growing up is hard, but growing up
in the spotlight is even harder. However, Mackenzie Ziegler is
taking it all in stride, thanks to her positive attitude on life.
From getting her start on Dance Moms, to her sold-out tour
alongside Johnny Orlando, there's nothing that she can't do. In
Kenzie's Rules for Life, the dance prodigy, singer/songwriter,
actress and model offers her advice on friendship, family, fitness,
style and positivity. For anyone who enjoyed her sister's Sunday
Times bestselling book The Maddie Diaries, this will be the perfect
accompaniment. She shares lessons drawn from her own experiences
for those navigating through their tween years on how to be happy,
healthy and confident in all aspects of their lives.
What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means
freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare means
teaching everything, or teaching "Western Civilisation" and
universal themes. Instead, this invigorating new book equips
teachers to enable student-centred discovery of these complex
texts. Because Shakespeare's plays are excellent vehicles for many
topics -history, socio-cultural norms and mores, vocabulary,
rhetoric, literary tropes and terminology, performance history,
performance strategies - it is tempting to teach his plays as
though they are good for teaching everything. This lens-free
approach, however, often centres the classroom on the teacher as
the expert and renders Shakespeare's plays as fixed, determined,
and dead. Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose shows teachers how to
approach Shakespeare's works as vehicles for collaborative
exploration, to develop intentional frames for discovery, and to
release the texts from over-determined interpretations. In other
words, this book presents how to teach Shakespeare's plays as
living, breathing, and evolving texts.
'For the next six weeks, we meet here, in this room. Unless you are
hospitalised, or deceased, or suffering some kind of catastrophic
physical or emotional trauma, you need to be here'. It's back to
school with a bang for Alisha, Iman and Kareem - they all failed
GCSE English and there are only six weeks until their resits. This
is their last chance to continue Sixth Form, failure is not an
option. It's down to Miss Murphy to see the trio through. But
collectively, the students are unruly, she's already snowed under
with her other classes and the school is literally falling apart.
Can she deliver when there's just as much drama in the staffroom as
there is in the classroom?
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