Jenny Hatton's Biography

“What South African English books can you read with your Senior Phase Additional Language learners?” – Jenny Hatton.
This workshop will offer the opportunity to talk to other teachers about novels they are reading in English classrooms. The focus will be on a number of questions such as: How much has changed since the new curriculum was introduced? Are readers more current and local? Which novels work with learners and why? What other South African fiction could you read with your grade 7, 8 or 9 learners? Participants will go away with a bibliography and some practical suggestions on how to use readers in the classroom.

Jenny Hatton was a teacher, Head of Department, Media Advisor with the ex-TED, First Education Specialist and then Deputy Chief Education Specialist with the Gauteng Department of Education before leaving to freelance in 2000. She began writing while working for the Education Department and as a consultant to the Gauteng Institute of Education Development. Since then she has been involved in writing, editing, compiling and project managing as well as training. Her work has been published by a number of organisations and publishers including Jacana Media, Heinemann and Macmillan. Her English textbooks include the Expressions Grades 10-12 and All Aboard Grades 7-9 series. In 2007 she started a branch of the South African chapter of the international Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Gauteng. For more information on this, see http://www.SCBWIGauteng.blogspot.com. To see some of Jenny’s publications, see http://www.Jenny-Hatton.blogspot.com