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" If you teach it, they will read : "
John V. MacLean
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BL
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694222
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b516411
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MacLean, John V
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If you teach it, they will read : : literature's life lessons for today's students /\ John V. MacLean
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, MD :: Rowman & Littlefield Education,, c2010
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xvi, 149 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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160709777x
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: 1607097788
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: 9781607097778
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: 9781607097785
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1607097796
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9781607097792
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Contents
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Introduction : why read good books? -- The search for identity : Cyrano de Bergerac and A Lesson Before Dying -- Rite of passage : The Odyssey, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Heart of Darkness -- The quest : Arthurian legends, Siddhartha, and Song of Solomon -- I want a hero : The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Hamlet -- The anti-hero : Native Son and The Stranger -- Literary devices -- A woman's place : Medea and A Doll's House -- The little things that matter : Emma and Pride and Prejudice -- Dealing with loss : "the wanderer," the Hemingway hero, and The Tempest -- The need to dream : Of Mice and Men, The Glass Menagerie, and The Great Gatsby -- The weight of the past : Oedipus and The Piano Lesson -- Private morality and second chances : The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, and The Kite Runner -- Throwing the good away : Macbeth, Fences, and Death of a Salesman -- Love, actually : Twelfth Night, Othello, and Wuthering Heights -- Some great deed : The Iliad -- Final thoughts
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What does it mean to "teach" a poem, novel or play? Surely it is about lessons in comprehension and improvements in language facility, but what does literature teach us beyond literacy? Students can read substantive literature for what its authors intended: an insight into the human condition. Students, even those who appear indifferent, struggle with questions of right and wrong, good and evil, love and loss, self-interest and self-sacrifice. Using literature he has used with his students, the author insists that asking the right questions, discussing ideas that still matter, will show students that others have wrestled with the same issues, expressing that struggle in timeless stories. For the teacher of literature, the student of literature, the lover of literature, this book is a reminder of why, in the words of Maya Angelou, "we stumble and fall, and how, miraculously, we can stand up." What more important lesson is there?
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English language-- Composition and exercises-- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Language arts (Secondary)
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Reading (Secondary)
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LB1528.M283 2010
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