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Informationen zum Autor Joseph F. Riener Klappentext Teach Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE INTRODUCTION TO BOTH VOLUMES CHAPTER 1 FIRST FOUR CLASSES "Tiger Face" by Stephen Dunn, "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost, "Practice Makes Perfect - But Only If You Practice Beyond the Point of Perfection" by Dan Willingham; "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of the Imagination" by J.K. Rowling CHAPTER 2 SOME INITIAL REMARKS ABOUT ESSAY WRITING CHAPTER 3 FIFTH AND SIXTH CLASSES "Keith" and other stories, by Ron Carlson; "The Cost Conundrum" by Atul Gawande CHAPTER 4 THE FIRST NOVEL: Cider House Rules by John Irving CHAPTER 5 FIRST NONFICTION BOOK Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder CHAPTER 6 FIRST REAL PIECE OF ANALYSIS "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER 7 A MODERN WOMAN Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston CHAPTER 8 ADDING MALCOLM GLADWELL TO THE MIX "The Talent Myth" and "Million-Dollar Murray" by Malcolm Gladwell, available at Gladwell.com CHAPTER 9 HENRY JAMES AND A WEE BIT OF QUEER THEORY "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James CHAPTER 10 HABEAS CORPUS DOESN'T MEAN MUCH UNTIL THEY PUT THE HANDCUFFS ON YOU "Do You Want Your Kid to Disappear?" by Nadya Labi CHAPTER 11 EMBRACING HOLDEN Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger CHAPTER 12 RANT NUMBER ONE: REMARKS ON COMMON CORE WRITING STANDARDS CHAPTER 13 THE AMERICAN HEART IN ITS DARKNESS: RACISM IN LITERATURE AND LIFE "The Big American Crime" an essay in The New York Review of Books by Edmund Morgan, poems by Phillis Wheatley, "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville CHAPTER 14 SPENDING AWHILE WITH HUCK AND JIM The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain CHAPTER 15 RANT NUMBER TWO: ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF TEACHING ANYONE TO WRITE CHAPTER 16 POETS AND SOME OF THEIR POEMS poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Stanley Kunitz CHAPTER 17 A FORAY INTO THEORY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The Ghost Map, The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson CHAPTER 18 HEROES, THE TRUTH, AND THE DANGER TO US ALL consideration of some people talked about in Speak Truth to Power, Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, by Kerry Kennedy, photographs by Eddie Adams, edited by Nan Richardson; "Examined Life" by Malcolm Gladwell; selections from Collapse, How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed, by Jared Diamond, Malcolm Gladwell's review of the book, and a Jared Diamond review of other books CHAPTER 19 HAPPY ENDING: MOVING AWAY FROM THE CANON The Shipping News by Annie Proulx CHAPTER 20 LIVING WITH THE UNLIVEABLE The Center Cannot Hold, My Journey Through Madness, by Elyn Saks CHAPTER 21 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR STUDENT WRITING CHAPTER 22 HOW EVIL HARMS THE PARTICIPANT "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER 23 THE POWER OF YOUTH AND LOVE The House of Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER 24 A JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS readings: "An Anatomy of Melacholy", Andrew Solomon;a selection from Night Falls Fast, Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison; "Bartleby the Scrivner" by Herman Melville CHAPTER 25 HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER The Checklist Manifes...
