- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Year: 2011
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x128mm
- Condition: New - Very Good
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9781408134825
- Product code: 530203
The Road
Postscript summary
Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, this is the screenplay of the film The Road starring Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce, which follows the journey of a man and his son across a blighted, post-apocalyptic world in search of a new beginning. It is presented in the Methuen Drama Critical Script series, with teaching activities for students at Key Stage 3 and GCSE. Slightly off-mint.
This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series:
meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010)
features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis
places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities
will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3
will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.
The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth barren and hostile. It follows a father and son as they struggle to survive in a landscape where men either starve or join the marauding gangs of cannibals. Readers are advised that there are some scenes of a disturbing nature.
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