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This new edition of Teaching Secondary English is thoroughly revised, but its purpose has not changed. Like the popular first edition, it balances content knowledge with methodology, theory with practice, and problem-posing with suggested solutions. The tone and format are inviting, while addressing student-readers on a professional level. Rather than attempting to cover everything, the text provides a framework and materials for teaching a secondary English methods course, while allowing considerable choice for the instructor. The focus is on teaching literature, writing, and language--the ba

Title Teaching secondary English : readings and applications / [edited by] Daniel Sheridan.
Edition 2nd ed.
Publisher Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates
Creation Date 2001
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content ""Cover""
""TEACHING SECONDARY English: READINGS AND APPLICATIONS""
""Copyright""
""Contents""
""Preface""
""1 English Teachers""
""Introduction""
""READINGS AND APPLICATIONS""
""A Target on the Blackboard""
""For Further Thought""
""Application 1.1: Remembering Your English Teachers""
""“Where�s That Fairy Dust When You Need It?� (A Conversation About Student Teaching)""
""Application 1.2: What Makes an Effective English Teacher?""
""Writing Assignment: Telling Your Story""
""For Further Reading""
""2 Reading Literature""
""READINGS AND APPLICATIONS""""A PERFORMING ART""
""Application 2.1: A Look at Three Lesson Plans""
""READER-RESPONSE THEORY AND THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM""
""Application 2.2: Working With Student Response""
""MAKING TIME""
""Application 2.3: Adapting the Reading Workshop""
""PROVOCATIONS""
""Writing Assignment: A Literature Lesson""
""3 Choosing Texts""
""Canons to Right of Them, Canons to Left of Them, Canons in Front of Them, Volley�d and Thunder�d""""For Further Thought""
""Application 3.1: The Process of Choosing""
""Academic Guidelines for Selecting Multiethnic and Multicultural Literature""
""Application 3.2: Dealing With Diversity""
""It�s the THAT, Teacher""
""Application 3.3: Working With Young Adult Literature""
""Protecting Holden Caulfield and His Friends From the Censors""
""Application 3.4: Thinking About Censorship""
""Writing Assignment: Building a Unit""""For Further Reading""
""4 Teaching Writing""
""Write Before Writing""
""Application 4.1: Finding and Exploring a Topic""
""Responding to Student Writing""
""Application 4.2: Working With Student Drafts""
""Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment""
""Application 4.3: Evaluating Student Writing""
""Process Writing and the Secondary School Reality: A Compromise""
""Application 4.4: Adapting the Writing Workshop""""Teaching Poetry Writing to Adolescents: Models and Teaching Designs""
""Application 4.5: Reading and Writing Poetry""
""Writing Assignment: Creating a Writing Assignment""
""5 Teaching About Language""
""Language Variation in the United States""
""Application 5.1: Four Aspects of Language""
""Parsing the Question: “Why Teach Grammar?�""
""Application 5.2: Grammar for Teachers?""
""Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing""
Extent 1 online resource (387 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997012410359705171
MARC RECORDS

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