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Welcome to the October issue of Book Nook’s newsletter - with a minor focus on Shakespeare.
Karen Wighton has reviewed three more exciting new Australian plays, a curriculum-focused Romeo & Juliet, and two teaching texts.
We’ve focused a bit on Shakespeare - what teachers ask for, and what’s popular - and graphic novels as tools for teaching shakespeare and other texts. Follow the links to read more...
NOTE: Throughout the newsletter, click on the title of the article or play for further detail on that topic.
William Shakespeare
The Chandos portrait,
artist and authenticity unconfirmed.
National Portrait Gallery, London.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has completed a process of curriculum shaping and extensive public consultation feedback, resulting in the release of the Paper, The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts which outlines the direction for the development of the national Arts curriculum for years K-12. Curriculum writers will begin their work in writing the Australian Curriculum from October 2011.
Further information on the development of the national Arts curriculum, including the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts paper, and a proposed timeline, can be viewed on the ACARA website.
Consider the relevance of some of the texts reviewed in Book Nook Notes in this newsletter to the ideas presented in Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, August 2011.
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We’ve decided to have a focus in this issue on the ever popular Bard.
Shakespeare’s plays are perennially popular but from time to time there are new publications designed to engage new audiences. We will highlight for you some exciting new offerings as well as some of the popular classic editions.
- No Fear Shakespeare
- RSC Shakespeare
- Arden Shakespeare
- Riverside Shakespeare
- Insight Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Glossary
- Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary
- ...and more
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English literature sensitively, carefully and faithfully transformed into stunning - and award-winning - graphic novels!
Each Shakespeare title is available in three different text versions (Original Text, Plain Text, and Quick Text), all using the same wonderful full colour artwork.
‘... many students have literacy issues ... having a range of textual levels is useful as [they] can see the same pictures as their friends but as they gain confidence, can move onto the more complex text and eventually to the actual Shakespeare’ - Linda Lorenza, Head of Education, The Bell Shakespeare Company
Titles include (with more being produced):
- Macbeth
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Tempest
- Henry V
- Jane Eyre
- Frankenstein
- A Christmas Carol
- Great Expectations
- The Canterville Ghost
- Wuthering Heights
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