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The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum - What Secondary English Teachers Can Do (Paperback, New)
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The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum - What Secondary English Teachers Can Do (Paperback, New)
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This book is addressed to teachers who know that the secondary
literature curriculum in our public schools is in shambles. Unless
experienced and well-read English teachers can develop coherent and
increasingly demanding literature curricula in their schools,
average high school students will remain at about the fifth or
sixth grade reading level-where they now are to judge from several
independent sources. This book seeks to challenge education policy
makers, test developers, and educators who discourage the
assignment of appropriately difficult works to high school students
and make construction of a coherent literature curriculum
impossible. It first traces the history of the literature
curriculum in our middle schools and high schools and shows how it
has been diminished and distorted in the past half-century. It then
offers examples of coherent literature curricula and spells out the
cognitive principles upon which coherence is based. Finally, it
suggests what English teachers in our public schools could do to
develop a literature curriculum that gives all their students an
adequate basis for participation in an English-speaking civic
culture.
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