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Schools Conference: 2015

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (James Robertson)

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the National 5 Teaching Note on Kidnapped.

Click here for the Scotnote study guide Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Catriona.

Click here to read Christopher MacLachlan’s article ‘A Teller of Tales: Further Thoughts on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped‘, published in ScotLit 38/39.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song (Dr Scott Lyall)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song.

Click here to read Isobel Murray’s paper ‘Gibbon’s Chris: A Celebration with Some Reservations’, written for the James Leslie Mitchell Centenary Conference 2001.

John Byrne’s The Slab Boys (Dr Morna Fleming)

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the Higher Teaching Note on The Slab Boys.

Click here to read Edwin Morgan’s paper ‘James Bridie’s The Anatomist and John Byrne’s The Slab Boys‘, presented at an ASLS conference in 1987.

Cross-over Scottish Texts at National 5 and Higher (Carolyn Cunningham)

The Poetry of Edwin Morgan (Professor James McGonigal)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide The Poetry of Edwin Morgan.

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the P6-S2 Teaching Note on ‘The First Men in Mercury’ and the S4-S6 Teaching Note on Aspects of Edwin Morgan.

Click here to read Gavin Wallace’s article ‘New Currency or Old? – “The Coin”, by Edwin Morgan’, published in The Bottle Imp 2.

Click here to read Hamish Whyte’s article ‘The Milk of Space’, about Morgan’s science-fiction poems, published in The Bottle Imp 8.

Anne Donovan discusses her own short stories (Anne Donovan)