DNA by Dennis Kelly: Routes to Revision
Ebook
Overview
This book is designed to engage students in active responders to the play DNA by Dennis Kelly. It incorporates creative and reflective tasks and devices, to help them make sense of the play for themselves. The book provides individual/ pair or group tasks which are motivating, active and engaging for young people. The text will be accompanied throughout by images/ illustrations related to the play in performance.
This study guide provides a number of attractive and purposeful tasks and activities which engage students in active revision processes for the play DNA by Dennis Kelly, in order to help them to achieve specified AQA outcomes.
This book includes everything a student needs to revise for DNA in preparation for their GCSE AQA English Literature exams.
DNA is a set text modern play choice for nearly all the major exam boards for English Literature and Drama.
Introduction
1. A Way of Looking at a Play
2. Assessment Objectives Explained
3. A Summary of DNA by Dennis Kelly
4. Introduction to the Use of Dimension Charts
5. Review of Plot and Character
6. Writer’s Methods
7. Themes
8. Contexts
9. Tackling the Question
10. A Guide to Writing your Examination Answer
11. Glossary of Terms
12. Appendix
13. Resources for Photocopying
I would recommend it as a great guide for teachers in exploring the play with their students, as it encourages students to take an active role in interpreting the text for themselves, and offers a more meaningful route to learning as well as revision.
- Title: DNA by Dennis Kelly: Routes to Revision
- Author: Iona Towler-Evans
- Publisher: Oberon Books
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781786821188, 9781786821171, 1786821176, 1786821184
- Resource ID: LLS:9781786821188
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:00:58Z
Iona Towler-Evans is a freelance teacher and consultant in education, particularly the use of Heathcote drama systems in the mainstream curriculum. She is one of seven national trainers for the Mantle of the Expert teaching system, and teaches at Newman University in Birmingham. She is on the National Working Group on Mantle of the Expert and contributes regularly to conferences on creativity. She has been a Consultant to the Choice Project since 2010. She has written materials for teachers and schools in the past, and is an executive of the NATD (National Association of Teachers of Drama).