Joseph F. Riener

Teach Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind (eBook, PDF)

The Possibilities of Literature and Composition in an American High School, Volume 1

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 means to have conversations with young people about love and life, peace and war, virtue and vice, joy and grief. The author/teacher describes creating an environment and curriculum where students could greatly improve their writing skills. He explains the rationale for his presentations and literary selections. Even those who missed a thoughtful introduction to literature the first time around may find a useful beginning in what's presented here. Seeking to engage in the ongoing educational debate in the US, the writer demonstrates how the material presented in these courses can contribute to students' genuine artistic and literary education. These volumes suggest that such reading and writing prepare young people to be good citizens in a democracy. offers curriculum for AP English classesexplains how to present challenging material to high school studentspresents a method to increase students' writing skillsuseful as an introduction to literature (for those who missed it)stresses the value of a humanistic approach to literatureargues against Common Core Curriculum homogenization

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216343516
• Artikelnr.: 74833510

Autorenporträt

Joseph F. Riener has been involved with education and its issues for a lifetime. He most recently taught AP English at a large urban high school for 17 years.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE INTRODUCTION TO BOTH VOLUMES CHAPTER 1 FIRST FOUR CLASSES "Tiger
Face" by Stephen Dunn, "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost,
"Practice Makes Perfect - But Only If You Practice Beyond the Point of
Perfection" by Dan Willingham; "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the
Importance of the Imagination" by J.K. Rowling CHAPTER 2 SOME INITIAL
REMARKS ABOUT ESSAY WRITING CHAPTER 3 FIFTH AND SIXTH CLASSES "Keith" and
other stories, by Ron Carlson; "The Cost Conundrum" by Atul Gawande CHAPTER
4 THE FIRST NOVEL: Cider House Rules by John Irving CHAPTER 5 FIRST
NONFICTION BOOK Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder CHAPTER 6 FIRST
REAL PIECE OF ANALYSIS "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
CHAPTER 7 A MODERN WOMAN Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
CHAPTER 8 ADDING MALCOLM GLADWELL TO THE MIX "The Talent Myth" and
"Million-Dollar Murray" by Malcolm Gladwell, available at Gladwell.com
CHAPTER 9 HENRY JAMES AND A WEE BIT OF QUEER THEORY "The Beast in the
Jungle" by Henry James CHAPTER 10 HABEAS CORPUS DOESN'T MEAN MUCH UNTIL
THEY PUT THE HANDCUFFS ON YOU "Do You Want Your Kid to Disappear?" by Nadya
Labi CHAPTER 11 EMBRACING HOLDEN Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
CHAPTER 12 RANT NUMBER ONE: REMARKS ON COMMON CORE WRITING STANDARDS
CHAPTER 13 THE AMERICAN HEART IN ITS DARKNESS: RACISM IN LITERATURE AND
LIFE "The Big American Crime" an essay in The New York Review of Books by
Edmund Morgan, poems by Phillis Wheatley, "Benito Cereno" by Herman
Melville CHAPTER 14 SPENDING AWHILE WITH HUCK AND JIM The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain CHAPTER 15 RANT NUMBER TWO: ON THE
IMPOSSIBILITY OF TEACHING ANYONE TO WRITE CHAPTER 16 POETS AND SOME OF
THEIR POEMS poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Stanley Kunitz
CHAPTER 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, by Steven Johnson CHAPTER 18 HEROES, THE
TRUTH, AND THE DANGER TO US ALL consideration of some people talked about
in Speak Truth to Power, Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World,
by Kerry Kennedy, photographs by Eddie Adams, edited by Nan Richardson;
"Examined Life" by 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 CHAPTER 19
HAPPY ENDING: MOVING AWAY FROM THE CANON The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
CHAPTER 20 LIVING WITH THE UNLIVEABLE The Center Cannot Hold, My Journey
Through Madness, by Elyn Saks CHAPTER 21 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR STUDENT
WRITING CHAPTER 22 HOW EVIL HARMS THE PARTICIPANT "Young Goodman Brown" by
Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER 23 THE POWER OF YOUTH AND LOVE The House of
Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER 24 A
JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS readings: "An Anatomy of Melacholy", Andrew Solomon;a
selection from Night Falls Fast, Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield
Jamison; "Bartleby the Scrivner" by Herman Melville CHAPTER 25 HOW TO MAKE
THE WORLD BETTER The Checklist Manifesto, How to Get Things Right, by Atul
Gawande CHAPTER 26 WHAT DOES MODERN MEAN? "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot CHAPTER 27 TWO POINTS OF VIEW: Teens and
Oppression; Strangers in Our Midst CHAPTER 28 THOUGHTS ON TEACHING STUDENTS
TO TAKE AP ENGLISH EXAM'S "FREE RESPONSE" ESSAY PORTION CHAPTER 29 YOU'RE
GOING TO SCHOOL WITH BIGGER THOMAS Native Son by Richard Wright CHAPTER 30
POEM FOR A SNOWY DAY "Oatmeal Deluxe" by Stephen Dobyns CHAPTER 31 MOST
IMPORTANT ESSAY EVER CHAPTER 32 WHY WALT WHITMAN STILL SINGS "Song of
Myself" and Preface from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman CHAPTER 33 SOME
REMARKS ABOUT GRADES CHAPTER 34 ONCE A TEACHER.... CHAPTER 35 A VERY LARGE
SOCIAL PROBLEM OF OUR TIME The Exonerated by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
"The Caging of America" by Adam Gopnik CHAPTER 36 LAST NOVEL - RECOVERING
FROM TRAUMA Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko CHAPTER 37 GLADWELL'S CHARMING
CHALLENGE Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell CHAPTER 38 A GHOST, MADNESS, GENIUS,
ROMANCE, AND A HAPPY ENDING! Proof by David Auburn CHAPTER 39 LAST CLASS
APPENDICES