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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Carol Rawlings Miller leads us--and in turn our students--into urgent conversations that have become all too scarce in many classrooms in recent years, places where the curriculum has become all too safe, too plain. When she pairs Martin Luther King and Shakespeare, there is a resounding cymbal crash in the head, as there is when Miller serves up speeches by Susan Sontag and George W. Bush. A stranger set of bedfellows has not been seen in some time. Miller has created a course of study that will bring back to the classroom something of the fire it once had but which recent movements have dampened. --Jim Burke Author of TheEnglish Teacher's Companion, Third Edition   What do Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama have in common? When it comes to helping students become savvy about genre, rhetoric, and language: everything. In Strange BedfellowsCarol Rawlings Miller pairs short pieces by famous writers and speakers for side-by-side discussion and frames these pairs in lessons that help students meet a variety of curricular goals.   With Strange Bedfellowsyour students will study the traits of effective writing and persuasion. They'll also sharpen their critical-reading skills through exposure to a variety of texts and authors: Martin Luther King, Jr., and William Shakespeare Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger George W. Bush and Susan Sontag Jonathan Swift and Leonard Lewin Joseph Mitchell and Orhan Pamuk. Miller saves you hours of prep time. She's built ready-to-use, discussion-based lessons around each literary odd couple that help students think critically and find solid approaches to more complicated texts. In each lesson you'll find that: Every text is line-numbered for easy reference during discussion. Key definitions and contextual notes at point of use support deeper understanding. Discussion points, questions for readers, and writing activities accompany each lesson. Blackline masters of all texts and student forms are in the book.   From the Bard to Barack. From the Maginot Line to the World Trade Center. With Strange Bedfellowsit's never been easier to find high-quality instruction that engages students with top-notch, real-world texts. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Carol Rawlings Miller leads us--and in turn our students--into urgent conversations that have become all too scarce in many classrooms in recent years, places where the curriculum has become all too safe, too plain. When she pairs Martin Luther King and Shakespeare, there is a resounding cymbal crash in the head, as there is when Miller serves up speeches by Susan Sontag and George W. Bush. A stranger set of bedfellows has not been seen in some time. Miller has created a course of study that will bring back to the classroom something of the fire it once had but which recent movements have dampened. --Jim Burke Author of TheEnglish Teacher's Companion, Third Edition   What do Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama have in common? When it comes to helping students become savvy about genre, rhetoric, and language: everything. In Strange BedfellowsCarol Rawlings Miller pairs short pieces by famous writers and speakers for side-by-side discussion and frames these pairs in lessons that help students meet a variety of curricular goals.   With Strange Bedfellowsyour students will study the traits of effective writing and persuasion. They'll also sharpen their critical-reading skills through exposure to a variety of texts and authors: Martin Luther King, Jr., and William Shakespeare Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger George W. Bush and Susan Sontag Jonathan Swift and Leonard Lewin Joseph Mitchell and Orhan Pamuk. Miller saves you hours of prep time. She's built ready-to-use, discussion-based lessons around each literary odd couple that help students think critically and find solid approaches to more complicated texts. In each lesson you'll find that: Every text is line-numbered for easy reference during discussion. Key definitions and contextual notes at point of use support deeper understanding. Discussion points, questions for readers, and writing activities accompany each lesson. Blackline masters of all texts and student forms are in the book.   From the Bard to Barack. From the Maginot Line to the World Trade Center. With Strange Bedfellowsit's never been easier to find high-quality instruction that engages students with top-notch, real-world texts.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Do you have a minute? That's how quickly this book will help you improve your students' reading skills. Designed to be read on the run and make every minute count in your classroom, Reading Remindersfeatures Jim Burke's one hundred best techniques for teaching reading, complete with tools and tips on how to implement them. Jim wrote this book to help teachers like himself whose often large and always diverse classrooms contain a wide range of reading abilities and needs. All of the strategies have been tested and tested again with his students, and each one has achieved significant gains in student performance, confidence, and engagement. Together, the reminders will challenge your best students and support struggling ones. This book will help you: teach students to read a variety of types of texts, including websites, tests, literature, and textbooks use a wide range of teaching and reading strategies based on current reading research anchor your teaching in state and national reading standards establish and maintain a comprehensive reading program that includes Sustained Silent Reading and direct instruction plan your lessons, select your texts, and assess students' learning with tools and techniques specifically designed for those purposes improve your students' ability to discuss and understand what they read develop a community of reflective readers within your classroom increase the amount of writing your students do. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Do you have a minute? That's how quickly this book will help you improve your students' reading skills. Designed to be read on the run and make every minute count in your classroom, Reading Remindersfeatures Jim Burke's one hundred best techniques for teaching reading, complete with tools and tips on how to implement them. Jim wrote this book to help teachers like himself whose often large and always diverse classrooms contain a wide range of reading abilities and needs. All of the strategies have been tested and tested again with his students, and each one has achieved significant gains in student performance, confidence, and engagement. Together, the reminders will challenge your best students and support struggling ones. This book will help you: teach students to read a variety of types of texts, including websites, tests, literature, and textbooks use a wide range of teaching and reading strategies based on current reading research anchor your teaching in state and national reading standards establish and maintain a comprehensive reading program that includes Sustained Silent Reading and direct instruction plan your lessons, select your texts, and assess students' learning with tools and techniques specifically designed for those purposes improve your students' ability to discuss and understand what they read develop a community of reflective readers within your classroom increase the amount of writing your students do.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Do you have a minute? That's how quickly this book will help you improve your students' reading skills. Designed to be read on the run and make every minute count in your classroom, Reading Remindersfeatures Jim Burke's one hundred best techniques for teaching reading, complete with tools and tips on how to implement them. Jim wrote this book to help teachers like himself whose often large and always diverse classrooms contain a wide range of reading abilities and needs. All of the strategies have been tested and tested again with his students, and each one has achieved significant gains in student performance, confidence, and engagement. Together, the reminders will challenge your best students and support struggling ones. This book will help you: teach students to read a variety of types of texts, including websites, tests, literature, and textbooks use a wide range of teaching and reading strategies based on current reading research anchor your teaching in state and national reading standards establish and maintain a comprehensive reading program that includes Sustained Silent Reading and direct instruction plan your lessons, select your texts, and assess students' learning with tools and techniques specifically designed for those purposes improve your students' ability to discuss and understand what they read develop a community of reflective readers within your classroom increase the amount of writing your students do. …

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Part of the 'Poetry for Young People' series, this book offers a short introduction to Walt Whitman's life and work, including a short biography and 26 collected poems. Burke, Jim (illustrator).

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Download a sample chapter As a novice teacher, Meenoo Rami experienced the same anxieties shared by many: the sense of isolation, lack of self-confidence, and fear that her work was having no positive impact on her students. In Thrive, Meenoo shares the five strategies that helped her become a confident, connected teacher. From how to find mentors and build networks, both online and off, to advocating for yourself and empowering your students, Thrive shows new and veteran teachers alike how to overcome the challenges and meet the demands of our profession. Praise for Thrive Whether you are entering your first year of teaching or your 40th, Thrive feels as if it were written just for you. At a time in our profession when many of us are feeling stretched thin, Meenoo Rami offers strategies to reignite our passions and rediscover why we chose to teach. -Christopher Lehman, coauthor of Falling in Love with Close Reading Teaching is a profession that eats its young. Meenoo Rami offers guidelines for surviving the challenges of the classroom as well as the faculty room. -Carol Jago, author, teacher, and past president of NCTE Thrive includes a mosaic of dynamic teacher voices from many grade levels and content areas. Reading their stories deepened my thinking about the immense untapped potential of our profession. Meenoo Rami's vision of teaching and learning can sustain us all. -Penny Kittle, author of Book Love Join the conversation on Twitter at #edthrive.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Created by Jim Burke, a master teacher with over twenty years of high school teaching experience and bestselling author of numerous professional books, this reader helps students envision identities and possibilities outside of the classroom while balancing new freedoms with new responsibilities after graduation. Its eight units engage students in discussions and activities about education, credo, power, relationships, identity, freedom, decisions, and success. Designed to be used alone or in conjunction with longer works of fiction and nonfiction, Uncharted Territory features opportunities throughout the book and teaching package to link to popular and canonical texts, such as Walden, Hamlet, and Frankenstein.…