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

2. 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”.

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

4. English Section Browse the English subject pages

5. 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”.

6. Writers

8. Poetry – Audio and Video Clips

9. 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

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

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

12. Discussion Topics

14. Informational / Discursive Writing Topics

16. Creative Writing Stimulus - Character

17. Creative Writing Stimulus - Setting

18. Creative Writing Stimulus - Atmosphere

19. Creative Writing Stimulus - Plotting

20. 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)