"50 Essential Lessons" is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world. Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive [...]
They Say / I Say demystifies academic discourse and shows students that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves the most important of which is to summarize what others have said ( they say ) in order to set up one s own argument ( I say ). Students learn that writing is always part of[...]
"An outstanding introduction to Whitman's life and work. This superb volume can be used to teach literature or to show a variety of poetic devices and style."--"School Library Journal"[...]