{"product_id":"teaching-challenging-texts-9781475805208","title":"Teaching Challenging Texts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments.Exploring the Future features fiction by George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, and WilliamGolding; nonfiction by Philip Zimbardo, Stephen Pinker, Abraham Lincoln, Jared Diamond, Dan Ariely, and Ray Kurzweil; images from several films, an old television commercial; and classical and contemporary music.Understanding the Power of One features fiction by Victor Hugo and Lori Halse Anderson; nonfiction by Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, and Edith Hamilton; a young adult book on archaeology, an animated film from Walt Disney, and an episode from Saturday Night Live.An extensive list of free resources and correlations to the Common Core allow teachers to teach on the cheap. Teaching Difficult Texts brims with r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeaching Challenging Texts takes on an nearly insurmountable goal, seeking to blend a powerful commitment to adolescent-centered teaching with the demands of standards-based accountability and the needs of pragmatic educators. This book succeeds in its goal and should provide thoughtful educators with an invaluable resource as they build classrooms where students and texts matter. -- Paul Thomas\u003cbr\u003eAdolescents deserve to have their teachers read Teaching Challenging Texts. It's filled with practical ideas for middle and high school teachers as they consider the ways in which students can be engaged in authentic learning tasks. The texts used as exemplars are worthy, complex, and relevant to the lives of adolescents, and students everywhere will appreciate the lessons they receive from their teachers who read this book. -- Doug Fisher, Ph.D., professor at San Diego State University and author of “Text Complexity” (2012) and “Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives” (2011)\u003cbr\u003eWe teachers face our toughest adversary ever: Technology that is driving our students away from reading, enjoying and learning much from the great bounty of literature that provides the depth and breadth of essential knowledge. Baines \u0026amp; Fisher's challenging book is a must read for all of us to become better teachers of this new generation. -- Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D., former President of the American Psychological Association, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, author of “The Time Paradox” (2009) and “The Lucifer Effect” (2008)\u003cbr\u003eTo read Teaching Challenging Texts is to have a warm conversation with colleagues over a cup of coffee about how to teach in the visual-verbal world in which we all live. A breakthrough set of teaching strategies for a new age. -- Mike Angelotti, teacher, poet, artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents Foreword Chapter 1  Reading as a Social Activity      Rules of the Game      Adolescence      Slaying the Deer      Good MAP and Bad MAP      Reading by Choice      The Common Core      How to Use This Book      Reading to the BRIMS Chapter 2 Exploring the Future in High School      A Fresh Start           Lesson 1: Clues about Character           Lesson 2: Word Choice      Environmental Effects           Lesson 3: Ethics and Actions           Lesson 4: The Note-Draft           Lesson 5: Synthesizing Data      Introducing 1984           Lesson 6: One Minute Jolt           Lesson 7: Understanding Words in Context           Lesson 8: Connotations           Lesson 9: Rewriting the Constitution           Lesson 10: Rewriting the Gettysburg Address      1984, Part Two           Lesson 11: Character Clues             Lesson 12: The Future of Oceania           Lesson 13: The U.S. and the Next 100 Years      1984, Part Three           Lesson 14: Character Transformation           Lesson 15: Film Crew      Transcendent Man Research Project           Lesson 16: The Singularity      How Long Will You Live? Research Project           Lesson 17: How Long Will You Live? Exploring the Future Handouts      Handout 1: Clues about Character      Handout 2: Action Verbs in Lord of the Flies      Handout 3: Scenario 1      Handout 4: Scenario 2      Handout 5: America’s Wars      Handout 6: Deaths in Historical Perspective      Handout 7: Excerpt from 1984 by George Orwell      Handout 8:  Cool Names for a Band, Uncool        Names      Handout 9:  Rewriting Lincoln’s Gettysburg       Address       Handout 10: Getting to Know Winston      Handout 11: Getting to Know Julia      Handout 12: The Future of Oceania      Handout 13: Facts about the United States      Handout 14:  The United States and the Next 100       Years      Handout 15: Evaluation for the United States and       the Next 100 Years      Handout 16: The Evolution of Winston      Handout 17: The Evolution of Julia      Handout 18: Checklist and Assessment for Film       Crew      Handout 19:  Directions for Film Crew      Handout 20:  Kurzweil AI Summary Report      Handout 21: How Long Will You Live? Exploring the Future, Free Resources and Correlations to the Common Core Chapter 3 Understanding the Power of One in Middle School      Introduction to Chains           Lesson 1: Quick Narrative      Everyday journals      Tech-y Check-ins           Lesson 2: Courtroom Debate Prep           Lesson 3: Courtroom Debate           Lesson 4: So You Think You Can Dance, 1776           Lesson 5: A Guide Map of New York           Lesson 6: Lyrical Message Mystery           Lesson 7: The Great New York Fire of 1776           Lesson 8: A Scar is Worth a Thousand Words      A Day in the Life: Research Project      Tackling Victor Hugo           Lesson 9: Satire Night Live           Lesson 10: Frollo: Friend or Foe?           Lesson 11: Character Yin-Yangs           Lesson 12: Mythological Allusions           Lesson 13: Charter Speed-Dating           Lesson 14: The Hunchback of Notre Dame,           Real to Reel      Digging Through the Dirt           Lesson 15: Archaeology Say What?           Lesson 16: What’s Your Story?           Lesson 17: Fossil Biographies           Lesson 18: Archeological Vocabulary           Lesson 19: Symbolism: Cave Art           Lesson 20: Look Who’s Talking           Lesson 21: Annotating Otzi Understanding The Power of One Handouts      Handout 1: Courtroom Debate Prep Day 1      Handout 2: Courtroom Debate Prep Day 2      Handout 3: New York: A Guide Map      Handout 4: Lyrical Message Mystery 1      Handout 5: Lyrical Message Mystery 2      Handout 6: The Great New York Fire of 1776      Handout 7: Body Biographies       Handout 8: A Day in the Life Research Project      Handout 9: Satire Night Live      Handout 10: Character Charts      Handout 11: Frollo: Friend or Foe?      Handout 12: Character Yin-Yangs       Handout 13: Mythological Allusions      Handout 14: Character Speed Dating      Handout 15: Reel to Real Questions      Handout 16: Symbolism: Cave Art      Handout 17: Look Who’s Talking      Handout 18: Annotating Otzi      Handout 19: Annotation Aids Understanding the Power of One, Free Resources and Correlations to the Common Core References","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040147538263,"sku":"9781475805208","price":68.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475805208.jpg?v=1750945879","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/teaching-challenging-texts-9781475805208","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}