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Teaching Challenging Texts: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia

Teaching Challenging Texts: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia


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Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments. "Exploring the Future" features fiction by George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, and William Golding; nonfiction by Philip Zimbardo, Stephen Pinker, Abraham Lincoln, Jared Diamond, Dan Ariely, and Ray Kurzweil; images from several films, an old television commercial; and classical and contemporary music. "Understanding the Power of One" features fiction by Victor Hugo and Lori Halse Anderson; nonfiction by Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, and Edith Hamilton; a young adult book on archaeology, an animated film from Walt Disney, and an episode from Saturday Night Live. An extensive list of free resources and correlations to the Common Core allow teachers to "teach on the cheap." Teaching Difficult Texts brims with "relevant and robust" lessons for a new generation.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Foreword Chapter 1 Reading as a Social Activity Rules of the Game Adolescence Slaying the Deer Good MAP and Bad MAP Reading by Choice The Common Core How to Use This Book Reading to the BRIMS Chapter 2 Exploring the Future in High School A Fresh Start Lesson 1: Clues about Character Lesson 2: Word Choice Environmental Effects Lesson 3: Ethics and Actions Lesson 4: The Note-Draft Lesson 5: Synthesizing Data Introducing 1984 Lesson 6: One Minute Jolt Lesson 7: Understanding Words in Context Lesson 8: Connotations Lesson 9: Rewriting the Constitution Lesson 10: Rewriting the Gettysburg Address 1984, Part Two Lesson 11: Character Clues Lesson 12: The Future of Oceania Lesson 13: The U.S. and the Next 100 Years 1984, Part Three Lesson 14: Character Transformation Lesson 15: Film Crew Transcendent Man Research Project Lesson 16: The Singularity How Long Will You Live? Research Project Lesson 17: How Long Will You Live? Exploring the Future Handouts Handout 1: Clues about Character Handout 2: Action Verbs in Lord of the Flies Handout 3: Scenario 1 Handout 4: Scenario 2 Handout 5: America’s Wars Handout 6: Deaths in Historical Perspective Handout 7: Excerpt from 1984 by George Orwell Handout 8: Cool Names for a Band, Uncool Names Handout 9: Rewriting Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Handout 10: Getting to Know Winston Handout 11: Getting to Know Julia Handout 12: The Future of Oceania Handout 13: Facts about the United States Handout 14: The United States and the Next 100 Years Handout 15: Evaluation for the United States and the Next 100 Years Handout 16: The Evolution of Winston Handout 17: The Evolution of Julia Handout 18: Checklist and Assessment for Film Crew Handout 19: Directions for Film Crew Handout 20: Kurzweil AI Summary Report Handout 21: How Long Will You Live? Exploring the Future, Free Resources and Correlations to the Common Core Chapter 3 Understanding the Power of One in Middle School Introduction to Chains Lesson 1: Quick Narrative Everyday journals Tech-y Check-ins Lesson 2: Courtroom Debate Prep Lesson 3: Courtroom Debate Lesson 4: So You Think You Can Dance, 1776 Lesson 5: A Guide Map of New York Lesson 6: Lyrical Message Mystery Lesson 7: The Great New York Fire of 1776 Lesson 8: A Scar is Worth a Thousand Words A Day in the Life: Research Project Tackling Victor Hugo Lesson 9: Satire Night Live Lesson 10: Frollo: Friend or Foe? Lesson 11: Character Yin-Yangs Lesson 12: Mythological Allusions Lesson 13: Charter Speed-Dating Lesson 14: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Real to Reel Digging Through the Dirt Lesson 15: Archaeology Say What? Lesson 16: What’s Your Story? Lesson 17: Fossil Biographies Lesson 18: Archeological Vocabulary Lesson 19: Symbolism: Cave Art Lesson 20: Look Who’s Talking Lesson 21: Annotating Otzi Understanding The Power of One Handouts Handout 1: Courtroom Debate Prep Day 1 Handout 2: Courtroom Debate Prep Day 2 Handout 3: New York: A Guide Map Handout 4: Lyrical Message Mystery 1 Handout 5: Lyrical Message Mystery 2 Handout 6: The Great New York Fire of 1776 Handout 7: Body Biographies Handout 8: A Day in the Life Research Project Handout 9: Satire Night Live Handout 10: Character Charts Handout 11: Frollo: Friend or Foe? Handout 12: Character Yin-Yangs Handout 13: Mythological Allusions Handout 14: Character Speed Dating Handout 15: Reel to Real Questions Handout 16: Symbolism: Cave Art Handout 17: Look Who’s Talking Handout 18: Annotating Otzi Handout 19: Annotation Aids Understanding the Power of One, Free Resources and Correlations to the Common Core References

About the Author :
Lawrence A. Baines is chair of instructional leadership and academic curriculum at The University of Oklahoma and former teacher of English, reading and social studies. Jane E. Fisher is a teacher of eighth grade language arts at Whittier Middle School in Norman, Oklahoma. Jane enjoys writing and collecting vinyl records.

Review :
Teaching Challenging Texts takes on an nearly insurmountable goal, seeking to blend a powerful commitment to adolescent-centered teaching with the demands of standards-based accountability and the needs of pragmatic educators. This book succeeds in its goal and should provide thoughtful educators with an invaluable resource as they build classrooms where students and texts matter. Adolescents deserve to have their teachers read Teaching Challenging Texts. It's filled with practical ideas for middle and high school teachers as they consider the ways in which students can be engaged in authentic learning tasks. The texts used as exemplars are worthy, complex, and relevant to the lives of adolescents, and students everywhere will appreciate the lessons they receive from their teachers who read this book. We teachers face our toughest adversary ever: Technology that is driving our students away from reading, enjoying and learning much from the great bounty of literature that provides the depth and breadth of essential knowledge. Baines & Fisher's challenging book is a must read for all of us to become better teachers of this new generation. To read Teaching Challenging Texts is to have a warm conversation with colleagues over a cup of coffee about how to teach in the visual-verbal world in which we all live. A breakthrough set of teaching strategies for a new age.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781475805215
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1475805217
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jun 2013
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 354 gr


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