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50 Essential Lessons

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 11/20/2006
Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 9th - 12th

50 Essential Lessons is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world. Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive and personal skills—reading,... more

Introduction to the Short Story

Robert Boynton , Maynard Mack Jr

Pub Date: 4/6/1992 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - College

A classic since its original publication twenty-five years ago, Introduction to the Short Story is now revised and expanded, with the addition of six stories new to this fourth edition. The text opens with a new section devoted to examining how readers of short stories--or any kind of literature--can, and do, approach such reading. ... more

Introduction to the Poem

Robert Boynton , Maynard Mack Jr

Pub Date: 1/1/1985 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - College

This latest edition retains the features that have made Introduction to the Poem a superb text from which to teach and learn. Bob Boynton and Maynard Mack's intent from the first has been to suggest ways of approaching a poem that will make it more understandable and enjoyable--to introduce students to the art of reading poetry.... more

Introduction to Myth

Peter Stillman

Pub Date: 1/1/1985 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - College

This not a collection of myths but a study of mythology itself, and a literature anthology as well. It offers a thoughtful explication of the archetypal quest tale, in ways that will make students aware of its universal value in embodying human responses to the universe. Called the "monomyth," the hero tale subsumes within... more