Schools Conference: 2020 – Association for Scottish Literature

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.

Scots Language and Culture in the Curriculum (Dr Maureen Farrell)

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the P5-S6 Teaching Note for Scottish Languages.

Scots Language and Culture in the Curriculum 2 (Professor Alan Riach)

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the P5-S6 Teaching Note for Scottish Languages.

Edwin Morgan: a poet of international stature (Professor Alan Riach)

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

Click here for the Scotnote study guide The Poetry 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.

James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Dr Morna Fleming)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Click here for the ASL Free Publications, including the PDF of The Devil I Am Sure: Three short stories by James Hogg.

The Gaelic Poetry of Derick Thomson (Dr Emma Dymock)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide The Gaelic Poetry of Derick Thomson.

Click here to read Meg Bateman’s paper ‘Gaelic Poetry for English Classes’, written for the 1994 ASLS Schools Conference.

Scottish Nature/Ecology Literature (Dr Cheryl Simpson)

Click here to read The Bottle Imp Issue 17: Ecology and Scottish Writing.

Young Adult Scottish Fiction (Martin Stewart)

Click here to read Lauren Murray’s review of Riverkeep by Martin Stewart, published in The Bottle Imp 20.