This Play Guide is specifically written for A Level students who are studying The Glass Menagerie as part of the AQA A Level Drama & Theatre specification. It provides structured support for Component 1: Section A - Drama and theatre. / This book is divided into three sections: How to explore a text for A level Drama and Theatre, with vocabulary-building sections on acting, directing and design; An extended exploration of the play to enrich students' understanding and response to the text; Targeted examination preparation to improve writing and test-taking skills. / Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of key A Level drama & theatre skills. / Knowledge and understanding of the play are developed with a synopsis, character and scene studies, contextual and practical exploration. / Includes a wide range of practical drama tasks, activities, and research and revision exercises. / Advice on how to interpret and prepare for exam questions with examples of effective responses.

Written by a highly experienced and respected Drama teacher and Author, Annie Fox, this comprehensive resource offers detailed guidance on how to approach performing duologues for the GCSE Drama course. It aims to help students have the most positive possible experience of performing duologues, from choosing ones that suits their skills, supporting their rehearsals and trouble-shooting common problems. - Provides guidance on how to select a duologue, including the choice of character, content and genre. - Includes a large selection of exemplar duologues for performance practice, each with a summary of the setting and characters, as well as notes to aid in understanding and breaking down the scene. - Offers advice and tips on how to rehearse and troubleshoot common issues such as forgetting lines and ensuring students demonstrate a range of skills. - Covers a wide range of genres and styles, including the horror thriller Let the Right One In, the friendship drama Out of Love and the hilarious fantasy comedy, Alice. - Supports all GCSE Drama specifications including AQA, OCR, Edexcel and WJEC/Eduqas, and offers high-quality support you can trust.

A practical, hands-on resource to help students tackle the Live Theatre Evaluation aspect of their Drama GCSE. // Covers the different elements of theatre performance and the Evaluation requirements from each awarding body // Includes advice on how to prepare before viewing a performance // Provides guidance on analysing and evaluating acting, sets, costume, lighting and sound // Support for developing writing skills such as expressing and ordering ideas, plan making and common problems // Contains sample practice questions // Suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama specifications

The Play Guide provides structured support for the three Sections that are all part of Component 1: Understanding Drama in the AQA GCSE Drama specification: / Section A Theatre Roles and Responsibilities. / Section B Study of a Set Play / Section C Understanding Drama - Live Theatre Production. / Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of the set plays. / Knowledge and understanding are developed alongside the key drama skills through a range of practical ideas and activities, tasks and exercises. / Includes a dedicated section on how to improve exam and writing skills with a number of practice exam-style questions.

The Play Guide provides structured support for the three Sections that are all part of Component 1: Understanding Drama in the AQA GCSE Drama specification: / Section A Theatre Roles and Responsibilities. / Section B Study of a Set Play / Section C Understanding Drama - Live Theatre Production. / Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of the set plays. / Knowledge and understanding are developed alongside the key drama skills through a range of practical ideas and activities, tasks and exercises. / Includes a dedicated section on how to improve exam and writing skills with a number of practice exam-style questions.

This Play Guide is specifically written for A Level students who are studying Hedda Gabler as part of the AQA A Level Drama & Theatre specification. It provides structured support for Component 1: Section A - Drama and theatre. / This book is divided into three sections: How to explore a text for A level Drama and Theatre, with vocabulary-building sections on acting, directing and design; An extended exploration of the play to enrich students' understanding and response to the text; Targeted examination preparation to improve writing and test-taking skills. / Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of key A Level drama & theatre skills. / Knowledge and understanding of the play are developed with a synopsis, character and scene studies, contextual and practical exploration. / Includes a wide range of practical drama tasks, activities, and research and revision exercises. / Advice on how to interpret and prepare for exam questions with examples of effective responses.

