This is the tool teachers have been waiting for to explore important themes and to motivate students to become involved in the literature experience. Each title was carefully chosen using as criteria the quality of the writing, the importance of its message, and how easily it could serve as a springboard to junior novels that explore the same theme.
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.
This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be “hero.”
From Penguin USA: What if following her heart means rose could lose her best friend forever? Rose Hathaway knows it is forbidden to love another guardian. Her best friend, Lissa-the last Dragomir princess-must always come first. Unfortunately, when it comes to gorgeous Dimitri Belikov, some rules are meant to be broken... But since making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn`t been feeling right. Something dark has begun to grow in her mind, and ghostly shadows warn of a terrible evil drawing nearer to the Academy`s iron gates...
TIMESAVER EXTRACTS 2 Nigel Newbrook Upper-Intermediate - Advanced 96pp CD or cassette This book provides 14 authentic extracts from modern and classical literature: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Jane Austen, About a Boy, H.G. Wells, and Captain Correlli’s Mandolin, and more. The extracts are followed by two photocopiable exercises and include a wide variety of language practice, such as reading comprehension, vocabulary exercises, discussion activities, role-play, and develops reading skills, summary techniques and stylistic appreciation for the Cambridge CAE and CPE examinations. REUPLOADED by IrinaM
