Classics in the Classroom
Author: Michael Clay Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781862996533
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Teaching the Classics
Author: Adam & Missy Andrews
Publisher:
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780998322919
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Author: Carol Jago
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPractical ideas for teaching the classics in secondary classrooms.
Classics in the Classroom
Author: Christopher Edgar
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780915924585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassics in the Classroom presents practical ways to use great literature to inspire imaginative writing by young people and others. The great literature discussed in this volume includes myths, epics, lyric poems, plays, stories, and novels, from ancient Sumeria, Greece, Rome, and Persia, and from Europe, Japan, Africa, and the United States. Authors presented include Homer, Sappho, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, Rumi, Shakespeare, Basho, Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Kleist, Twain, and Hesse. Also discussed are works such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible, and Beowulf. The 19 informal essays in this book offer useful ideas and approaches taken directly from the contributors' own teaching experience.
Teaching the Classics in the Inclusive Classroom
Author: Katherine S. McKnight
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2007-11-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780787994068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTeaching the Classics in the Inclusive Classroom offers teachers a practical resource for helping students in grades 6-12 connect to and appreciate classic literary works. The book is filled with high-interest and engaging exercises that work with a variety of learners (with a particular emphasis on students with special needs), utilizing “pre-reading,” “during reading,” and “after reading” activities. Many of these exercises help to strengthen reading comprehension while other activities are specifically designed to reinforce vocabulary skills, as these apply to selected classic texts. Using these exercises and techniques to teach the classics will help your students appreciate literature and become better critical thinkers, writers, and readers.
The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom
Author: Juanita Feros Ruys
Publisher: Brepols Pub
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9782503527543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. By analysing some of the commentaries, glosses, and paraphrases of these classics that were deployed in medieval and Renaissance classrooms, and by offering greater insight into premodern pedagogic practice, the chapters here emphasize the 'pragmatic' aspects of humanist study. The volume proposes that the classics continued to be studied in the medieval and Renaissance periods not simply for their cultural or 'ornamental' value, but also for utilitarian reasons, for 'life lessons'. Because the volume goes beyond analysing the educational manuals surviving from the premodern period and attempts to elucidate the teaching methodology of the premodern period, it provides a nuanced insight into the formation of the premodern individual. The volume will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students interested in medieval and Renaissance history in general, as well as those interested in the history of educational theory and practice, or in the premodern reception of classical literature.
Classroom Classics
Author: Carole Ann Walton
Publisher:
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781662800467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of CLASSROOM CLASSICS is no mystery. CLASSROOM CLASSICS is a collection of brilliant blurbs. These popping passages and savvy sayings are truly superb. CLASSROOM CLASSICS make my heart dance. It only takes one glance. CLASSROOM CLASSICS has so much to explore. The thought for the day I absolutely adore! Carole Ann Walton was born in Danbury, Connecticut. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1983. She is married to Michael Walton. She is the mother of Chloe' Comma and Silas Walton. She is a writer, developer, director, coordinator, facilitator, orator, and narrator.
No More Fake Reading
Author: Berit Gordon
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2017-07-07
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1506365493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor middle- and high-school teachers, it’s one of today’s most vexing problems: How do you motivate students with varied interests and little appetite for classic literature to stop faking their way through texts and start advancing as skilled, engaged readers? Independent reading is an important part of the answer, but it’s just that — a part of the whole. In this groundbreaking book, Berit Gordon offers the complete solution, a blended model that combines the benefits of classic literature with the motivational power of choice reading. With the blended model, teachers lead close examinations of key passages from classic texts, guiding students to an understanding of important reading strategies they can transfer to their choice books. Teachers gain a platform for demonstrating the critical reading skills students so urgently require, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. In this research-backed book, Gordon leads you step by step to classroom success with the blended model, showing: The basics of getting your classroom library up and running How to build a blended curriculum for both fiction and non-fiction units, keeping relevant standards in mind Tips and resources to help with day-to-day planning Ideas for selecting class novel passages that provide essential cultural capital and bolster students’ reading skills Strategies for bringing talk into your blended reading classroom How to reach the crucial learning goal of transfer A practical, user-friendly approach for assessing each student’s progress No More Fake Reading gives you all the tools you need to put the blended model to work for your students and transform your classroom into a vibrant reading environment. Berit Gordon coaches teachers as they nurture lifelong readers and writers. Her path as an educator began in the classroom in the Dominican Republic before teaching in New York City public schools. She also taught at the Teachers College of Columbia University in English Education. She currently works as a literacy consultant in grades 3-12 and lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband and three children.
Classroom Conversations
Author: Alexandra Miletta
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2008-10-07
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1595585613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Classroom Conversations, two generations of educators—a mother and daughter—point us to the great thinkers who have shaped their beliefs and practices in education, and who continue to influence teachers today. Nineteen essays by educators from Dewey to Delpit offer parents and new educators an education degree in a nutshell. The Milettas frame these touchstone texts with commentary explaining why these writers resonate for them, sharing not only the personal meanings they have derived from the selections but why these writings have endured in the field over time. Brief biographies set each author in context for the lay reader. As educational fads and jargon come and go, parents and teachers alike will appreciate and find value in the wisdom distilled here. Classroom Conversations will help experienced teachers find renewed meaning in these seminal essays and will help younger teachers discover just how important the work they do can be. For parents, the book will inform and enrich their understanding of their children's educational experience.
Rescuing Socrates
Author: Roosevelt Montas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2023-03-21
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0691224390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.
