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Schools Conference: 2019

The papers presented at this Schools Conference were recorded by Education Scotland. The videos below can also be viewed on the Education Scotland YouTube page.

Contemporary Teenage Fiction (Maureen Farrell)

Stories in Scots for S1-S3 (James Robertson)

  • Click here for ASL Free Publications, including The Mannie & Ither Stories by James Robertson.
  • Click here for ASL Teaching Units, including the Prose Fiction Teaching Unit for Level 3 (end of BGE) for ‘The Mannie’ and ‘The Deil’.

The Cone Gatherers and other novels by Robin Jenkins
(Ann MacKinnon)

  • Click here for the Scotnote study guide Robin Jenkins’s The Cone-Gatherers.
  • Click here for ASL Teaching Notes, including the Higher/Advanced Higher Teaching Note for Matthew and Sheila by Robin Jenkins.

Edwin Morgan’s translation of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac
(Professor John Corbett)

  • Click here for the Scotnote study guide Edwin Morgan’s Cyrano de Bergerac: a new verse translation

Rona Munro’s Bold Girls and other plays (Dr Gillian Sargent)

  • Click here for the Scotnote study guide Rona Munro’s Bold Girls
  • Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the National 5 Teaching Note for Bold Girls
  • Click here to read Douglas Gifford’s article ‘Making Them Bold and Breaking the Mould: Rona Munro’s Bold Girls‘, published in Laverock 2

Launch of Voices of Scotland: Scottish Poetry for Levels 2 and 3
(Dr Morna Fleming)

  • Click here for Voices of Scotland: Scottish Poetry for Levels 2 and 3.