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Sunsong is a graded course intended for use in the first three years of secondary school. The course aims to teach students to interpret poems, and encourages them to enjoy the depth of meaning in poetry without detracting from their enjoyment.
A Jamaican journalist and poet publishes a collection of piercing poems, none of which are younger than ten years old, dedicated to his late mother, Grace Walker Gordon, teacher, lecturer, poet and grammar text( New Junior English Revised) writer. Gordon is a member of a pioneering home-schooled family in Jamaica. His insights have come through years spent not only in homeschool but also working in media, the prisons, and spent in intense research. The age of the poems do nothing to detract from the pungency of their message. Gordon is a prodigal son, with a wealth of experience. Here's to coming home. The words, Son, Dont Walk in my Footsteps, were his mothers last words to him before dying.
This invaluable book contains need-to-know lists of literay terms such as synonyms, proverbs, and idioms which every student should know before leaving Junior School.
New Caribbean Junior Readers follow on from the infant readers (New Caribbean Readers 1-3B). They use the same successful systematic and graded approach and are suitable for children with reading ages of 7 to 11.* Easy-to-explain questions and language exercises accompany each story - no additional teacher's preparation is needed.* Notes for teachers at the end of each book include more suggestions for activities and assessment.* A stimulating variety of texts enable children to develop their understanding and skills in reading and criticising literature.There are five books in the New Caribbean Junior Readers series. The authors are Pamela Mordecai, Grace Walker Gordon, Peggy Campbell and Diane Brown.
New Caribbean Junior English has been fully revised and updated to provide an integrated approach to language arts. The new edition of this popular and well established course retains well-loved material from the previous edition and * has clearly laid out pages to make the books more accessible and easy to use, * is colourful, lively and attractive to appeal to children of all abilities, * includes new material reflecting life in the Caribbean to stimulate and engage children, * features vibrant and appealing illustrations by Caribbean artists, * contains cross-curricular content to provide a truly integrated course that reinforces learning in other curriculum areas, such as social studies and science, * offers a wide range of activities to help children develop their reading and writing skills. Further support for teachers is provided at the end of each book and our website at www.caribbeanschools.co.uk
Expanding on the previous Sunsong 1, 2 and 3 books, this work offers a poetry anthology from around the world. Divided into themes, it includes story poems, humorous poems and rhythmic poems for choral orchestration. It also offers a short biography for each poet and one poem in each section is followed by questions. A sample critical appreciation is also included to guide students.
A fearless collection by a trailblazing writer whose poems “represent the people, culture, and topography of the Caribbean in multidimensional, complex ways” (Tanya Shirley) A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection Journey Poem published in 1989, to the moving elegy for her murdered brother in the true blue of islands, to the stories of freed slaves told in subversive sonnets, and on to her dazzling reimaginings of biblical stories, A Fierce Green Place highlights the astounding range and depths of a poet who mixes Jamaican Creole with standard English, profanity and reverence with dub and blues, the oral and vernacular with metrical virtuosity. Mordecai’s words, written out of a “womb-space” of sound and power, shine through neo-colonial violence and patriarchy with such lines as: “Women together / in one place will / bleed in solidarity / till every last body / turn super bitch at once."
New Caribbean Junior English has been fully revised and updated to provide an integrated approach to language arts. The new edition of this popular and well established course retains well-loved material from the previous edition and * has clearly laid out pages to make the books more accessible and easy to use, * is colourful, lively and attractive to appeal to children of all abilities, * includes new material reflecting life in the Caribbean to stimulate and engage children, * features vibrant and appealing illustrations by Caribbean artists, * contains cross-curricular content to provide a truly integrated course that reinforces learning in other curriculum areas, such as social studies and science, * offers a wide range of activities to help children develop their reading and writing skills. Further support for teachers is provided at the end of each book and our website at www.caribbeanschools.co.uk
The revised series offers:* A new pre-reader which provides activities to develop visual and mental skills* Revised Readers 1, 2, 3a and 3b which contain extensive improved notes for teachers* Entirely new workbooks 1, 2 and 3, which relate to the readers and offer training in phonics, comprehension and other important reading skills.The New Caribbean Readers series consists in:Pre-readerBook 1Book 2Book 3aBook 3bWorkbook 1Workbook 2Workbook 3The authors of this series are P. Mordecai, G. Walker Gordon, D. Brown and D. Clark.
Taking as its starting-point the ambiguous heritage left by the British Empire to its former colonies, dominions and possessions, And the Birds Began to Sing marks a new departure in the interdisciplinary study of religion and literature. Gathered under the rubric Christianity and Colonialism, essays on Brian Moore. Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood and Marian Engel, Thomas King, Les A. Murray, David Malouf, Mudrooroo and Philip McLaren, R.A.K. Mason, Maurice Gee, Keri Hulme, Epeli Hau'ofa, J.M. Coetzee, Christopher Okigbo, Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Ngugi wa Thiong'o explore literary portrayals of the effects of British Christianity upon settler and native cultures in Northern Ireland, ...