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Babcock, Suzanne – Exercise Exchange, 1983
Provides an eight-day sequence of assignments to introduce the idea of the speaker or "persona" to a high school English class beginning study of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. Cites works by Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, and William Blake. (HTH)
Descriptors: Characterization, Classroom Techniques, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction
Friedmann, Thomas – 1983
To learn correct grammar, developmental students must practice writing correctly. However, the traditional exercises offered in handbooks, workbooks, and textbooks not only fail to provide habituation in correctness, they actually provide practice in "wrongness." Instead of isolating individual problems, they promote confusion by linking them.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Developmental Programs, English Instruction, Grammar
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1983
Developed to assist teachers of communication arts in the high school PREP (Preparation for Raising Educational Performance) summer classes, the 30 75-minute lessons in this first of two handbooks are designed to help ninth graders operating with below grade level reading skills (around the 5th-7th grade level) improve their reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English Instruction, Grade 9, Language Skills
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1983
Developed to assist teachers of communication arts in the high school PREP (Preparation for Raising Education Performance) summer classes, the 30 75-minute lessons in this second of two handbooks are designed to help ninth graders operating with below grade level reading skills (around the 3rd-5th grade level) improve their reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English Instruction, Grade 9, Language Skills