The hundreds of books and articles on Huckleberry Finn have failed to answer a basic question about the novel: Does the ending belong to the book? Answering “No” as many critics of the book have done puts students of American literature in an embarrassing position. Almost all such critics consider Huckleberry Finn not just an interesting novel, but a very great novel, one of the supreme American works of art. PMLA, the official publication of university English studies, has declared it a national treasure.
Drawing from a teaching model designed to banish boredom and student apathy, this book explains how dramatic practices can serve as powerful tools for enlivening lessons and captivating students, even the most resistant learners. Filled with intriguing classroom examples, Pogrow shows how any teacher can make use of dramatic techniques, such as surprise, humor, fantasy, role plays, games, and simulations to create standards-based content lessons that are riveting, effective, and meaningful. The author explains how to design such lessons into any content area.
"One of the requisites for an actor is to be able to take the words off the page and make them his own. Lena Harris makes that ever so easy." – ROBERT WAGNER LENA HARRIS, award-winning actor and renowned acting coach, has written these twenty-five original scenes for two to four persons to both train developing actors and showcase, to best advantage, their talents. Unable to find scenes from existing plays that would best exercise the dramatic skills of her acting students, Harris decided to sit down and pen her own dramatic situations.
The premise of this book is simple and straightforward: how to get the most dramatic results from a home improvement with the least amount of complication and work. Geared to the beginning do-it-yourselfer, the projects include replacing a faucet, installing a half shelf on a wall, changing the colors of an entryway for dramatic effect, building shutters or a window box, hanging a pot rack, and dozens of projects explained step by step, listing the tools and materials needed for each, and well illustrated throughout with clear drawings, diagrams, and photographs.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the first explorers traveled from Europe to the land of Egypt and searched for archaeological treasures along the banks of the Nile. But the realm of the pharaohs presented them with puzzling questions. Who were these rulers? Where did their immense riches come from? And why was so much of it lost to the sands of the desert? Discover the history, culture and key figures of ancient Egypt from its mere beginnings until its dramatic Roman conquest.
