Animal

Subject: English Literature
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 14 - 16
Order Number: 5115

This booklet is just 'animal' prose from other cultures and other places.

The animals include dogs, horses, sheep, birds, fish, a porcupine, a giraffe, a python, birds, jungle animals, alligators, a tiger, a squirrel, a donkey and a cat. They eat, are eaten, talk, suffer as performing animals, as pets and more. They also protect humans, are selfish, are anthropomorphised, watched, killed etc. The authors range from Henry Lawson, to Saki, to the totally obscure!

The cultures of these texts are -

• Australian
• Samoan/South Pacific
• South African
• African
• New Guinean
• American (USA)
• South American
• Indian
• French
• Japanese

The texts are six complete short stories, one edited story, two novel extracts, one essay (an introduction to a novel) and two extracts from travel literature so this range also allows the material to be used for generic comparison. Following the texts are comprehension questions and often further activities including ICT, story writing, a poem, issues work, quotations for discussion etc.

This booklet is designed to help students understand more about the literature and culture of other societies. It is important that students read beyond their own culture as this should help discourage racism and they are required to do such reading for the GCSE.

Given the subject matter, this booklet also provides excellent support for work on Animal Rights! It's also worth noting that, as the contents are self contained, the material can be used for emergency, non-specialist cover. It's a great addition for the overworked Head of Department!

Four books in one: a multi-cultural study text, a generic comparison text, an issues text and an emergency cover lesson text.