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1. quietfireworks.blog › 2020/06/23 › the-promise-ks2The Promise: KS2 (+) teaching suggestions – Quiet Fireworks

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   Jun 23, 2020 · You can download a PDF full of suggestions for exploring the text in class using the link below. This resource offers a range of prompts to support you in exploring the interplay between illustration and text in individual spreads, or across the book.

2. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Promise by Damon Galgut - Goodreads

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   Apr 6, 2021 · The Promise, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral.

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3. www.teachingenglish.org.uk › promiseThe Promise | TeachingEnglish | British Council

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   • Introduction
   • Information About The Teaching Notes
   • Story-Based Methodology
   • The Promise by Nicola Davies
   • Other Resources in The Series

   The lesson notes and student activities for this picturebook have been developed by Gail Ellis and Tatia Gruenbaum. This lesson is part of a series of four plans that each address the theme of hardship and resilience. The picturebooks that have been chosen for this lesson series discuss social issues such as experiencing homelessness, relying on fo...

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   In order to offer teachers clear guidance and a comprehensive overview of each picturebook, the notes have been divided into four parts A - D. See below for more information.

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   The lessons are informed by a story-based methodology (Ellis and Brewster, 1991; 2014) and a story-based e-methodology for video picturebook read-alouds (Ellis and Gruenbaum, 2023). In addition, the lessons are embedded in a children’s rights perspective and comprises three categories: protection, provision and participation. This threefold categor...

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   Publisher's synopsis

   On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But the frail old woman says the thief can’t have it without giving something in return: the promise. It is the beginning of a journey that will change the girl’s life — and a chance to change the world, for good.

   Age and level

   This lesson is suitable for use with secondary learners with a pre-intermediate level of English and beyond.

   Lesson objectives

   The general learning objectives for each lesson are to empower pupils to: 1. engage with social issues as presented through picturebooks to broaden their outlook of marginalised groups in society 2. develop English language skills 3. develop critical thinking 4. raise awareness and understanding of the UNCRC and of their rights and responsibilities 5. understand the importance of individuals and the community showing kindness 6. make responsible decisions when taking action in order to make a...

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   Click or tap on the title to go to the resources. It's a No-Money Day - Picturebook lesson for primary-aged learners A gentle, poignant and powerful exploration of foodbanks and life below the poverty line. Still a Family - Picturebook lesson for primary-aged learners A little girl and her parents have lost their home and must live in a homeless sh...

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4. books.google.com › books › aboutThe Promise - Nicola Davies - Google Books

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   Jun 15, 2021 · On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But the frail old woman says the thief can’t have it without giving something in return: the promise. It...

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5. books.google.com › books › aboutThe Promise - Damon Galgut - Google Books

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   The Promise. Damon Galgut. Chatto & Windus, 2021 - Fiction - 293 pages. **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** 'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and...

6. thebookerprizes.com › books › the-promiseThe Promise - The Booker Prizes

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   Jun 17, 2021 · The Promise won the Booker Prize in 2021. Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut’s deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land.

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   Is the promise a good book?

   • Reading Aloud The Promise is beautifully written. Read it aloud to yourself, perhaps a couple of times, and experiment with its phrasing. The book does provide you with direction, but there’s space to shift this emphasis or that. It stands strong as a written text in its own right.

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   Is the promise a family book?

   • Read the full interview here. ‘ The Promise is an expansive family novel that explores the interconnected relationships between members of one family through the sequential lens of multiple funerals. Death assumes here both a closing but also an opening into lives lived.

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   Does the promise have any writing opportunities?

   • The Promise has its own promises to keep: the simple pleasure of reading; the space for individual response and reflection. As to writing opportunities, there are so many. Having explored the book in depth, it may well be the case that your young readers will be full of inspiration and will have plenty to say in terms of their own writing outcomes.

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   What does the promise tell us about Damon Galgut?

   • ‘Damon Galgut’s remarkable new novel, The Promise, suggests that the demands of history and the answering cry of the novel can still powerfully converge. As a white South African writer, Galgut inherits a subject that must feel, at different times, liberating in its dimensions and imprisoning in its inescapability […]

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   What can you do with the promise?

   • Here the illustrator of The Promise loosely guides her reader through the increasingly inventive ways by which they might reinvent their local environment, taking the everyday and making it unreal. Photography, art equipment, and materials suitable for collage can be used to create all kinds of idealised, fantastical landscapes.

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   Are there planning ideas based on Nicola Davies & Laura Carlin's fable 'The Promise'?

   • Following my last blog I received a number of requests for the planning ideas that I mentioned, based on Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin’s powerful fable The Promise. Before reading on, you may want to watch Nicola Davies talk about the book, the process of writing it, and at around 3 minutes into the video, the real life inspiration behind it.

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   Jul 26, 2023 · "A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch.