
Who We Are
A Citizenship Collection
Geoff Barton(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 4. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-521-70315-4 (ISBN)
Description
An eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, articles and autobiography exploring what it is to be human and examining the challenges we face as global citizens. This collection is designed to link with Citizenship and PSHE issues, such as identity, rights, responsibilities and tradition. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: Growing pains; Letting go; Facing the world; Britain in the past and The world about us. The collection includes texts by Maya Angelou, Arthur C. Clarke, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively and Roger McGough.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-70315-4 (9780521703154)
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Content
1. Growing pains: Clara's Day, Penelope Lively; Sliding, Leslie Norris; Taming the Tiger, Tony Anthony; I Wish I Were . . ., Rabindranath Tagore; I Was Left with a Childcarer . . . and Never Collected, Barbara Brown; Activities; 2. Letting go: My Best Teacher, Vic Reeves; The Secret Life of Snap Decisions, Malcolm Gladwell; The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde; An African Elegy, Ben Okri; I Found Love at the Supermarket Checkout, Tom Hill; Warning to Children, Robert Graves; Activities; 3. Facing the world: If, Rudyard Kipling; Through the Tunnel, Doris Lessing; Almost Drowning, Richard Branson; The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky, Ken Dornstein; Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth; My Mam's Death, Samantha Studley; Activities; 4. Britain in the past: The Year 1000, Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger; Down the Mine, George Orwell; The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; MCMXIV, Philip Larkin; The Roses of No Man's Land, Lyn MacDonald; Not My Best Side, U. A. Fanthorpe; Activities; 5. The world about us: The Destructors, Graham Greene; We Are Going to See the Rabbit, Alan Brownjohn; Song of the Battery Hen, Edwin Brock; Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone, Adam Hart-Davis and Paul Bader; Hunger, Laurence Binyon; Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser; Facts to Change the World, Jessica Williams; Somebody's Watching You, Alexandra Campbell; Televised, Maya Angelou; The Fish Are All Sick, Anne Stevenson; The Lake, Roger McGough; Before Eden, Arthur C. Clarke; Activities; Notes on authors.