Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy's
post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text for
use in English at Key Stage 4. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction and the the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize
Theron won praise for its faithful rendering of the novel's dystopian
vision. 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, each book in the
series: meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010) 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. The
Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world
disaster has left the earth barren and hostile. It follows a father
and son as they struggle to survive in a landscape where men either
starve or join the marauding gangs of cannibals. Readers are advised
that there are some scenes of a disturbing nature.
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ISBN
9781472539359
Publisert
2015
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Methuen Drama
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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