Product Description: Galileo's revolutionary scientific work brought him into conflict with the authorities of his time, but earned him an honored place in the history books. He swept away old notions of the universe by observing the skies through a telescope and confirming that the Earth and planets travel round the Sun...read more

Product Description: The two-act play, That Rebellious Towne (at Extended Reading: A, for 9-10 year olds) is one of ten playscript adaptations of existing Cambridge Reading stories to be published in January 2000. This group-reading pack is accompanied by teacher's notes, co-authored by Nick Warburton (an experienced playwright and children's author) and Jennie Dunn (a practising teacher and drama specialist), comprehensively covering the NLS requirements for study of plays as well as offering general guidance on reading and performing the plays in the classroom...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The little town of Lyme looks very peaceful when Ann and William arrive there with their mother one spring day in 1644. Surely they have escaped from the war? But the town is besieged, and the king's soldiers are under orders to teach Lyme's rebellious people a lesson...read more

Product Description: Will Shakespeare dreamed of becoming an actor and a playwright. At nineteen he left his home town of Stratford and headed for London, following his dream. He became an actor, part owner of the Globe theater - and the greatest playwright of all time...read more

Presents the life of the famous English playwright and discusses some of his notable works