Kul@lära: Stonecold- bokläsning + olika digitala uppgifter. Robert Swindells roman Stonecold är en spännande och ganska lättläst bok som vi haft i klassuppsättning en längre tid.
Boken handlar om en ung kille som inte kommer överens med sin styvpappa och som beger sig till London där han lever som hemlös. Under detta läsprojekt gavs eleverna möjlighet att göra olika extrauppgifter i anslutning till boken, gärna för att förstärka och för att få en chans att visa upp förmågor som den enskilde behövde jobba med. Det blev ett härligt smörgåsbord av aktivitet och kreativitet:Ordmoln med verktyget WordleIntervju av huvudpersonen gjord i VocarooQuiz med frågor på bokens innehåll (gjord på webb-sidan Make-a-Quiz; åtkomst till quiz genom att man skriver sitt namn + e-mail)IllustrationerTidningsartikel; ytterligare ett exempelSammanfattning av en dokumentärfilm om hemlösa; ytterligare ett exempel.En rap om bokens innehållEtt korsord. Reading_journal.pdf.
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"Bob" Swindells (born 20 March 1939) is an English author of children's and young-adult fiction. Biography[edit] Born in Yorkshire, Bradford, Swindells worked for a newspaper after leaving school aged 15.[2] He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a primary school teacher. While in training he wrote his first novel, When Darkness Comes, which was published by Brockhampton Press of Leicester in 1973.[3] He combined writing with teaching until 1980 when he took up writing full-time. He was still writing as of his 71st birthday (March 20, 2010). He first won the Red House Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land (1984), a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world.
In a 2010 by-election and in the 2011 local elections, Swindells stood for Parliament as the Green Party of England and Wales candidate for the Worth Valley ward of Bradford City Council. Selected works[edit] Awards[edit] Swindells has won several annual book awards. Runners up, etc. Robert Swindells - Penguin Books Authors. Robert Swindells combines hard-hitting subject matter (homelessness, racial intolerance, nuclear war) with page-turning storytelling in his powerful novels for teenagers.
He was won major awards and established himself as one of the most reliable but consistently surprising writers for young people. THE BASICS Born: Bradford, March 20th 1939 Jobs: Copyholder, Shop Assistant, Clerk, Printer, Engineer, Teacher, Author Lives: West Yorkshire First Book for young people: When Darkness Comes, 1973 THE BOOKS Robert Swindells was born in Bradford, the eldest of five children, on the eve of the Second World War.
Although at school he showed a flair for descriptive and narrative writing, Robert failed his 11-plus. He left school at the age of 15 to become a copyholder on a local newspaper – “reading aloud from the original copy while the proof reader checked it”. Robert’s first book When Darkness Comes was a historical novel which he began as part of his teacher training course. WHAT HE SAYS... 1. Robert Swindells (Author of Stone Cold) Stone Cold (Kallt som i graven)