This collection of stories is for key stage 4. Each genre includes a pre-twentieth century story and tales by twentieth century writers. Genres include: Horror, Crime and Detection, Ghosts and Mystery, Love, Science Fiction. Each section includes activities for comparison work as well as suggestions for student's own creative writing.

 

This book is part of a book series called New Windmills Collection Ks3 .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 4. KS4 covers school years 10 and 11, and ages 15-16 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 224 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 1998 by Pearson Education Limited .

This book has the following chapters:

Introduction

Ghost

The Superstitious Man's Story by Thomas Hardy

The Violet Car by E. Nesbit Harry by Rosemary Timperley

Crossing Over by Catherine Storr

Wide reading and origianal writing activitites

Crime and Detection

The Man with the Twisted Lip by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lieabout by Margery Allingham

Forever After by Jim Thompson

Wide reading and original writing activities

Love

Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope

The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

Twelve Hours - Narrative and Perspectives by Adele Geras

Wide reading and original writing activities

Science Fiction

Extract from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Wide reading and original writing activities

Horror

The Body-Snatcher by R. L. Stevenson

The Quest for 'Blank Claveringi' by Patricia Highsmith

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Serena Sees by G. K. Sprinkle

Wide reading and original writing activities