Theresa Breslin, Paul Bunyan, Martin Travers, Ruth Moore

Divided City (eBook, PDF)

The Play

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nominated for ten UK book awards, Theresa Breslin's hit novel tells of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker in a city divided by prejudice. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great acclaim at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

Graham and Joe just want to play football and be selected for the new city team, but a violent attack on Kyoul, an asylum seeker, changes everything when they find themselves drawn into a secret pact to help the victim and his girlfriend Leanne. Set in Glasgow at the time of the Orange Order walks, Divided City is a gripping tale about two boys and how they must find their own way forward in a world divided by difference.

This educational edition has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Published in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series the book:

- meets the curriculum requirements for English at KS3, GCSE and Scottish CfE.
- features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis
- places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities
- will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3
- will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408181584
• Artikelnr.: 40000361

Autorenporträt

Theresa Breslin OBE is an award-winning author of over 50 books for children, many of which have been adapted for television, stage and radio, and translated world-wide. Theresa's first book, Simon's Challenge, won the Young Book Trust Fidler Award for new writers. She was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Whispers in the Graveyard, and Remembrance, her tale of young people in the First World War, was selected for the American Library Assocaiation's Best Books for Young adults. In 2019 Theresa was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by Scottish Book Trust.

Inhaltsangabe

Divided City: The Play Teaching and Learning Activities Introducing a
context and exploring a setting Investigating the opening scenes and key
ideas Key Issues - chains, links and hyperlinks Circle of Conscience -
Living with yourself Responsibility and Fear - Keys and Chains Elephant in
the Room - Seeing the Unseen Placing Texts to explore different contexts
Circle of Techniques - The Adaptation Process Placing the Playwright. Does
the author remain? Approaching the final whistle - Layers of Meaning From a
Divided City to . . . Revisiting the setting