Divided City: The Play
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 when all they really want to do is play football for Glasgow City. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great success at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, the Critical Script edition:

- 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.

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Divided City: The Play
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 when all they really want to do is play football for Glasgow City. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great success at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, the Critical Script edition:

- 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.

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Divided City: The Play

Divided City: The Play

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Overview

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 when all they really want to do is play football for Glasgow City. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great success at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, the Critical Script edition:

- 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781408181577
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/14/2013
Series: Critical Scripts
Pages: 162
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Martin Travers, author of this exciting stage adaption, is a dramatist based at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre where he is head of Citizens Learning and TAG Theatre Company.

Theresa Breslin is a popular Carnegie medal winning author, critically acclaimed for over thirty books, whose work has been filmed for television dramatised on radio.

Paul Bunyan is a Drama Education consultant with many years of school and local authority experience across all phases.

Ruth Moore is a Deputy Headteacher with many years of Leadership and Drama and English teaching experience.

Table of Contents

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

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