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.

Product Description: What do adolescents care about? Chatting on-line with friends, movies, their favorite bands . . . but many are also avid readers. What motivates some of these 'typical teens' to become lifelong readers and others to slide by with the minimum amount of assigned reading? Teri Lesesne says the key is finding the books that get them hooked in the first place...read more

A best books guide for teenagers contains seven essays, and includes an index of more than seventy subjects and an annotated list of hundreds of recommended great books.

A best books guide for teenagers contains seven essays, and includes an index of more than seventy subjects and an annotated list of hundreds of recommended great books.

Product Description: What do adolescents care about? Chatting on-line with friends, movies, their favorite bands . . . but many are also avid readers. What motivates some of these 'typical teens' to become lifelong readers and others to slide by with the minimum amount of assigned reading? Teri Lesesne says the key is finding the books that get them hooked in the first place...read more

Product Description: Whether it's television, film, print, or the Internet, our world is saturated with visual images. That flow has become so persistent, so insistent, we can no longer dismiss its impact on our students' perceptions. We need to make media literacy a vital component of language arts education and equip our students to analyze and respond critically to media texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses using King's works in the classroom

Product Description: This book describes an interdisciplinary literature-based educational program, demonstrating how multiculturalization of a traditional curriculum can move from creating awareness to changing perceptions and instilling new attitudes...read more

Provides an annotated listing of recommended reading material for students in grades ten through twelve

Case studies examine how teachers can help all students achieve high levels of literacy.