Scran for English Logging in Browsing and Searching Topics Scran Training PowerPoint 10

How to Log In Type your user name and password in the boxes in the right hand column… … or choose your school from the drop-down menu and click “go”.

Schools Home Page and Secondary Section Click on the Secondary section … … then click on the English link

English Section Browse the English subject pages

Searching Type your keyword(s) into the Search box at the top right hand corner of the page and click “go”. For example: This will search the whole of Scran for Records, Pathfinder Packs and Features containing the word “Edwin Morgan”.

Writers

Poetry – Audio and Video Clips

Putting Literature in Context Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song – The theme of wartime deforestation destroying the natural, seasonal cycle of rural life in Scotland

Putting Literature in Context Images to illustrate Poetry from World War One

Putting Literature in Context Bernard’s MacLaverty’s “Cal” – conflict in Northern Ireland

Discussion Topics

Informational / Discursive Writing Topics

Creative Writing Stimulus - Character

Creative Writing Stimulus - Setting

Creative Writing Stimulus - Atmosphere

Creative Writing Stimulus - Plotting

Next Steps You’ll find more PowerPoint presentations on Scran covering: Getting Started on Scran (Scran Training PowerPoint 1) Using “My Stuff” (Scran Training PowerPoint 2) Creating with Scran (Scran Training PowerPoint 3)