Keith Gray, Carl Miller

Ostrich Boys (eBook, ePUB)

Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010, Keith Gray's hit novel features a group of three friends who embark on a remarkable journey from Cleethorpes to Scotland with a stolen urn containing the ashes of their best friend... Now adapted for the stage by Birmingham Rep for a production by their Youth Theatre in 2011, Ostrich Boys is ideal for KS3 and KS4 English and will appeal strongly to boys as well as girls.

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• meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010)
  
• 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: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474278980
• Artikelnr.: 44242257

Autorenporträt

Keith Gray has written a number of award-winning novels for teenage readers including The Runner, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award); Hunting the Cat (1996), a story based on the legends of big cats; From Blood: Two Brothers (1997), about two 18-year olds; Dead Trouble (1997), about two teenage boys who find a gun; and Malarkey (2003), shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize.

Recent books include Warehouse (2002), set in the docklands of a small northern town, also shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and winner of the 2003 Angus Book Award; The Fearful (2005), shortlisted for the 2005 Catalyst Book Award; Ghosting (2008); and Ostrich Boys (2008), shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award, the 2009 Carnegie Medal, and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. In 2011 Carl Miller's adaptation of Ostrich Boys premiered at the Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham.