Screenwriter and teacher Chris Tugwell draws on more than 20 years of industry experience to guide you through a revolutionary step-by-step approach to an age-old problem - uncovering your story's own singular shape. Tugwell helps free you from the tyranny of the three act structure and reveals the real shape that is hidden within your own story. This guide also shows you how to use that shape to create your own powerful and unique screenplay.

The selection provides extracts from 13 plays in total, many by famous writers such as Nobel Laureates, Nigerian playwright, Wole Soyinka (Death and the King's Horseman) and St Lucia playwright, Derek Walcott (Ti-Jean and his Brothers). Extracts have been selected for their social, political, historical and literary significance, and also because of their gripping themes related to moral and physical dilemmas. Includes background information on the play texts with a detailed synopsis of the entire play, writing and performing activities on individual plays and groups of plays and notes on the playwrights. 

A perrenial favourite for students aged 15 and up, English Essentials has been revised and expanded for students who want to write as clearly and powerfully as they can. Written in an engaging style, English Essentials tackles the basics of English, including how to:

• Master sentences and use correct grammar
• Punctuate effectively
• Develop consistently good spelling
• Write creatively
• Write cogent essays
• Use drafting and proofreading to improve your work
• Understand the whole writing process

As a student focused text, book 2 privileges student experience, creative engagement with texts, moments of reflection and opportunities for deep thinking. Drawing on an inquiry model of learning, it provides opportunities for students to write and create their texts, as they develop their knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of a host of literary and non-literary text forms. Book 2:

• Focuses on the importance of visual literacy.
• Extends language skills at word, sentence and text level, with activities in reading, writing, viewing, creating, listening and speaking.
• Encourages student writing across a variety of contexts, for a variety of purposes and for a variety of audiences.
• Provides opportunities for students to create their own multimodal texts.

Contains the essential knowledge and skills for successful English studies, including:

• Five sections convering the key areas of English, from the foundations of grammar to the skills of analysing literature and the media
• Numerous examples on a wide range of interesting topics showing how to apply the rules and conventions of grammar and punctuation
• Practical tips and guidelines for learning rules, developing vocabulary and building writing skills.

Supports teachers in acquiring knowledge about texts, communication technologies and how they design and re-design text.  Each chapter includes 'Theory into practice' whereby the content of the literacy curriculum may be investigated, explored and developed.  This book successfully guides the teacher in assisting the 21st century learner through the complexity of multimodal texts, knowledge and interrationships.

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The changing face of satire over time as well as the conventions and techniques have been examined in a wide range of texts to explore the many reasons behind the enduring popularity of satire. Recurring themes and stylistic elements are evaluated alongside changing historical, social and literacy context and shifting societal views, values and 'norms'. Provides in-depth analysis and activities the help students critcally evaluate, interpret and articulate their understanding of representative texts.

A range of appropriate texts have been selected that seek to demonstrate the changing face of war over time. Detailed analysis of the conventions, themes, techniques and contextual impact has been provided to help teachers develop and deepen student understanding, critical evaluation and personal interpretation. What such texts demonstrate is that ultimately there are no winners in any war for despite the specific campaign or the weapons uses, war stains all participants in the horror and suffering it unleashes.

An hilarious selection of poems by the iconic Australian humorist featuring Doreen, The Play and The Stones of Gosh as read by actor Jack Thompson.

Literacy experts and longtime classroom teachers Michael Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm provide important principles, fresh perspectives, and engaging methods for teaching grammar and usage in the context of students' own writing. The book addresses how an individual teacher might teach correctness more successfully as well as how an entire school or department can work together. Wilhelm and Smith offer detailed advice and lessons on these critical issues:

• How to identify which terms students need to know
• Which errors matter most, and how to analyse the causes of errors
• How to teach deeply through activites that help students inquire into the effects of language use and see why what they're learning matters in the here and now