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Jan Needle’s exciting play based on the school strikes of 1911. The book contains a stimulating playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities.Playscript – the book contains a playscript focusing on issues that are of interest in schools.Accompanying resources contain activities for drama (including role-play), reading, writing, and speaking and listening. These are accompanied by extension material, including extracts from modern and pre-20th-century works for comparison, and documentary material.The resources are organized under the following headings:Staging the playWork on and around the scriptFrom novel to playscriptThemes in and around the playMedia.