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New secondary English titles coming in 2010 Please note prices for new titles are estimates and will be confirmed on publication English Resource Book plus...Creative Extensions  Books 1,2,3 and 4 my.word/s: comprehensive literacy skills Book 1 Years 7 - 8 my.word/s: comprehensive literacy skills Book 2 Years 9 - 10 Forebears Drama Cuts A Land Beyond the River Codgers Play on Bill: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Not That Dream Again! Cassandra - and other monologues for girls Murder Most Foul: Explorations in Crime Writing Exploring Genre: War Exploring Genre: Science fiction Imagination, Innovation, Creativity: Re-Visioning English in Education Charged with Meaning: Re-Viewing English, (3rd edition)   see below for details   Australia Canada England India Jamaica Malaysia and Singapore New Zealand Nigeria Northern Ireland Scotland South Africa Wales The English Resource Book plus...Creative Extensions  Books 1, 2, 3 and 4 This new series brings together some of the best from the previous English Resource book series AND English Extension Activities AND Creative English Activities. Each book contains over 100 photocopiable work sheets covering most aspects of English, with additional sheets of extension activities more more able and talented students. All four titles are available now.   Phoenix English Skills  my.word/s comprehensive literacy skills  Book 1  (Years 7 - 8)  my.word/s comprehensive literacy skills  Book 2  (Years 9 - 10)   by  John and Jenny Barwick  Each book includes 12 units. Each unit is based on a stimulus text, covering all standard types of text - fiction and non-fiction, as well as visual texts.  Each unit has a large range of contextualised activities based on or linked to the text. These include: · comprehension · writing, including writing skill development and whole text composition using scaffolds · talking and listening · thinking · grammar and punctuation · spelling and vocabulary · extension activities bringing together a range of elements of English Each book also has two comprehensive basic literacy tests.  my.word/s book 1                 978-1-921586-04-0               $24.95 my.word/s book 2                  978-1-921586-05-7               $24.95  available NOW   Drama Cuts Susan Battye   During the twentieth and early twenty-first century, English became the chosen language of international dialogue crossing boundaries between races and social classes. Reading, discussing and performing extracts from Commonwealth plays provides a window into the thinking and attitudes of people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Their hopes, fears and aspirations are laid bare in these gripping extracts. Included are play extracts from:   Australia New Zealand Britain Canada India Malaysia St Lucia Nigeria South Africa Uganda The selection provides extracts from 13 plays in total, many by famous writers such as Nobel Laureates, Nigerian playwright, Wole Soyinka who wrote Death and the King’s Horseman and  St Lucia playwright Derek Walcott who wrote Ti-Jean and his Brothers. Extracts have been selected not only because of their social, political, historical and literary significance, but also because of their gripping themes related to moral and physical dilemmas. The extracts, which are suitable for classroom and drama studio use, include scripts for large and small groups, and feature monologue and duologue scripts.   Drama Cuts will be supported by Drama Cuts Teacher’s Resource Book which will provide background information on the full play texts, notes on individual plays and activities suitable for students of English and Drama.   Drama Cuts  978-1-921586-27-9 $26.95 available now Drama Cuts TRB  978-1-921586-30-9 $29.95 available now   A Land Beyond the River Justin Fleming   A Land Beyond the River is a new play, particularly suitable for school performance. It has all the qualities for a school production -  It has a large cast, an interesting and well written story and touches on some important issues. It is set around a school production of To Kill a Mockingbird. When things start to go wrong with the production the students take the play in some different directions, with some interesting results.   A Land Beyond the The River   978 1 921586 21 7   $14.95  available now     Exploring Genre: War   Exploring Genre: Science Fiction  Barbara Stanners Each title in this series of teacher resource books, intended for use with students  in middle and senior secondary years, starts with a detailed definition of the genre, followed by an examination of a wide range of texts with · Background information · Information about text and context · Ideas on genre conventions, representation of themes, characters, style · suggestions and strategies for dealing with the texts  · A wide range of student activities to suit different year levels,  with emphasis on what is being said and how it is being said, with questions and response tasks. Exploring Genre - War                        978-1-921586-01-9        $39.95     available July Exploring Genre - Science Fiction    978-1-921586-00-2         $39.95     available now   Murder Most Foul: Explorations in Crime Writing by Barbara Stanners Murder has always exuded a fascinating hold on our psyche, simultaneously repulsive and thrilling. Investigating ‘whodunit’ requires a keen mind and a determined search for the truth. This is typically marked by a logical, deductive process which draws us into the investigation itself. Many critics have noted the escapist nature of crime writing while others have stressed the effectiveness of the genre as a vehicle for exploring contemporary issues. Whether in the form of fiction, film, short story, graphic novel or other mediums including television, this broad based genre has retained universal appeal. This text examines the reasons behind its enduring popularity, evaluating the themes and stylistic elements that have been retained as well as those that have changed in response to shifting societal views, values and ‘norms’.   Murder Most Foul                978-1-921586              $39.95         available NOW                 Forebears     stories from the British Empire 1850 to 1930 Edited by Ken Watson and Glenys Acland   Forebears follows on from Cousins (2008). It includes short stories from writers in countries of what was then the British Empire, from 1850 to 1930 - a period in which the short story developed as a recognizable form.    