Differentiated Instruction for Advanced Students provides multiple opportunities to engage students and to teach them the skills necessary to excel in college-level, literature-based reading, thinking, discussion, and writing tasks. This supplement contains extended lessons for four selections from each unit in the Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature Student Edition. Each lesson focuses on a particular selection in the textbook. The lesson expands on an aspect of that selection, often in many cases taking students outside the textbook and connecting them with other pieces of literature or fields of study.
The Teacher’s Magazine is a monthly issue specially designed for teachers of English as Foreign or Second Language. It provides creative ready-to-go materials to make their classes more active and appealing to students. The ideal magazine for English teachers that choose to work effectively with students of all levels and ages and an asset at the moment of developing contents.
Issues of race and racism permeate American society and are of central concern to students and teachers. The chapters in this reference explore how these issues have been addressed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Native Son, The House on Mango Street, Ceremony, and other major novels widely read by high school students. The works discussed reflect racial issues from a range of cultural perspectives. Each chapter is devoted to a particular novel and provides a plot summary, an overview of the work's historical background, a literary analysis, and suggestions for further reading.
Disney Educational - BN- Bill Nye The Science Guy: Pressure
Keeping students' attention can be a challenging feat, as many parents and educators know. Bill Nye brings out every trick in the book to get kids interested in scientific concepts, and his successful strategies can be seen in each episode of the Bill Nye the Science Guy series. In Bill Nye the Science Guy: Pressure, Nye goes scuba diving to show students the concept of underwater pressure. He also journeys to Hoover Dam and wields a jackhammer to check out more about pressure.
With a strong applied focus, WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? ESSENTIALS, 2nd Edition, captures and holds students' attention from the first page to the last. Ellen Pastorino and Susann Doyle-Portillo, award-winning psychology professors with an infectious enthusiasm for teaching, have found that students who are curious are motivated to explore and truly learn how psychological concepts are connected.