Who We Are
Who We Are
A new series of anthologies to get students reading!
Overview
An eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, articles and autobiography exploring what it is to be human and examining the challenges we face as global citizens. This collection is designed to link with Citizenship and PSHE issues, such as identity, rights, responsibilities and tradition. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: Growing pains; Letting go; Facing the world; Britain in the past and The world about us. The collection includes texts by Maya Angelou, Arthur C. Clarke, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively and Roger McGough.
Features
- A wide variety of high quality texts encourages all students to read more, and helps to develop key reading skills.
- Each anthology covers the whole of Key Stage 3 enabling teachers to use the books with a range of groups of different ages and abilities.
- Emphasis on complete short stories and whole non-fiction texts to help students build 'reading stamina'; encourage wider reading for pleasure; and provide the opportunity for analysis and evaluation at whole-text level.
- Each anthology includes photographs and specially comissioned illustrations to engage students' interest as well as providing valuable stimulus or contextual material.
- A wide variety of lively activities (including speaking and listening) are included for individual, pair, group and whole class work.
- All activities are integrated with the texts to enable easy use in class.
- Activities include opportunities for comparing a range of texts to develop a key higher-order reading skill, and provides invaluable preparation for the Year 9 SATs.
- Multimedia support materials include editable, differentiated worksheets for all texts enabling teachers to tailor the materials to suit the precise needs of their class.
- Multimedia support materials include colour photographs and audio clips - for use with computer or an interactive whiteboard - to bring texts to life and provide valuable stimulus and contextual material.
- A great value price of £5.95 per anthology and £49.50 per CD-ROM makes this an affordable resource.
Contents
- 1. Growing pains: Clara's Day, Penelope Lively
- Sliding, Leslie Norris
- Taming the Tiger, Tony Anthony
- I Wish I Were . . ., Rabindranath Tagore
- I Was Left with a Childcarer . . . and Never Collected, Barbara Brown
- Activities
- 2. Letting go: My Best Teacher, Vic Reeves
- The Secret Life of Snap Decisions, Malcolm Gladwell
- The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde
- An African Elegy, Ben Okri
- I Found Love at the Supermarket Checkout, Tom Hill
- Warning to Children, Robert Graves
- Activities
- 3. Facing the world: If, Rudyard Kipling
- Through the Tunnel, Doris Lessing
- Almost Drowning, Richard Branson
- The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky, Ken Dornstein
- Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth
- My Mam's Death, Samantha Studley
- Activities
- 4. Britain in the past: The Year 1000, Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger
- Down the Mine, George Orwell
- The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- MCMXIV, Philip Larkin
- The Roses of No Man's Land, Lyn MacDonald
- Not My Best Side, U. A. Fanthorpe
- Activities
- 5. The world about us: The Destructors, Graham Greene
- We Are Going to See the Rabbit, Alan Brownjohn
- Song of the Battery Hen, Edwin Brock
- Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone, Adam Hart-Davis and Paul Bader
- Hunger, Laurence Binyon
- Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
- Facts to Change the World, Jessica Williams
- Somebody's Watching You, Alexandra Campbell
- Televised, Maya Angelou
- The Fish Are All Sick, Anne Stevenson
- The Lake, Roger McGough
- Before Eden, Arthur C. Clarke
- Activities
- Notes on authors.
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