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The book is both a call to action and a how-to guide to effective
teaching. It is written in a readable, accessible style, yet it is
supported by a wealth of knowledge and experience. The intended
audience is aspiring and current secondary school teachers and
administrators, curriculum directors, and college education
professors, as well as lay people interested in practical
progressive education. This book offers dozens of strategies and
original ideas to enhance teaching all manner of students in all
kinds of secondary schools.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without
Improvement are the roads of Genius. -William Blake, The Marriage
of Heaven and Hell One of the world's most brilliant, visionary
artists, William Blake was a painter, engraver, illustrator, and
poet as well as a mystic of extraordinary proportion. But he was
also a political radical, a Dissenter, and a friend and supporter
of Thomas Paine, the English common man, and the early stages of
the French Revolution. This remarkable personality is reimagined in
Tyger on the Crooked Road, a bold historical novel that delves into
both the man and the legend. In the late-eighteenth century, Blake
struggles to make ends meet. He is harassed by repressive
authorities, denied professional membership in the Royal Academy of
Art, and considered by major artistic and literary figures of the
day to be little but a willful eccentric. Not a few of them think
him mad. But beyond his art and politics, Blake is a loyal friend
and a passionate and devoted husband. His life comprises an amalgam
of conflict and compassion, adventure and failure, violence and
political intrigue, frustration and inspiration. This Blake is a
man of profound appetite and exquisite skill-one who offers an
enduring voice of strength, justice, promise, and capacity. Tyger
on the Crooked Road brings Blake vividly to life, a genius
underestimated in his own time but known and beloved today.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without
Improvement are the roads of Genius. -William Blake, The Marriage
of Heaven and Hell One of the world's most brilliant, visionary
artists, William Blake was a painter, engraver, illustrator, and
poet as well as a mystic of extraordinary proportion. But he was
also a political radical, a Dissenter, and a friend and supporter
of Thomas Paine, the English common man, and the early stages of
the French Revolution. This remarkable personality is reimagined in
Tyger on the Crooked Road, a bold historical novel that delves into
both the man and the legend. In the late-eighteenth century, Blake
struggles to make ends meet. He is harassed by repressive
authorities, denied professional membership in the Royal Academy of
Art, and considered by major artistic and literary figures of the
day to be little but a willful eccentric. Not a few of them think
him mad. But beyond his art and politics, Blake is a loyal friend
and a passionate and devoted husband. His life comprises an amalgam
of conflict and compassion, adventure and failure, violence and
political intrigue, frustration and inspiration. This Blake is a
man of profound appetite and exquisite skill-one who offers an
enduring voice of strength, justice, promise, and capacity. Tyger
on the Crooked Road brings Blake vividly to life, a genius
underestimated in his own time but known and beloved today.
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