Ideas, Insights and Arguments

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Edition:

1st Edition

Author:

Michael Marland

Published:

January 2009

Availability:

Available

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ISBN:

9780521703239

A new series of anthologies to get students reading!

R140.00

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Overview

This anthology offers a richly diverse and thought-provoking collection of non-fiction texts. All are informative - but they are also, by turns, entertaining, eye-opening, challenging, inspiring and poetic. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: The world around us; The world of work; Science; Parents and children; and Human rights and wrongs. The collection includes texts by Fergal Keane, Brian Keenan, Martin Luther King, George Orwell, Libby Purves and Lynne Truss.

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.

1. The world around us: A Roof of One's Own, Jeanette Winterson
My Bubble, My Rules, Lynne Truss
Society is Dead, Andrew Sullivan
Home Thoughts from Abroad, Jan Morris
The Demolition of Euston Arch, John Betjeman
For Compact, Sustainable Communities, Harley Sherlock
Worried? Us?, Bill McKibben
Activities
2. The world of work: The Worst Jobs in History, Tony Robinson
Studying the Beach, Roberta Rosen
Work Expands so as to Fill the Time Available, Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Why I Write, George Orwell
Which Mother Knows Best? Po Bronson
Taking the Rap for Fashion 'Slaves', Gary Younge
Activities
3. Science: The Last Word, Letters in the New Scientist
How to Build a Universe, Bill Bryson
The Life of Sir Alexander Fleming, Andre Maurois
The Natural Selection of Beauty, Charles Darwin
Activities
4. Parents and children: That Certain Smile, Miles Kington
My Mother's Gift to Me, Sylvester Monroe
No Arms, No Legs . . . But I Think My Life's Perfect, Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds
Letter to Daniel, Fergal Keane
Enabling Children to Make Moral Decisions, Letters in The Times
Learning Right from Wrong, Anita Gurian
What Bullying Means to Children, Jean La Fontaine
The Parrot's Training, Rabindranath Tagore
Activities
5. Human rights and wrongs: One Kid's Blast against Bigotry, Libby Purves
This Last Fight for Human Freedom, Emmeline Pankhurst
'I Have a Dream', Martin Luther King
306 Pardons, One Act of Sanity, Ben Macintyre
Dead Man Talking, Steve Boggan
The Tollund Men, Brian Keenan
Activities
Notes on authors.