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Informationen zum Autor Joseph F. Riener has been involved with education and its issues for a lifetime. He most recently taught AP English at a large urban high school for 17 years. 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 PREFACEINTRODUCTION TO BOTH VOLUMESCHAPTER 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. RowlingCHAPTER 2 SOME INITIAL REMARKS ABOUT ESSAY WRITINGCHAPTER 3FIFTH AND SIXTH CLASSES"Keith" and other stories, by Ron Carlson; "The Cost Conundrum" by Atul GawandeCHAPTER 4THE FIRST NOVEL: Cider House Rules by John IrvingCHAPTER 5FIRST NONFICTION BOOKMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderCHAPTER 6FIRST REAL PIECE OF ANALYSIS"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel HawthorneCHAPTER 7A MODERN WOMANTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonCHAPTER 8ADDING MALCOLM GLADWELL TO THE MIX"The Talent Myth" and "Million-Dollar Murray" by Malcolm Gladwell, available at Gladwell.comCHAPTER 9HENRY JAMES AND A WEE BIT OF QUEER THEORY"The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry JamesCHAPTER 10HABEAS CORPUS DOESN'T MEAN MUCH UNTIL THEY PUT THE HANDCUFFS ON YOU"Do You Want Your Kid to Disappear?" by Nadya LabiCHAPTER 11EMBRACING HOLDENCatcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerCHAPTER 12RANT NUMBER ONE: REMARKS ON COMMON CORE WRITING STANDARDSCHAPTER 13THE 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 MelvilleCHAPTER 14SPENDING AWHILE WITH HUCK AND JIMThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCHAPTER 15RANT NUMBER TWO: ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF TEACHING ANYONE TO WRITECHAPTER 16POETS AND SOME OF THEIR POEMSpoems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Stanley KunitzCHAPTER 17A FORAY INTO THEORY AND ITS CONSEQUENCESThe Ghost Map, The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven JohnsonCHAPTER 18HEROES, THE TRUTH, AND THE DANGER TO US ALLconsideration 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 19HAPPY ENDING: MOVING AWAY FROM THE CANONThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxCHAPTER 20 LIVING WITH THE UNLIVEABLEThe Center Cannot Hold, My Journey Through Madness, by Elyn SaksCHAPTER 21 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR STUDENT WRITINGCHAPTER 22HOW EVIL HARMS THE PARTICIPANT"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel HawthorneCHAPTER 23THE POWER OF YOUTH AND LOVEThe House of Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneCHAPTER 24A JOURNEY INTO DARKNESSreadings: "An Anatomy of Melacholy", Andrew Solomon;a selection from Night Falls Fast, Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison; "Bartleby the Scrivner" by Herman MelvilleCHAPTER 25 HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTERThe Checklist Manifesto, How to Get Things Right, by Atul GawandeCHAPTER 26WHAT DOES MODERN MEAN? "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. EliotCHAPTER 27 TWO POINTS OF VIEW: Tee...