The writers, from  England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and India, include Wilkie Collins (1824-89)        - A Terribly Strange Bed  (1852) Charles Dickens (1812-1870)  -  The Signal Man (1866) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)  - The Nightingale and the Rose (1888) Price Warung (1855-1911)  - Lieutenant Darrell's Predicament (1892) Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) – The Speckled Band (1892) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)– A Matter of Fact  (1892) Henry Lawson (1867-1923) -  The Drover's Wife (1892) E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)  -  A Red Girl's Reasoning  (1893) H.G. Wells (1886-1946)-    The Red Room  (1894) Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916)  –    The Background (1910) Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) – Maddened by Mystery (1911) G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)  -  The Absence of Mr Glass (1912) William J. Locke (1863-1930) – The Adventure of the Kind Mr Smith (1912) James Joyce (1882-1941)   - Araby  (1914)  Rabindranath Tagore (1861- 1941)  - Housewife (1918) Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) – Miss Brill (1922) Alan Sullivan (1868-1947)     -  Trade (1926) D.H. Lawrence( 1885-1930) -  The Rocking-horse Winner  (1926) W. Somerset Maugham (1886-1952)  - The Verger (1929)   Forebears                                                    978-1-921586-02 6              $24.95         available NOW Forebears Teacher’s Resource Book      978-1-921586-00-3               $29.95         available NOW    Play on Bill: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Not that Dream Again!  Richard Baines   Play on Bill is a series of plays written for classroom and school performance, based on the plays of William Shakespeare.  Each play is essentially about a school performance of the Shakespeare play, with interactions between the actors in the school play, the backstage crew, the staff, and the roles in Shakespeare’s plays. Each play is an enjoyable drama in its own right, but has the added value of introducing students to some of the characters and better known scenes from Shakespeare’s plays. All plays have a large cast and can effectively involve the whole class. Not that Dream Again! Shakespeare is on the road. The players are Australia, just completing the Comeback Tour, which, says William, will be his ‘very last public appearance.’ The tour includes some of his best-known numbers, Much Ado, The Shrew,. It’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as pantomime, just the way Shakespeare intended it. The first folio text has been brought up to date with the addition of a couple of songs, dances and a few extra scenes. This, you might say, is the Director’s Cut. Unfortunately two of the original cast never made it past Canberra. Their disappearance is a mystery. No doubt they will turn up eventually as a couple of underworld operatives, merchant bankers or Independent senators. But tonight the cast will need a bit of help from the audience for this performance. Not that that is a problem for Shakespeare, who is M/C for the evening. He introduces the show, explains his craft and solves any problems of interruption, under rehearsal or inept staging.  Not that Dream Again     978 1 921586 32 3       $19.95     available NOW     Cassandra - and other monologues for girls  Richard Baines A monologue. One person alone on stage. This is a very specialized form of theatre, known to actors, preachers, Best Men and stand up comedians. It is also known to drama students. Here are twelve female voices. They cover a wide range. They are angry, confused and embarrassed. They are comic, pitying and strident. These are voices from modern day Australia, so there is a strong cross-cultural flavour evident. These monologues have mostly been developed from student discussions and concerns. Some of the pieces are harsh, others are lyrical, but all show problems facing today’s young people. The topics are universal: AIDS, rape, suicide, poor parenting, change, the difficulty of facing up to reality and the need for control. There is violence here. There is humour. If these pieces are melodramatic at times, well that is the way young folk see the world, and who is to say they are so far off the mark? Above all, monologues must work as theatre. Drama students know that the hardest thing about preparing a monologue is finding material that is relevant, that is complete in itself [as opposed to being sliced from a full length play] and that runs for a significant length of time.  Cassandra   978-1-921586-32-3     $26.95      Available now                            Imagination, Innovation, Creativity: Re-Visioning English in Education Editors: Jacqueline Manuel, Paul Brock, Wayne Sawyer, Don Carter   The writers in this book – from Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the United States - have been selected from across a spectrum of excellence in research, scholarship, policy-setting, and practical experience in English in Education. They are as one in their determination to reclaim and expand the richness and diversity of the subject English, as they are richly diverse in their own expertise in the field of English in Education. Their essays collectively stress the importance of reconnecting and re-engaging with what teachers love about English: its unique capacity to engage the mind, the spirit and the heart; to stimulate imagination, curiosity and creative capacities through meaningful immersion in the stories of humanity; and to enrich and develop students’ cognitive and affective command and understanding of language in all its expansive dimensions, contexts and purposes.   Available now      978-1-921586-19-4      $42.95  Poetry Peter, Skrzynecki ~Immigrant Chronicle, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, ‘St Patrick’s College’, ‘Ancestors’, ‘10 Mary Street’, ‘Migrant Hostel’, ‘Postcard’, ‘In the Folk Museum’ Steven Herrick   ~The Simple Gift Related Texts The Widower in the Country My Place Enter Without So Much as Knocking Originally Cob’s cartoons – schoolyard, old man High Noon Radiance The March of the Penguins The Ugly Duckling Poetry Peter, Skrzynecki ~Immigrant Chronicle, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, ‘St Patrick’s College’, ‘Ancestors’, ‘10 Mary Street’, ‘Migrant Hostel’, ‘Postcard’, ‘In the Folk Museum’ Steven Herrick   ~The Simple Gift Related Texts The Widower in the Country My Place Enter Without So Much as Knocking Originally Cob’s cartoons – schoolyard, old man High Noon Radiance The March of the Penguins The Ugly Duckling   The School of Arts Performance Edition The Hypochondriac Exit the King Language through Film The English Teacher's Handbook A to Z Exam Preparation Guide: Belonging Navigating Flinders Play on Bill: Macbeth Play on Bill: Romeo and Juliet Pieces - from acclaimed Australian novels Into Reading Books 1 and 2 Exploring Genre: Science fiction Exploring Genre and style: Romanticism