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Informationen zum Autor By 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 PREFACEINTRODUCTION 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 GawandeCHAPTER 4 THE FIRST NOVEL: Cider House Rules by John IrvingCHAPTER 5 FIRST NONFICTION BOOK Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderCHAPTER 6 FIRST REAL PIECE OF ANALYSIS "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel HawthorneCHAPTER 7 A MODERN WOMAN Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonCHAPTER 8 ADDING MALCOLM GLADWELL TO THE MIX"The Talent Myth" and "Million-Dollar Murray" by Malcolm Gladwell, available at Gladwell.comCHAPTER 9 HENRY JAMES AND A WEE BIT OF QUEER THEORY"The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry JamesCHAPTER 10 HABEAS CORPUS DOESN'T MEAN MUCH UNTIL THEY PUT THE HANDCUFFS ON YOU "Do You Want Your Kid to Disappear?" by Nadya LabiCHAPTER 11 EMBRACING HOLDENCatcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerCHAPTER 12 RANT NUMBER ONE: REMARKS ON COMMON CORE WRITING STANDARDSCHAPTER 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 MelvilleCHAPTER 14 SPENDING AWHILE WITH HUCK AND JIMThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCHAPTER 15 RANT NUMBER TWO: ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF TEACHING ANYONE TO WRITECHAPTER 16 POETS AND SOME OF THEIR POEMSpoems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Stanley KunitzCHAPTER 17 A 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 18 HEROES, 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 19 HAPPY 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 22 HOW EVIL HARMS THE PARTICIPANT"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel HawthorneCHAPTER 23 THE POWER OF YOUTH AND LOVEThe House of Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneCHAPTER 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 BETTERThe Checklist Manifesto, How to Get Things Right, by Atul GawandeCHAPTER 26 WHAT DOES MODERN MEA...
