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Books > Children's & Educational > The arts > Performing arts
The perfect gift for the fantastic feminist in your life! An
inspiring, empowering, fantastically feminist and totally true
story, perfect for fans of Little People, Big Dreams and Goodnight
Stories for Rebel Girls. Meet the amazing Emma Watson:
fantastically feminist, incredibly inspiring and astonishing actor
and activist. The young Emma is clever, enthusiastic and at age
nine, wins a part in the world's biggest film series, Harry Potter.
She inspires millions with her portrayal of the much-loved Hermione
but it isn't long until Emma shows she is just as smart, brave and
determined in real life. She finds a passion for feminism and works
to stand up for fairness and equality, becoming an inspiring force
for girl power. This is the absolutely astonishing, fantastically
feminist and, best of all, totally true story of one amazingly
determined young woman.
The second volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking HIS DARK
MATERIALS trilogy, now a thrilling, critically acclaimed BBC/HBO
series. "What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer."
Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take
him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted
city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own,
and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the
worlds... this hardback edition has a stunning cover by celebrated
artist, Chris Wormell.
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.
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