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Using Informational Text to Teach The Great Gatsby
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781475831023
Umbreit-Nr.: 2119846
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 200 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 22.03.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span>The Common Core State Standards initiated major changes for language arts teachers, particularly the emphasis on informational text. Language arts teachers were asked to shift attention toward informational texts without taking away from the teaching of literature.</span></span><br><br><span><span>Teachers, however, need to incorporate nonfiction in ways that enhance rather than take away from their teaching of literature.</span><span></span><span>The</span><span>Using Informational Text</span><span>series is designed to help.</span></span><br><br><span><span>In this fourth volume (Volume 1:</span><span>Using Informational Text to Teach</span><span>To Kill a Mockingbird</span><span>;</span><span>Volume 2:</span><span> Using Informational Text to Teach</span><span> A Raisin in the Sun; Volume 3:</span><span>Connecting Across Disciplines: Collaborating with Informational Text</span><span>), we offer challenging and engaging readings to enhance your teaching of</span><span>Gatsby</span><span>.</span></span><br><br><span><span>Texts from a wide range of genres (a TED Talk, federal legislation, economic policy material, newspaper articles, and 1920s political writing) and on a variety of topics (income inequality, nativism and immigration, anti-Semitism, the relationship between wealth and cheating, the Black Sox scandal and newspaper coverage, and prohibition) help students answer essential questions about F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel.</span></span><br><br><span><span>Each informational text is part of a student-friendly unit, with media links, reading strategies, vocabulary, discussion, and writing activities, and out-of-the-box class activities.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>This book offers challenging and engaging readings to enhance your teaching of </span><span>The Great Gatsby</span><span> with texts from a wide range of genres and topics to help students answer essential questions about the novel. Each informational text is part of a unit, with media links, reading strategies, vocabulary, writing activities, and class activities.</span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span>Audrey Fisch</span><span> is Professor of English and Coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University where she has taught for over twenty years.</span></span><br><br><span><span>Susan Chenelle</span><span> is Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction at University Academy Charter High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, where she taught English and journalism for several years.</span></span>