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Shakespeare

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 Devon Curriculum English Resources
on DVD and audio
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Study Guides  (please note, these are study guides, not performances)

1. To Kill a Mockingbird                     DVD £42.90


Filmed on location in author's home town Monroeville, Alabama.   Placing the author at the centre of the study, the video contains interviews with friends and associates of Harper Lee plus extracts from a staged performance in the Monroeville courthouse.    The novel is vividly explored through discussions with local residents and pupils.   Running time 60 minutes

 
See Classic DVD page for the feature film of this title - plus many more!
2. A View From the Bridge               DVD £42.90

Filmed on location in New York and containing interviews with the present generation of Italian-Americans who discuss the social, cultural and historical issues within the play.  
Running time 60 minutes     
(N B. - No other video or DVD of this title is available)

3.   Of Mice and Men                         DVD £42.90

Combines a series of teaching activities using professional actors, improvisation and
character discussion to gain understanding of the characters.    An introductory section
on the social/historic/cultural context was filmed in California and contains archive
material plus interviews with Steinbeck scholars.

 


AQA Anthology
Simon Armitage and the pre-1914 Bank of Poems.  
Simon Armitage reads his own poems and talks at length about his works and the pre-1914 works.   60 minutes                    DVD £42.90
Seamus Heaney and the pre-1914 Bank of Poems.   
Matthew Sweeney reads the Heaney selection and talks about the links with the pre-1914 bank.   60 minutes                     DVD £42.90
The pre-1914 Poems on audio CD.  
The complete selection read by Ben Crystal.    45 minute CD  £16.90.
 


Poems From Different Cultures.
  
Many of them read and analysed by the poets themselves.   Peter Thomas, GCSE Principal Examiner, provides revision pointers.
1. Cluster 1  - (approx 90 minutes)    DVD  £42.90
Limbo (Braithwaite)  Nothing's Changed (Afrika)  Island Man (Nichols)  Blessing (Dharker)
Two Scavengers in a Truck (Ferlinghetti)  Night of the Scorpion (Ezekiel) 
Vulture (Achebe)  What Were They Like  (Levertov)
2. Cluster 2  - (approx 90 minutes)    DVD  £42.90
Unrelated Incidents (Leonard)  Half-Caste (Agard)  Love After Love (Walcott)
This Room  (Dharker)   Not My Business (Osundare)  Hurricane Hits England (Nichols)
Presents From My Aunt (Alvi)   Search For My Tongue (Bhatt)
3   Both DVDs:  Cluster 1 and  Cluster 2     £58.75
Poems From Different Cultures on audio CD
The complete selection    45 minute CD  £16.90.
Children's Comics & Magazine.      Media  Studies.  DVD  £42.90
Style, design and market.   Business of Publishing.  Graphic design.  Interviews with
staff responsible for Barbie, Hotwheels and Thomas the Tank Engine.   Interviews
with the customers, age 5-9.   Historical context.   Set of teaching ideas plus a
free CD-Rom.
Local Radio.     Media  Studies.          DVD  £42.90
Local Radio.     Media  Studies.          DVD  £42.90
To support the teaching of the Controlled Test topic (sounds a mite Orwellian) on local and community radio.   Running time 60 minutes and based on Gemini FM.   Covers audience issues, local news, scheduling, music policy, advertising and sales.
Includes 40pp information pack.         
Poem: Image: Film.                            DVD plus book  £52.90
A KS3 resource providing a lively and innovative way to link poetry to the moving
image.   Uses a range of pre-1914 poems plus a selection of poems from different
cultures thus providing a link to the KS4 course.   Running time 100 minutes.

("An innovative value-for-money publication"   English Drama Media Magazine

Approaches to Drama-Focused EN1.        DVD  £42.90
Offers a series of practical teaching activities to help teachers and students improve
the quality of their role play.    Also contains ideas for teaching poetry through a
a drama-based approach and some schemes of work for Shakespeare and 20th century
drama.     Running time 60 minutes.
Crafting Poetry.    Original Writing for GCSE    DVD  £42.90
A  lively presentation by poet Phil Bowen.   Includes a a booklet of teaching ideas by
teacher/poet/examiner Mike Ferguson.   The emphasis is on "crafting writing of
different types".     Running time 50 minutes

Why not visit our Shakespeare page - we stock ALL the BBC classic titles, and many more

 

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