Mr Darwin's Shooter

McDonald, Roger

Atlantic Monthly Press

Slipstream

Little,Brown

University of Queensland Press

Nineteen Fifteen

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Univ of Queensland Pr

From one of Australia’s most acclaimed authors, a dazzling and deeply imagined exploration of ambition, natural marvels, and scientific discovery, and one of history’s most significant crises of faith. As a boy of thirteen, Syms Covington leaves his home in Bedford and goes to sea, passing into manhood as he sails the world, surveying Patagonia, and losing his virginity in the Pampas. Aboard the HMS Beagle, he enters the service of Charles Darwin as an energetic and precocious fifteen-year-old, and in the course of their voyages together he shoots and collects hundreds of specimens for his gent,” specimens that become fundamental to the formulation of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Now a crusty, eccentric, near-deaf old man, Covington has settled in Australia and is awaiting the arrival of the first copy of On the Origin of Species. Beset by guilt over participating in a work that will shake the human worldview to its foundations, he nonetheless wonders what part of himself might be reflected in Darwin’s oeuvre. Mr. Darwin’s Shooter captures its time with rare and dazzling skill, evoking an unforgettablebut forgottenman at a watershed moment in history.

Mr. Darwin's Shooter: A Novel

United States

GROVE PRESS

Billy MacKenzie and Walter Gilchrist, friends possessing vastly different temperaments, are bound together by their childhood ties and by their love for Australia which causes them to enlist in the army in 1915, leaving behind two girls forced into womanhood by their decisions

1915: A Novel

George Braziller

Chronicles the life of Syms Covington--a fifteen-year-old boy who becomes Charles Darwin's shooter and collector of specimens--from his early maritime adventures with evangelical sailor John Phipps to his later years as he awaits his copy of The Origin of the Species and ponders his part in altering the way the world thinks. 40,000 first printing.

Mr. Darwin's Shooter

Genre Fiction

Atlantic Monthly Pr

The Really Useful Drama Book

The Really Useful Drama Book offers busy primary school teachers a collection of step-by-step drama sessions, inspired by high-quality picturebooks, that will engage children and promote enjoyable learning across the curriculum.   Lively and thoughtful, the interactive drama sessions are structured around a wide range of texts, including wordless picturebooks, postmodern picturebooks, short stories, well-known texts by recognisable authors and some you may not have come across before, all chosen for their power to foster curiosity. The step-by-step sessions can also be adapted to incorporate your own ideas and passions, allowing you to structure them for the topics you’re exploring with your class.   Each session is structured around two texts and offers a guide to the drama strategies used, teaching objectives, ideas for writing opportunities, problems, emotions and challenges to explore, and a clear guide to exploring each text. Ten key themes are explored:   Suspense   Prejudice   Friendship   Rhyme and rhythm   War and conflict   Nature    Overcoming fear   Possessions and obsessions   Dreams   Short stories  With a focus on the crucial role of imagination in the classroom, The Really Useful Drama Book helps reclaim a purposeful, passionate pedagogy and shows teachers how drama can place children right at the heart of a story, encouraging their desire to ask questions, solve problems and search out new information.

The Really Useful Drama Book: Using Picturebooks to Inspire Imaginative Learning

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Jumpstart! Drama: Games and Activities for Ages 5-11

Jumpstart! Drama contains more than forty engaging, practical, easy-to-do and highly motivating drama activities which will appeal to busy primary teachers who wish to enliven their practice and make more use of drama in line throughout their teaching.  Suitable for use across a variety of subjects and for a wide range of learning styles, the book introduces teaching practitioners to a range of drama conventions and demonstrates how to use them in the primary classroom. Organised in five clear parts, this new edition of Jumpstart! Drama covers the following topics:   The relationship and link between drama and literacy Analysing both fiction and non-fiction texts through drama conventions Exploring poetry through drama conventions Developing role play and learning through imaginary worlds    With all activities connected to well-known texts, this fully updated second edition now reflects picturebooks and novels published in the last five years, and is ideal for busy primary teachers who wish to encourage their pupils in drama using texts in a dramatic and motivating way.

Cremin, Teresa

Longley, Emma

Blakemore, Louise

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