More Novels and Plays: Thirty Creative Teaching Guides for Grades 612
Another information-packed, time-saving tool for teachers from the authors of Novels and Plays, this book contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. With initiating activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing assignments, and interdisciplinary extensions, these are complete lesson plans. For each book there is also a brief plot summary, a critique, lists of themes and literary concepts for teaching, suggestions for outside...
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Another information-packed, time-saving tool for teachers from the authors of Novels and Plays, this book contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. With activities, discussion questions, writing assignments, and interdisciplinary extensions, these are complete lesson plans. KLIATT Even teachers who are already using the selections in this book would find ideas for class discussions, writing assignments, related activities and other resources (audiobooks, web sites, videos, professional journals). The 30 literary works start with 6th-grade children's books: Bridge to Terabithia; Shiloh; Tuck Everlasting. Middle school choices continue with Number the Stars; The Sign of the Beaver; Where the Lilies Bloom; Hatchet; The Cay; The Goats; The Pearl; Nothing but the Truth; The Contender. High school choices are The Miracle Worker; The Moves Make the Man; The Outsiders; Great Expectations; Fahrenheit 451; Julius Caesar; The Chocolate War; The Red Badge of Courage; Fences; A Lesson Before Dying; Things Fall Apart; The Crucible; The Great Gatsby; Death of a Salesman; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Lord of the Flies; Hamlet; Wuthering Heights. As you can see, many of these are standard fare in most English classes. The discussion questions (chapter by chapter), the suggested assignments and activities are varied and imaginative. The authors are experienced English teachers at the secondary and college level. 2000, Teacher Ideas Press, Libraries Unlimited, 223p, bibliogs, index, 28cm, 99-089777, $27.00. Ages Adult. Reviewer: Claire Rosser; September 2000 (Vol. 34 No. 5)
\ VOYATeachers are constantly on the lookout for new ways to use literature with students. This collection of teaching guides, a sequel to Novels and Plays (Libraries Unlimited, 1977), offers a look at some timeless classics as well as more recent literature for junior and senior high school students. A summary of a book's content with an appraisal of the author's work, major themes, and literary elements are noted with recommendations for related reading. Sections on vocabulary and prereading activities are included, but the vast majority of each guide is devoted to questions to stimulate discussion and writing by student readers. Suggested media tie-ins are noted where available. Although new ideas are always welcome, this resource has several areas that might be troublesome to teachers and librarians. The guide for Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia (HarperCollins, 1978), for example, seems misplaced in a resource for secondary students. The section for grades seven through nine highlights titles as disparate as Brock Cole's The Goats (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992), The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Viking, 1945), Avi's Nothing But the Truth (Orchard, 1991), and The Contender by Robert Lipsyte (HarperCollins, 1967). Some of the preceding works are more appropriate for nine- to twelve-year-old readers, younger than the chapter title indicates. Most troubling, though, is the fact that books recommended for readers beyond grade nine are all classics. There are no contemporary titles included here. Finally, discussion questions seem to focus more on recall of facts than on inspiring spirited debate in many cases. Although this book might be of value as one more source for teachers, they mightbe better directed to other resources, most notably Joan Kaywell's Adolescent Literature As a Complement to the Classics (Christopher Gordon, 2000/see VOYA review this issue) and Sarah Herz and Don Gallo's From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges Between Young Adult Literature and the Classics (Greenwood, 1996/VOYA December 1996). Index. Appendix. 2000, Teachers Ideas Press, 233p, $27 pb. Ages Adult. Reviewer: Teri Lesesne \ SOURCE: VOYA, December 2000 (Vol. 23, No. 5)\ \ \ \ \ \ KLIATTEven teachers who are already using the selections in this book would find ideas for class discussions, writing assignments, related activities and other resources (audiobooks, web sites, videos, professional journals). The 30 literary works start with 6th-grade children's books: Bridge to Terabithia; Shiloh; Tuck Everlasting. Middle school choices continue with Number the Stars; The Sign of the Beaver; Where the Lilies Bloom; Hatchet; The Cay; The Goats; The Pearl; Nothing but the Truth; The Contender. High school choices are The Miracle Worker; The Moves Make the Man; The Outsiders; Great Expectations; Fahrenheit 451; Julius Caesar; The Chocolate War; The Red Badge of Courage; Fences; A Lesson Before Dying; Things Fall Apart; The Crucible; The Great Gatsby; Death of a Salesman; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Lord of the Flies; Hamlet; Wuthering Heights. As you can see, many of these are standard fare in most English classes. The discussion questions (chapter by chapter), the suggested assignments and activities are varied and imaginative. The authors are experienced English teachers at the secondary and college level. 2000, Teacher Ideas Press, Libraries Unlimited, 223p, bibliogs, index, 28cm, 99-089777, $27.00. Ages Adult. Reviewer: Claire Rosser; September 2000 (Vol. 34 No. 5)\ \
