Marauders from Mars War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia sheds fresh, Antipodean light on H.G. Wells' original tale in stories that traverse the southern continent.Home to the planet's longest-surviving mysteries, Australia now plays victim to marauding Martians in this outstanding collection of exciting stories set in the past, present and future. Australian Invasion It is well-known that Wells found vital inspiration for his 1897 novel in the horrific plight of Tasmanian...
Scarlet Stiletto: The Eleventh Cut – 2019 features thirteen award-winning stories from the 26th annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards. 'Crime and mystery short story collections of startling originality; and a grim warning of what evil lurks in Australian suburbia.' – Kerry Greenwood The Scarlet Stiletto series of eBooks – the First to the Eleventh Cuts – feature superb collections of spine-chilling crime and mystery short stories, by Australian women writers, curated from 26 years of the...
OLYMPIAS is one of Voltaire's most powerful tragedies. It's based on the suspicion that King Alexander the Great was poisoned, and left an infant daughter, Olympias, by his Persian wife Statira, daughter of the last Persian king. Olympias was raised by Cassander, son of King Antipater of Macedon, who's also tried to murder Statira (although she survived, unbeknownst to him). Now Cassader has succeeded his father as King, but is riddled with guilt over his crimes. Olympias has been...
Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is…Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted...
Piekfyn Afrikaans Graad 6 is gemik op leerders wat Afrikaans as Huistaal neem. Dit bevat interessante leerstof en volkleur illustrasies om visuele geletterdheid te bevorder. Al die taalinhoud, aktiwiteite, speletjies en ander oefeninge word met dié van ander vakke geïntegreer sodat die kennis wat die leerders opdoen, hulle ervaringswêreld verryk en hul sodoende deeglik voorberei vir Graad 7. Die aktiwiteite is gerig op die verwerwing van al die taalvaardighede en lewensvaardighede. Kort tekste,...
’n Leesboek soos min! Piekfyn Afrikaans Leesboek vir Huistaal is volgens die vereistes vir leesonderrig in die Intermediêre Fase ontwikkel. Die boek is ingedeel volgens verskillende genres met tekste en temas gepas vir ’n Graad 4-leerder soos jy. Wanneer jy hierdie leesboek lees, gaan jy jouself inleef in die wonderlike gebeure en karakters in elke storie en teks. Maar die Piekfyn Afrikaans Leesboek bestaan nie net uit kort stories nie. Daar is langer stories (uittreksels uit romans) en...
The obvious thing to do with this play is to read it as a text, just as you would if it were a short story or a novel. But it holds other possibilities as well. • It could be read aloud, with four learners taking the different roles while the rest of the class follow along in their books as the audience, or the class could be divided into groups of four to do the play reading in groups so that everyone gets a chance to read aloud. • It could even be staged, with auditions to choose the best...
’n Leesboek soos min! Piekfyn Afrikaans Leesboek vir Eerste Addisionele Taal is volgens die vereistes vir leesonderrig in die Intermediêre Fase ontwikkel. Die boek is ingedeel volgens verskillende genres met tekste en temas gepas vir leerders in hierdie fase. Wanneer leerders hierdie leesboek lees, gaan hulle hulself inleef in die wonderlike gebeure en karakters in elke storie en teks. Maar die Piekfyn Afrikaans Leesboek bestaan nie net uit kort stories nie. Daar is ook langer stories en...
’n Leesboek soos min! Piekfyn Afrikaans Leesboek vir Eerste Addisionele Taal is volgens die vereistes vir leesonderrig in die Intermediêre Fase ontwikkel. Die boek is ingedeel volgens verskillende genres met tekste en temas gepas vir leerders in hierdie fase. Wanneer leerders hierdie leesboek lees, gaan hulle hulself inleef in die wonderlike gebeure en karakters in elke storie en teks. Maar die Piekfyn Afrikaans Leesboek bestaan nie net uit kort stories nie. Daar is ook langer stories en...