The authors present a new young adult novel as a focal point for preparing prospective secondary teachers to employ a rich variety of literacies to enhance literature instruction. The hope is to encourage literature teachers to consider a wide range of useful methodologies available across generations of educational research. By demonstrating how…

One in a series of units for gifted students, the booklet focuses on humanities instruction in grade 6. Program background information stresses the values of humanities as a way of studying the connections in the student's life, particularly the connections between subject areas and how they relate to humans' feelings and thoughts. Procedures…

This handbook outlines three courses with a global approach which have been implemented in the Livonia Public Schools, Livonia, Michigan. Existing global realities--the growing interdependence of nations and peoples, the depletion of nonrenewable resources, and the ominous world food problem--make it imperative that schools teach global studies.…

As part of the Thirteen-College Curriculum Program (TCCP), this teacher's manual contains background material and teaching suggestions for a sophomore-level course in humanities for predominately black colleges. The objective of the course is to train students to appreciate the arts, view art as one of the few channels through which men still…

The resource guide for language arts teachers at the secondary level attempts to provide continuous progress through individualized instruction and the integration of career education with curriculum concepts. The purposes of the guide are to complement the regular language arts program, to serve as a source of ideas and activities, to achieve…