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1. thegreatbritishbookworm.wordpress.com › 2018/08/12The Promise by Nicola Davies & Laura Carlin

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   Aug 12, 2018 · The Promise by Nicola Davies & Laura Carlin. My word – What a wonderful, astonishing book Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin have created. A perfect picture book in which the words and the images enhance each other to produce art at an other level to most stories shared with children.

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3. thebookerprizes.com › sites › default211021 Booker UK 2021 Discussion Guides - Booker Prize

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   About the book. Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut’s The Promise, a deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land. The narrator’s eye shifts and blinks, deliciously lethal in its observation of the crash and burn of a white South African family.

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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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5. 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.

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   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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6. www.the-tls.co.uk › literature › fictionThe Promise by Damon Galgut book review - TLS

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   In The Promise, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, Damon Galgut portrays a family cursed by greed in a nation betrayed by corruption. After the death of their father Manie, the Swart siblings have gathered at the family farm near Pretoria. A dove flies into the glass door of the dining.

7. 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 family book?

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

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   What is the message of 'the promise'?

   • The Promise (Chatto & Windus, PRH), set in South Africa during the country’s transition out of apartheid, explores the interconnected relationships between the members of a diminishing white family through the sequential lens of four funerals.

   The Promise wins the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction

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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 […]

   The Promise | The Booker Prizes

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   Can a thief have it without a promise?

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

   The Promise | TeachingEnglish | British Council

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9. thebookerprizes.com › sites › defaultThe Promise wins the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction

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   Nov 3, 2021 · The Promise wins the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction • It’s third time lucky for Damon Galgut after shortlistings in 2003 and 2010 • He follows in the footsteps of fellow South Africans, 1974 joint winner Nadine Gordimer and double winner J. M. Coetzee (1983 and 1999) • Set in Pretoria where Galgut grew up, The Promise