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This series of unabridged Shakespeare titles is based on the
premise that students can reach a clear understanding of their work
only through a close and careful reading of the text. The
commentary facing each page of the text has been designed to
suggest a critical interpretation of the play.
To accompany the Henry V graphic novels from "Classical Comics" and
to help with their application in the classroom, this book is
spiral-bound, making the pages easy to photocopy, and includes a
CD-ROM with the pages in PDF format, ideal for whole-class teaching
on whiteboards, laptops, etc or for direct digital printing.
Written by a teacher, for teachers, helping to engage and involve
students in Shakespeare's play. Suitable for teaching ages 10-17,
this book provides exercises that cover structure, listening,
understanding, motivation and character as well as key words,
themes and literary techniques. Although the majority of the tasks
focus on the use of language and comprehension, there are also many
cross-curriculum topics, covering areas within history, ICT, drama,
reading, speaking, writing and art. There is an extensive
Educational Links section that provides further study
opportunities. Devised to encompass a broad range of skill levels,
this book provides many opportunities for differentiated teaching
and the tailoring of lessons to meet individual needs. It includes
a CD-ROM. This resource can be used alongside the Classical Comics
adaptation of Henry V as well as any traditional text. In fact,
many of the activities can stand on their own as introductions to
the world of Shakespeare.
La Place looks at a daughter's relationship with her father. In a
fragmented and retrospective way the narrator describes her
feelings of separation and betrayal that arise when education and
marriage place her in a social class with different values,
language, tastes and behaviour. She explores the ways in which
individual experience is related to class and group attitudes and
at the same time tells us a great deal about French society in
general since the turn of the century. It is a concentrated text,
cut through with irony and may be read in different ways. La Place
will be an accessible and exciting addition to French studies
courses.
There have been many great and enduring works of literature by
Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary
Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories,
overflowing with life and acute observations about society. A
sparkling collection of short stories set in Trinidad. Anthony
takes our hand and walks us from the valley of the lush, green
cocoa trees, to taste the sweet rivers flowing nearby. We pluck
fruit from the sapodilla tree and feel the crisp, brown guava
leaved carpet crunch under our feet. We see Mayaro and Port of the
Spain through the eyes of childish innocence and grown-up
ignorance. Beautiful, evocative and poignant, the stories are
sprinkled with themes of yearning for home, sad realisations and a
longing for a pre-modern totality.
There have been many great and enduring works of literature by
Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary
Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories,
overflowing with life and acute observations about society. This
luminous book recounted through the eyes of the 12-year-old
Francis, describes the year he spends, far away from home, in San
Fernando. As his initial confusion gives way to increasing
confidence and maturity, the open consciousness of the boy allows
different times, events and places to co-exist. Over the course of
one year, through Francis' eyes, we see the cycle of natural change
and progression; the daily round of the market, showing the fruits
of different seasons, the passage of dry season to rainy and back
again to dry, the cane fires as the crop comes to an end, all
symbolising the progression of the boy's year. And weaving in and
amongst these mundane but intense experiences Francis feels his way
to some understanding of adulthood.
'Clever, comprehensive and current... a book I'll be returning to
again and again.' Stuart Pryke 'Every English teacher will get huge
value from this timely book.' Alex Quigley The ultimate guide to
teaching English in a secondary school, this book supports you on
your journey from trainee to head of department - and everything
in-between. Succeeding as an English Teacher provides practical
guidance in an accessible format to help you teach English at Key
Stages 3, 4 and 5. It covers key topics, including: - planning a
knowledge-rich and diverse curriculum and schemes of learning -
delivering engaging and effective lessons - advancing your subject
knowledge - supporting students with revision - applying the
science of learning in your English classroom. This book is perfect
for any newly qualified or experienced teacher looking to develop
their practice and progress in their career. Featuring the varied
perspectives of 12 English teachers, this unique compilation offers
invaluable advice and top tips for making every English lesson
count, as well as real-life examples, opportunities for reflection
and a foreword by Jill Berry. The Succeeding As... series offers
practical, no-nonsense guidance to help you excel in a specific
role in a secondary school. Including everything you need to be
successful in your teaching career, the books are ideal for those
just starting out as well as more experienced practitioners looking
to develop their skill sets.
On a school trip to research the history of a graveyard, a group of
students unearth a lot more than they bargained for! This excellent
adaptation retells Theresa Breslin's timeless, Carnegie
medal-winning story. Solomon is bullied by his teachers and let
down by his parents. His refuge is the graveyard in the shadow of
the rowan tree, the only thing that grows there. When workmen
uproot the tree a strange and terrible power is unleashed. It seems
a lust for revenge is spanning the centuries...* A thrilling
adaptation of a Carnegie medal-winning novel. * Packed with social
and historical themes. * Perfect for exploring character.
Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English
vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the
work in its social and historical context.
This brief, affordable, straightforward book-packed with rich
resources-is a true compendium of information about children's
literature and how to use children's literature in the classroom.
It is designed to awaken, reawaken, and motivate students to share
literature with children. In clear, concise, direct narrative using
recommended book lists, examples, figures, and tables in
combination with prose, this book conveys the body of knowledge
about children's literature and about teaching literature to
children. The Seventh Edition of this best-selling book adds a new
co-author, Kathy G. Short, to the well-known author team of Carol
Lynch-Brown and Carl M. Tomlinson.
