literature

Contains readings on literary relationships in works published between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries from Harold Bloom, examining works by William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, and mapping connections between John Milton, Percy Bysshe, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, John Ashbury, Amy Clampitt, Charles Wright, and others.

"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body"--Provided by publisher.

"The former Los Angeles Times book critic expands his short book on the importance of reading to include considerations of fake news, siloed information, and the necessity of critical thinking as a key component of engaged citizenship and resistance. Ulin builds the case in favor of slow reading in this distracted and troubled time"--Back cover.

Contains poems and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

Presents tools for teaching Jeanette Caines's "I Need a Lunch Box" in kindergarten through second grade, including comprehension, writing, and other activities.

Provides materials for teaching a unit on Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief," including multiple-choice and free-response questions, a chapter-by-chapter study guide, and lecture notes.

A thematic unit designed to teach students about slavery, including literature selections, planning guides, curriculum connections, group projects, literature-related activities, enrichment and culminating activities, a bibliography, resource materials, and reproducible pages.

"On bookstore [and library] shelves, one book looks as authoritative as the next. Online, posts and memes don't announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers to establish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be. After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, [this book] offers advice for specific reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on understanding writers' biases, interrogating claims, analyzing arguments, remaining wary of broad assertions and easy answers, and thinking critically about the written and spoken materials readers encounter"--Publisher's description.

A guide to preparing for the English literature and composition exam for advanced placement, featuring topic reviews, a glossary of key terms, and full-length practice exams with explained answers.

Talking Texts is a guide for teachers to the steps and strategies of implementing text clubs in many forms? fiction and nonfiction book clubs, textbook clubs, article clubs, and even poetry clubs?in the classroom. All strategies presented are applicable to any discipline so that text clubs can be employed across the curriculum in any grade level.