This Play Guide is specifically written for A Level students who are studying Our Country's Good as part of the AQA A Level Drama & Theatre specification. It provides structured support for Component 1: Section A - Drama and theatre. This book is divided into three sections: 1) How to explore a text for A level Drama and Theatre, with vocabulary-building sections on acting, directing and design; 2) An extended exploration of the play to enrich students' understanding and response to the text; 3) Targeted examination preparation to improve writing and test-taking skills. - Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of key A Level drama & theatre skills. - Knowledge and understanding of the play are developed with a synopsis, character and scene studies, contextual and practical exploration. - Includes a wide range of practical drama tasks, activities, and research and revision exercises. - Advice on how to interpret and prepare for exam questions with examples of effective responses.

A practical, hands-on resource to help students tackle the Performing Monologues aspect of their Drama GCSE. // Provides guidance on how to choose a monologue, including the choice of character, style, content and genre // Includes a large selection of exemplar monologues and offers a synopsis of the play, rehearsal techniques and areas for further research on each one // Contains notes on additional scenes from the plays which could also be considered, studied and performed. // Advice on how to rehearse, and how to tackle common problems such as timing, nerves, voice and eye-lines // Downloadable pro-forma sheets are also available including a rehearsal schedule, research, feedback, post-rehearsal notes and performance checklist // Suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama specifications

Written by experienced teacher and author Annie Fox and endorsed by OCR, the Student Book offers high quality support you can trust. / Colourful, highly visual and accessible approach with practical activities throughout to engage students of all abilities. // Contains detailed analysis and description of all set plays. // Includes many contemporary examples of drama writing, staging, performance and interpretation allowing students to explore key skills in an appropriate context // Key drama terminology is identified and defined throughout. // Covers all of the OCR GCSE Drama components, including Devising Drama and Presenting and Performing Texts, as well as all elements of the written examination, Performance and Response.

This Play Guide is specifically written for A Level students who are studying Antigone as part of the AQA A Level Drama & Theatre specification. It provides structured support for Component 1: Section A - Drama and theatre. / This book is divided into three sections: How to explore a text for A level Drama and Theatre, with vocabulary-building sections on acting, directing and design; An extended exploration of the play to enrich students' understanding and response to the text; Targeted examination preparation to improve writing and test-taking skills. / Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of key A Level drama & theatre skills. / Knowledge and understanding of the play are developed with a synopsis, character and scene studies, contextual and practical exploration. / Includes a wide range of practical drama tasks, activities, and research and revision exercises. / Advice on how to interpret and prepare for exam questions with examples of effective responses.

The Play Guide provides structured support for the three Sections that are all part of Component 1: Understanding Drama in the AQA GCSE Drama specification: / Section A Theatre Roles and Responsibilities. / Section B Study of a Set Play / Section C Understanding Drama - Live Theatre Production. / Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of the set plays. / Knowledge and understanding are developed alongside the key drama skills through a range of practical ideas and activities, tasks and exercises. / Includes a dedicated section on how to improve exam and writing skills with a number of practice exam-style questions.

The Revised Edition of this popular Student Book covers AQA's updated GCSE Drama specification for first teaching from September 2020. // Covers the new selection of set plays for 2020 in AQA's updated specification: The Crucible, Blood Brothers, Noughts & Crosses, Things I Know to be True, Around the World in 80 Days, Romeo and Juliet, A Taste of Honey. // Approved by AQA. // Fully supports the specification assessment objectives and covers the three components: Understanding drama, Devising drama, Texts in practice. // Includes plenty of practical suggestions for drama activities, and tasks enable students to develop their performance and design skills. // Contains many contemporary examples of drama writing, staging, performance and interpretation allow students to explore key ideas and skills in a relevant context. // Analysis and evaluation skills are highlighted and practised in all topics. // Interviews and case studies of key roles such as set designer and performer help improve student understanding. // Key drama terminology is identified and defined throughout. //

This Play Guide is specifically written for students studying Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses, as adapted by Dominic Cooke, as a set play text for the AQA GCSE Drama specification. // It fully supports the written examination and helps you develop your key knowledge and understanding of the set play. // It provides structured support for the three Sections that are all part of Component 1 Understanding Drama in the specification: Section A Theatre Roles and Responsibilities, Section B Study of a Set Play, Section C Understanding Drama - Live Theatre Production. // Knowledge and understanding are developed alongside the key drama skills through a range of practical ideas and activities, tasks and exercises. // It includes a dedicated section on how to improve exam and writing skills with a number of practice exam-style questions. //

Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure, performance and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work wtih the text. Each book also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, is suitable for all exam boards and for the most recent AS/A level specifications.

Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work with the text. Each book also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, is suitable for all exam boards and for the most recent AS/A level specifications.

""Not all teachers are parents, but all parents are teachers. When we teach kids to be good people who possess the social courage to do the right thing, we help to make the world a safer, saner, more accepting place for all of us.""
-Annie Fox, M.Ed.

We live in a time shaped by a viral culture of cruelty. Now and in the future, we desperately need more good people. But where will these young people come from? From the homes of parents with a game plan In "Teaching Kids to Be Good People," Annie Fox has written a very personal, step-by-step guide to teaching your children to make healthy choices (online and off). Because being good is not enough. We have to do good.

This very pragmatic and funny guide includes essays, podcasts, prompts, tools, questions, answers, and self-assessment quizzes, all for the purpose of teaching kids to be good people. Hopefully, you'll become so engaged in this process that you will inspire your children to do the right thing when no one's watching, and when everyone is watching.

Visit www.TeachingKidsToBeGoodPeople.com for excerpts, reviews and more about the book.

REVIEWS
""Stellar Unlike many solution-based parenting books, Teaching Kids to Be Good People is insightful, intuitive on so many levels . . . a truly meaningful book for our times.""
-Dr. Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., author of "The Family Coach Method"

"" G]reat advice on how exactly we can help our kids with their most important skill set-the social-emotional one.""
-Rick Ackerly, author of "The Genius in Every Child"

""Annie Fox has a genuine passion for helping our young people and she has many years of experience doing it. Both are evident in this wonderful resource for parents and teachers.""
-Dr. Hal Urban, Ed.D., author of "Life's Greatest Lessons"

""Every time I read something of Annie's, it makes me think... you can't help but love all that she does. Great book ""
-Sarah Newton, author of "Help My Teenager Is an Alien "

""I wholeheartedly recommend 'Teaching Kids to be Good People' to any significant adult in children's lives. This book offers guidance and practical advice to ensure that children are supported to become the best that they can be. The best not only for themselves but the best also for their families, schools, communities and the world ""
-Sue McNamara, Director of Education, Six Seconds South East Asia

""Timing is everything, and the time has come for this book Teaching Kids to Be Good People not only helps parents introduce and support their children's emotions, it also reminds adults that we too must honor and release our deeply held feelings as well. The time has come ""
-Sharon Silver, CPE, author of "Stop Reacting and Start Responding"

""Annie has been helping teens use their moral compass and parents and educators to support young people's development of one for 30 years, and her very readable latest book has that level of experience, plus wisdom, anecdotes, exercises, and compass-development tools, packed into it. I highly recommend this book. In it, Annie connects 21st-century parenting to the wisdom of the ages.""
-Anne Collier, journalist, youth advocate and co-director of ConnectSafely.org

"" A] wonderfully practical and warm-hearted book. It will empower parents with some really helpful suggestions and ideas for navigating the choppy emotional waters of raising great adults. I highly recommend that you settle down with a cup of coffee and enjoy reading 'Teaching Kids' as Annie's ideas will make communicating with your children meaningful and magical.""
-Sue Atkins, author of "Parenting Made Easy-How to Raise Happy Children"

Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular GCSE set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characters, themes, language and contexts, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work with the text. Each book also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is suitable for all exam boards and for the most recent GCSEspecifications.

An anthology of the three winning plays in the inaugural Heretic Voices competition, seeking out the best new writing in monologue form. First performed at the Arcola theatre, London. This volume contains: Woman Caught Unaware by Annie Fox - a searing and bleakly funny debut play which examines of the culture of body shaming Dean McBride by Sonya Hale - a vivid and poetic story of loss and redemption set on a Croydon council estate A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy - a thrilling and brave exploration of mortality, adolescence and the Arctic