The following resource is an edited version (with the author's permission) of a wonderful on-line article by Paul Armstrong - An analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby through a consideration of two Italian translations. Paul’s brilliant analysis of Fitzgerald’s language has been organised into short, manageable sections for pupils and teachers. A white board could be used to display and share.

This resource is a scaffold for creative writing at KS3/4. Using the images, pupils can work on character, setting, voice, story... The opening and closing lines come from Robert Frost’s poem Out, out –. The stills come from James Mangold’s film, Walk the Line. I then like to upload the document to Google docs, sharing with pupils, before setting them tasks (in groups or pairs) to work on different aspects of the story simultaneously. A social constructivist approach to storytelling, if you will! If you want to play the clip from Mangold’s film, it’s the second episode in the DVD.

This video is a filmed interpretation of Vernon Scannell's poem, A Case of Murder. The children who made the film at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow, made much of Scannell's imagery and themes. The art work and the use of green screen technology was all the pupils' work. I feel it could be a useful resource for teachers studying the poem with their classes There are additional resources - storyboards, the poem itself, a shot list - that will hopefully be useful if you are teaching the text.