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Teach Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind offers the content of AP English classes. This book intends to serve as a guide and encouragement to educators by showing what can be possible when a teacher enjoys the freedom to find their own voice. Poems, novels, short stories, essays, and plays become the m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riener, Joseph F., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2016]
Temas:
Literature > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States.
English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States.
High school students > Books and reading > United States.
Littérature > Étude et enseignement (Secondaire) > États-Unis.
Élèves du secondaire > Livres et lecture > États-Unis.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching (Secondary)
High school students > Books and reading.
Literature > Study and teaching (Secondary)
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. First Four Classes
  • "Tiger Face" / Stephen Dunn
  • "The Death of the Hired Man" / Robert Frost
  • "Practice Makes Perfect
  • But Only If You Practice Beyond the Point of Perfection" / Dan Willingham
  • "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of the Imagination" / J.K. Rowling
  • 2. Some Initial Remarks about Essay Writing
  • 3. The Fifth and Sixth Classes
  • "Keith" and other stories / Ron Carlson
  • "The Cost Conundrum" / Atul Gawande
  • 4. The First Novel
  • Cider House Rules / John Irving
  • 5. First Nonfiction Book
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains / Tracy Kidder
  • 6. First Real Piece of Analysis
  • "The Minister's Black Veil" / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 7.A Modern Woman
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
  • 8. Adding Malcolm Gladwell to the Mix
  • "The Talent Myth" and "Million-Dollar Murray" / Malcolm Gladwell
  • 9. Henry James and a Wee Bit of Queer Theory
  • The Beast in the Jungle / Henry James
  • Note continued: 10. Habeas Corpus Doesn't Mean Much Until They Put the Handcuffs On You
  • "Do You Want Your Kid to Disappear?" / Nadya Labi
  • 11. Embracing Holden
  • Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
  • 12. Rant Number One: Remarks on Common Core Standards
  • 13. The American Heart in Its Darkness: Racism in American Literature and Life
  • "The Big American Crime," an essay in The New York Review of Books / Edmund Morgan
  • Poems / Phillis Wheatley
  • Benito Cereno / Herman Melville
  • 14. Spending Awhile with Huck and Jim
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
  • 15. Rant Number Two: On the Impossibility of Teaching Anyone to Write
  • 16. Poets and Some of Their Poems
  • Poems / Stanley Kunitz
  • 17.A Foray into Theory and Its Consequences
  • The Ghost Map, The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
  • and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World / Steven Johnson
  • 18. Heroes, the Truth, and the Danger to Us All
  • Note continued: Consideration of some people talked about in Speak Truth to Power, Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World / Nan Richardson
  • "Examined Life" / Malcolm Gladwell
  • Selections from Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, Malcolm Gladwell's review of the book, and a Jared Diamond review of other books
  • 19. Happy Ending: Moving away from the Canon
  • The Shipping News / Annie Proulx
  • 20. Living with the Unliveable
  • The Center Cannot Hold, My Journey through Madness / Elyn Saks
  • 21. Important Questions for Student Writing
  • 22. How Evil Harms the Participant
  • "Young Goodman Brown" / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 23. The Power of Youth and Love
  • The House of Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 24.A Journey into Darkness
  • "An Anatomy of Melancholy" / Andrew Solomon
  • A selection from Night Falls Fast, Understanding Suicide / Kay Redfield Jamison
  • "Bartleby the Scrivner" / Herman Melville
  • Note continued: 25. How to Make the World Better
  • The Checklist Manifesto, How to Get Things Right / Atul Gawande
  • 26. What Does Modern Mean? Considering "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" / T.S. Eliot
  • 27. Two Points of View
  • 28. Some Thoughts on Teaching Students to Take AP English Exam's "Free Response" Essay Portion
  • 29."You're going to school with Bigger Thomas"
  • Native Son / Richard Wright
  • 30. Poem for a Snowy Day
  • "Oatmeal Deluxe" / Stephen Dobyns
  • 31. Most Important Essay EVER
  • 32. Why Walt Whitman Still Sings
  • Song of Myself and Preface from Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman
  • 33. Some Remarks about Grades
  • 34. Once A Teacher ...
  • 35.A Very Large Social Problem of Our Time
  • The Exonerated / Erik Jensen
  • "The Caging of America" / Adam Gopnik
  • 36. Last Novel
  • Recovering from Trauma
  • Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko
  • 37. Gladwell's Charming Challenge
  • Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell
  • Note continued: 38.A Ghost, Madness, Genius, Romance, and a Happy Ending!
  • Proof / David Auburn
  • 39. Last Class.

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