Based on a systematic sampling of nearly 2000 French and English
novels from 1601 to 1830, this book's foremost aim is to ask
precisely how the novel evolved. Instead of simply 'rising', as
scholars have been saying for some sixty years, the novel is in
fact a system in constant flux, made up of artifacts - formally
distinct novel types - that themselves rise, only to inevitably
fall. Nicholas D. Paige argues that these artifacts are
technologies, each with traceable origins, each needing time for
adoption (at the expense of already developed technologies) and
also for abandonment. Like technological waves in more physical
domains, the rises and falls of novelistic technologies don't
happen automatically: writers invent and adopt literary artifacts
for many diverse reasons. However, looking not at individual works
but at the novel as a patterned system provides a startlingly
persuasive new way of understanding the history and evolution of
artforms.
This book is divided into 12 sections, each highlighting a goal
that any child can aspire to achieve, such as being honest and
telling the truth. Edelman encourages children to take
responsibility for the kind of people they are and will become.
Illustrations.
This series presents a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books
offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions and assignment
suggestions for GCSE. In this Russian comedy, a young traveller in
a provincial town is mistaken for a government inspector.
This essential guide offers a fresh approach to integrating grammar
effectively into the classroom as a vital strand of English that
both enlivens and enriches students' understanding of literature.
It aims to demystify grammar and empower teachers with the
knowledge, inspiration and practical ideas to confidently teach
grammar to students at any stage of their secondary education. The
authors demonstrate that routinely weaving grammar into lessons and
the study of literature, rather than teaching it as an abstract set
of rules, enables students to see grammar in a more flexible,
enjoyable and exciting way. Each chapter clearly defines complex
terminology and provides an essential overview of relevant subject
knowledge. With multiple examples of textual analysis and a variety
of adaptable lesson plans for popular Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4
texts, the book shows how grammatical requirements can be taught in
a lively, literature-based manner, developing students'
understanding and improving the quality of their creative and
academic writing. Taught like this, grammar becomes a decoding
tool: a key to unlocking deeper meaning within texts that enriches
the reading experience. Considering a wide range of texts, Teaching
Grammar through Literature thoroughly works through core
grammatical concepts such as: sentences and sentence clauses nouns
verbs determiners punctuation extension vocabulary. This book is a
source of fresh and exciting ideas for all practising secondary
school English teachers. It will revolutionalise teaching and
enrich students' understanding of literature and the grammatical
theory within.
There have been many great and enduring works of literature by
Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary
Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories,
overflowing with life and acute observations about society. Empire
Windrush has long had an iconic status in British and Caribbean
history. This book, largely told in the form of diary entries and
letters home, reveals the day to day experience of the first
immigrants, and the far-reaching effects on their lives and
relationships. Jen has left a young daughter, Sunshine, in Jamaica,
and in these letters to her daughter, she attempts to make sense of
the dislocation and displacement she experiences, her response, and
the effect on those close to her. A companion novel to Aunt Jen,
Letters Home is a penetrating and devastating study of the
immigrant experience in 1960s Britain, and its long-lasting
consequences. Suitable for readers aged 16 and above.
Jewel lives in a village called Ixopo. It rains a lot and the
valley is very green. At night she like to watch the stars appear.
An engaging, easy-to-use and informative biography of Shakespeare
with humorous illustrations. So what was it like to live in
Shakespeare's time? What do we actually know about him? And how
does someone become that famous? These are just a few of the
questions addressed in this lively and accessible book on the life
and works of William Shakespeare by award-winning author Michael
Rosen. Ideal for browsing, the text is divided into clear sections
and includes studies of four of Shakespeare's plays, intriguing
facts and information about Shakespeare himself and the world at
this time, accompanied by a useful timeline.
Get your students to be gansters in this great play which has been
specially adapted for schools from the popular film and it even
includes still photographs. So join all the characters: Bugsy, Fat
Sam, Tallulah and Dandy Dan for great fun with the whole class.
Students will relish this opportunity to play a cast of
Prohibition-era mobsters. Fat Sam, who runs one of the most popular
speakeasies in town, is in danger of being closed down by his
'business rival' Dandy Dan. Enter baby-faced Bugsy Malone, a killer
with the ladies and a definite asset to Fat Sam. Unfortunately,
Bugsy has also caught the eye of Sam's girlfriend Tallulah - though
he's set his designs on the showgirl Blousey Brown. This play lends
itself perfectly to school performance with its large mixed cast
and consistent humour. The book contains a stimulating playscript
suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by
resources including background material and lively activities.
Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study
by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will
include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and
other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and
will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken
from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English
from various genres and differing times.
In a startling, often poignant student journal, acclaimed poet and
novelist Ron Koertge creates a suburban high school both familiar
and terrifying.
The Branston High School Class of 2001 seems familiar enough on the
surface: there's the Smart One, the Fat Kid, Social Conscience, Bad
Girl, Good Girl, Jock, Anorexic, Dyke, Rich Boy, Sistah, Stud . . .
and Boyd, an Angry Young Man who has just made a dangerous new
friend. Now he's making a list.
The Branston High School Class of 2001. You might think you know
them. You might be surprised.
Narrated by fifteen teenage characters, this startling, often
poignant poetic novel evokes a suburban high school both familiar
and terrifying -- and provides an ideal opportunity for young
adults to discuss violence in schools.
This new edition of Romeo and Juliet for South African schools and
collages has been updated to include comprehensive text notes and
commentary throughout. As well as the complete script of the play,
this edition includes: an eight-page photographic gallery of scenes
from various productions of the play informative background
information on Shakespeare and Elizabethan England an introduction
to the play, its themes and characters a synopsis of the action in
each scene line-by-line test notes giving explanations of
unfamiliar words, interpretations of meanings, and stimulating
commentary a selection of notes, illustrations, ideas and
activities to increase your understanding of the play questions
providing valuable examination practice a list of references
offering suggestions for further reading and other useful resources
an extensive glossary of useful words and literary terms."
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