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Posted on: August 11, 2007
Posted by: W Bell (c)
What attracted me to this product was the description line that said classwork and homework listed for each day. However, I would have liked to read a list of book titles included in the syllabus in the advertisement. Now that I've opened the product, my school only has one of the texts listed. And there are a few texts in here that are non-fiction, something I'm going to need to stay away from in the AP Lit course as per College Board.
Posted on: August 11, 2007
Reply by: Lisa Renard-Spicer (s)
Why in the world would you stay away from nonfiction? The College Board has never recommended that the AP lit. and composition course forego nonfiction literary works. The AP test often features nonfiction ("expository prose" passages. As a matter of fact, the College Board's published course description includes the following list of nonfiction author recommendations for your syllabus. You'd be doing your students a disservice to eliminate nonfiction from your course.
Expository Prose:
Joseph Addison; Gloria Anzaldúa; Matthew Arnold; James Baldwin; James Boswell; Thomas Carlyle; Jesús Colón; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William Hazlitt; Samuel Johnson; Charles Lamb; Norman Mailer; Mary McCarthy; H. L. Mencken; John Stuart Mill; George Orwell; Richard Steele; Lewis Thomas; Henry David Thoreau; Barbara Tuchman; Virginia Woolf
Posted on: August 11, 2007
Reply by: Lisa Renard-Spicer (s)
Thank you for the feedback. I am sorry your school does not have copies of many of the texts included on the syllabus. That's a shame. I have taken your suggestion and listed the major texts in the product description. Please note that you could substitute titles from your school book list for those on this syllabus.
Posted on: December 15, 2006
Posted by: Mary Tracy (s)
I guess I was thinking that it would be a little more than the simple typed document. However, it is clean and functional, so worth the money.
Posted on: April 2, 2007
Reply by: Lisa Renard-Spicer (s)
I'm sorry you feel disappointed in this product. My product description was intended to make it clear that this was a simple single handout: "A simple, direct handout to help teach the basic five-paragraph essay. Perfect for lower level learners."
Posted on: August 1, 2008
Posted by: Brent Matthew Wolf (s)
...worth every penny...
Thanks!
Posted on: January 27, 2008
Posted by: Liltlc2 (c)
I've been looking for templates and lesson plans for lower level writers/readers and this was excellent addition to my class magazine unit.
Posted on: October 16, 2006
Posted by: Helen Krasnow (c)
Outstanding! It is so important to make learning relevant!
Students live in a world of CDs and DVDs. We need more lessons like this that bring the curriculum into the student's world.
Thank you!