{"product_id":"puzzle-me-the-right-answer-to-that-one-9781475816976","title":"Puzzle Me the Right Answer to that One","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePuzzle Me the Right Answer to that One offers the content of AP English classes. This book intends to serve as a guide and encouragement to educators by showing what can be possible when a teacher enjoys the freedom to find their own voice. Poems, novels, short stories, essays, and plays become the means to have conversations with young people about love and life, peace and war, virtue and vice, joy and grief. The author\/teacher describes creating an environment and curriculum where students could greatly improve their writing skills. He explains the rationale for his presentations and literary selections. Even those who missed a thoughtful introduction to literature the first time around may find a useful beginning in what's presented here. Seeking to engage in the ongoing educational debate in the US, the writer demonstrates how the material presented in these courses can contribute to students' genuine artistic and literary education. These volumes suggest that such reading and writ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you’ve ever wondered what it takes to get students to actually think, these volumes have your answer. How fortunate for us that Joe Riener has distilled decades of teaching experience into these wise and eminently practical volumes. -- Daniel T. Willingham, professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia; frequent contributor to American Educator; author of Raising Kids Who Read, What Parents and Teachers Can Do and Why Don’t Students Like School, A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and…\u003cbr\u003eInstead of presenting us with humdrum aims, objectives, strategies, and skills, Riener takes us directly into literature—from Seamus Heaney to Atul Gawande to Mary Shelley. The point is not to prescribe a model but to invite us to read and think. A refreshing and inspiring read. -- Diana Senechal, author of Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture; teacher, Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering, NYC\u003cbr\u003eSo very helpful to have access to a master teacher’s thoughts, in a clear and careful layout. Riener loves literature, and deeply appreciates the craft of writing, and its communicative and creative opportunities. What is surprising in this text is the depth in which Riener cares about ideas, and about his students as human beings in the process of learning to live their lives. This book is a terrific coaching guide for any new teacher to AP English courses. -- Dr. Shannon Payne, AP English teacher, Sacred Heart Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana\u003cbr\u003eAs a young adult, I experienced Mr. Riener’s teaching first hand. The ideas I explored in his classroom, and the written and spoken dialogue we shared during my junior and senior years, have shaped my worldview and the way I approach literature and writing in powerful and lasting ways.   When I became an English teacher myself, I took much from the experience of having been in his class to inform the way I engaged my students, discussed texts, and encouraged them to push themselves as writers and thinkers. I am extremely excited that Mr. Riener’s unique perspective on teaching will be available to other educators. -- Kate Winterkorn, former student; teacher in Portland, Oregon\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Riener has written a record of his many years as a passionate and talented Teacher-Scholar. The result is an extraordinary compendium: it is partly a guide to the array of literary works that Riener has taught, an array that reaches across centuries, countries and cultures. It is partly a guide to teachers on how to survive the depredations of the current U.S. educational system with my minds and hearts intact. And it at all times a testament to the enduring power of an intellectual committed to inspiring the minds of the future. -- Jeff Nunokawa, professor of English, Princeton University; author or \"Note Book\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME AND FIRST CLASSES “This” by Czeslaw Milosz, “Women and Horses” by Maxine Kumin, poems by Seamus Heaney  CHAPTER 2 \t\tWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THAT? \t\t“What Are You Going to Do with That?” by Mark Danner, and “If We Fail to Act” by Paul Farmer  CHAPTER 3\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tSEX, DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL IN ANCIENT GREECE  The Bacchae by Euripides, translated by David Greig  CHAPTER 4\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tTHE STRUGGLES OF A SURVIVOR   Great Expectations by Charles Dickens   CHAPTER 5\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tHOW THEY DID POLITICS WAY BACK IN THE DAY   Oedipus the King by Sophocles, translated by Robert Fagles  CHAPTER 6 \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tHOW TO RESPOND TO EVIL  \t\t Strength in What Remains, a Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Track Kidder  CHAPTER 7\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tAMERICAN SILENCE  selections from The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb by Gar Alperowitz  CHAPTER 8\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tWHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE 20TH CENTURY  “Holocaust: The Ignored Reality” by Timothy Synder and “What Have We Learned, if Anything? By Tony Judt   CHAPTER 9\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tA VIGILANCE THAT MUST NEVER FALTER  The Plague by Albert Camus  CHAPTER 10\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tGLIMPSES AT THE TRAGEDY THAT HAS LED TO A CURRENT REVOLUTION   “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx, selections from Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton, and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde  CHAPTER 11\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \t\tSOME REMARKS ABOUT SENIOR ESSAYS  CHAPTER 12\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tTO RUSSIA, WITH LOVE AND POETRY  “First Loves” by Michael Ignatieff and selected poems of Anna Akhmatova  CHAPTER 13\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tTHE ROLE OF THE ARTIST WITH CULTURE   Review of and selections from Radical Hope, Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, by Jonathan Lear   CHAPTER 14\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tAFTERWARDS, HOW DO YOU LIVE A LIFE?  Beloved by Toni Morrison  CHAPTER 15\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tDO WE DARE? \t\tThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare  CHAPTER 16\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tHOW CAN THIS MURDERER BE UNDERSTOOD?  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky   CHAPTER 17\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tA PORTRAIT OF A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN AND A MADMAN, IN LONDON, IN 1923 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf   CHAPTER 18\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tNOW, WHO’S THE MONSTER HERE?  FRANKENSTEIN, 1818 edition, by Mary Shelley   CHAPTER 19\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tAN ENGAGED INTELLECTUAL, CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO PEOPLES selections from Once Upon a Country A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh and a review of the book by Amos Elon   CHAPTER 20 \t\tTHOUGHTS ON SENIORITIS AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE AND THE GLORIES OF A HIATUS IN A YOUNG PERSON’S LIFE  CHAPTER 21\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tAMBIGUITY AND OUR DECISIONS IN HISTORY  Copenhagen, a play by Michael Frayn   CHAPTER 22\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tOUR LANGUAGE’S FIRST STORY  Beowulf a new verse translation with an introduction by Seamus Heaney     CHAPTER 23\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tFROM A BIT OF READING, A BIG IDEA  Brief selections from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Samuel Putnam, and, indirectly, “The Imitation of Our Lord Don Quixote” by Simon Leys   CHAPTER 24\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tLOVE AND VIOLENCE AMONG THE YOUNG  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare   CHAPTER 25\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tSOME POETS AND POEMS  “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth, “Easter, 1916\" and “Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats, “East Coker” by T.S. Eliot, poems by Wislawa Szymborska  CHAPTER 26 \t\tHOW TO DEAL WITH PUSHY PARENTS  CHAPTER 27 \t\tTEACHING AS BOTH A POSSIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE JOB  CHAPTER 28 \t\tDEALING WITH TERRIBLE EVENTS  CHAPTER 29 \t\tCLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND ITS ILLS  CHAPTER 30  \t\tTEACHERS, STUDENTS AND MENTAL ILLNESS  APPENDICES","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040178897239,"sku":"9781475816976","price":56.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475816976.jpg?v=1750945965","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/puzzle-me-the-right-answer-to-that-one-9781475816976","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}