This photocopiable book is full of innovative user friendly exciting & unusual activities that promote creative thinking & problem solving skills in upper KS2. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year
- at the end of term (particularly after SATs in Year 6) at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different' to make pupils think 'outside the box'. The challenges in this book make an exciting change from the strictly subject-based lessons & would be ideal for supply teachers or LSAs. All the activities have been tried & tested in the classroom many times by the author who is an experienced teacher.
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' My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday I don't know.' Sandra Smith's new translation based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954 sensitively renders the subtleties & dream-like atmosphere of L' Etranger. In The Outsider" (1942) his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault his anti-hero will not lie. When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. & when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society & the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd & revolting against the injustice of society depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world. Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist essayist & playwright is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works include " The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942) " The Plague" (1947) " The Just" (1949) " The Rebel" (1951) & " The Fall" (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for " Literature" in 1957 & his last novel " The First Man" unfinished at the time of his death appeared in print for the first time in 1994 & was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton. Sandra Smith was born & raised in New York City & is a Fellow of Robinson College University of Cambridge where she teaches French Literature & Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize." ...

The first volume of Brian Sewell's scandalous & haunting memoir was met by riotous applause in the press. ' Outsider is a delicious read.. .I want more
- much more ' wrote Rachel Cooke in the Guardian. ' This book records an extraordinary life & will I hope soon be continued ' added Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times. Outsider II will certainly not disappoint. With the first instalment ending tantalisingly in 1967
- after exploring Sewell's childhood adolescence & early adulthood
- this next chapter charts his path to becoming as the Spectator noted ' Surely the funniest art critic of our time.'


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A peerless work of philosophical fiction that is as shocking today as when it was first published the Penguin Modern Classics" edition of Albert Camus' " The Outsider" is translated by Joseph Laredo. Meursault will not pretend. After the death of his mother everyone is shocked when he shows no sadness. & when he commits a random act of violence in Algiers society is baffled. Why would this seemingly law-abiding bachelor do such a thing? & why does he show no remorse even when it could save his life? His refusal to satisfy the feelings of others only increases his guilt in the eyes of the law. Soon Meursault discovers that he is being tried not simply for his crime but for his lack of emotion
- a reaction that condemns him for being an outsider. For Meursault this is an insult to his reason & a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life. In " The Outsider" ("L' Etranger") his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the predicament of the individual who refuses to pretend & is prepared to face the indifference of the universe courageously & alone. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is the author of a number of best-selling & highly influential works all of which are published by Penguin. They include " The Fall" " The Outsider" & " The First Man". Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France but beyond that his fame has been international. If you enjoyed " The Outsider" you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's " Nausea" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". "A compelling dreamlike fable". (" Guardian"). " The story of a beach murder one of the century's classic novels. " Blood & sand"". (J. G. Ballard " Daily Telegraph")."
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Aloof solitary impassive the crack goalie is followed in the streets by entranced small boys. He vies with the matador & the flying aces an object of thrilled adulation. He is the lone eagle the man of mystery the last defender. Nabokov (quoted here) Camus Sir Arthur Conan Doyle James Joyce even Julian Barnes.. .its safe to say the goalkeeper hasnt always been a team player. In THE OUTSIDER Jonathan Wilson traces the sometimes dangerous intellectual & literary preoccupations of the keeper & looks at how the position has secured a certain existential cool as well as taking a deep tactical & technical look at the history of goalkeeping. There has been the odd minor work on goalkeeping in the past but nothing like this in scope or depth. ...

Listed in the Sunday Times ' Books of the Year' & Daily Mail ' Biographies for Christmas 2011' Outsider is the life of a child boy adolescent student & young man in London between the Great Depression of the 30s & the sudden prosperity & social changes of the 60s affected by the moral attitudes of the day by the Blitz post-war austerity & the new freedoms of the later 50s that were resisted with such obstinacy by the old regime. It is about education in the almost forgotten sense of the pursuit of learning for its own sake. It is about the imposed experiences of school & National Service & the chosen experience of being a student at the Courtauld Institute under Johannes Wilde & Anthony Blunt. It is about sex pre-pubertal in adolescence & in early adulthood & the price to be paid for it. It is about art & the art market in the turbulent years of its change from the pursuit of well-connected gentleman to the professional occupation of experts. ...

Geordan Murphy does not come from the leafy suburbs of south Dublin or the rugby hotbeds of Limerick or Cork. As a teenager he played Gaelic football for Kildare minors. But his greatest love & his true genius was for rugby. Now nearing the end of a career that has seen him win over seventy Ireland caps
- a number that a great many supporters & pundits believe should be considerably higher
- & attain the captaincy of the top English club Leicester Geordan Murphy tells his own story for the first time. A delightful read...brilliant". (Rugby World). " Bright breezy entertaining & revealing". (Gerry Thornley " Irish Times"). " An open honest & entertaining book". ("RTE Guide")."

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Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game. A shaggy-haired working-class kid from the wrong side of the tracks he was prepared to battle for every point to shout & scream until he was heard & he didn't care whom he upset in doing so. He was brash he was a brat. He was a crowd-pleaser a revolutionary. & he won more tournaments
- an astonishing 109
- than any other man in history including eight Grand Slam singles titles. Only now is Connors ready to set the record straight on what really happened on & off the court. The rivalry with John Mc Enroe that frequently threatened to turn violent. His romance with Chris Evert which made them the sweethearts of the sport. The escapades with his partner in crime Ilie Nastase. The deep roots of the fierce determination that made him the best player on the planet. This is no genteel memoir of a pillar of the tennis establishment. Unflinching hard-hitting humorous & passionate this is the story of the one & only Jimmy Connors.

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The Outsiders by S E Hinton is a ground-breaking timeless story by a brilliant writer. '...the hand at the back of my neck was strong. I'm drowning I thought.. .' The Socs' idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy. Ponyboy knows what to expect & knows he can count on his brothers & friends
- until the night someone takes things too far. The original teenage rebel story. The 40th anniversary edition. S. E. Hinton was only seventeen when The Outsiders was first published in the USA. She grew up in Tulsa Oklahoma where the story takes place & lived in a borderline neighbourhood mixing with both greasers & socs. This experience helped her to understand the boys about whom she writes. The Outsiders was made into a major film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. S.E. Hinton went on to write several novels for teenagers including: Tex Rumble Fish & That Was Then This Is Now. Married with one son S.E. Hinton was the first recipient of the American Library Association's YASD/SLJ Award for her oustanding contribution to Young Adult Literature.
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Winnie Monks has never forgotten
- or forgiven
- the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army

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