"Great literature" refers to written works that are highly regarded for their artistic and intellectual qualities. These are books and poems that are seen as exceptionally well-written, thought-provoking, and able to stand the test of time.
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I read a bunch, had the same impression as you described about
not great literature, and whipped one out in less than two months.
This work allowed students to engage actively
with great literature — to consider complexities of character, analyze the author's craft, and argue about theme.
Just
as great literature provides rich content for inquiry and analysis, fine art offers powerful opportunities to cultivate literacy skills and build content knowledge.
Wouldn't just about
all great literature, particularly combined, do a better job than this one collection of texts?
Just as
great literature provides rich content for inquiry and analysis, visual art offers powerful opportunities to cultivate literacy skills and build content knowledge.
But I'll stick my neck out &
say great literature may actually be the most important reading you could ever do as an investor.
Surely great literature well taught, that is made really to come alive for the student, can be one of the great formative experiences of his college years.
These resources are there to give you not
only great literature but to let your toddler know they aren't alone.
You will find the world's
great literature here, with focus on older works for which copyright has expired.
The series consists of over 120 digital graphic novels presented in a comic book format with robust color illustrations that
introduce great literature to readers of all ages.
In Part VI, we explore sea lore — pirates, sea monsters, lost islands, lost souls — the stuff of legends and tales that have ignited imaginations for centuries and are at the heart of some of the world's
great literature from Herman Melville's Moby - Dick to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
The Christian faith
inspired great literature, art, and music and contributed to the daring of many in pushing forward the bounds of human knowledge.
And to submit literature that, by today's standards, seems archaic (including with some of the quaint punctuation), and then claim that «editors and agents don't
know great literature» seems like the stodgy stupidity of someone who * reads * much too much and hardly writes or works much within the nationally distributing publishing industry.
Similar to Librivox, LoudLit partners up
great literature found in the public domain with high quality audio recordings, both available for download right to your PC or e-reader.
Connecting Children with Classics: A Reader - Centered Approach to Selecting and Promoting
Great Literature by by Meagan Lacy and Pauline Dewan.
Surely William Shakespeare did not set out to
write great literature, nor Handel to write classical music; nor did the mother of John and Charles Wesley, when she spanked them for mischief, say to herself, «I am training up the leaders of Methodism.»
That is to say, there is a timeless, spaceless quality about
really great literature that makes its appeal to men of every age and of every race who are capable of understanding it.
Not in the derogatory sense usually implied in modern usage, but in the sense, as I would have it, of
great literature full of psychological insight into human experience.
You'd be hard pressed to call the accounts of the Mad Scientists»
Club great literature, but there is a kind of small perfection» the feel of something doing the work of its genre in a classic way» when the first story opens: «Dinky Poore didn't really mean to start the story about the huge sea monster in Strawberry Lake.
Written by Reichardt's regular collaborator Jon Raymond, inspired by true events and women's Trail diaries, «Meek's Cutoff» could just as easily have been plucked from America's
leanest great literature: Steinbeck might have fancied this expansive meditation on the human politics of trust from such bare - bones foundations.
Working with the actors and the land to tell Haruf's story of this cycle of love and loss that is life, just made me more certain that stuff of
great literature exists nowhere else but in our everyday lives, as it always has.
The energy that students devote to cracking the SAT - 1 and the ACT would be better spent reading widely and learning to write coherently, to think scientifically, to analyze and
appreciate great literature, and to converse in a foreign language.
As they get older, our young African American students deserve support in terms of being exposed to great books and
great literature so they're learning to read, but as they begin to read to learn, they are exposed to a little bit of everything — great books and literature across various cultures as well as the classics.
LibriVox is a teacher's dream — a fun tool to encourage the reluctant reader or inspire your already - addicted ones to explore even
more great literature.
Use great literature and tell great stories to inspire students to understand the experience of others (Stand in My Shoes: Kids Learning about Empathy, Sornson, 2013).
VocabularySpellingCity promotes high school vocabulary learning and comprehension while your students
explore great literature.
Rigorous learning engages students with the big questions that
great literature poses, encourages students to connect their own lives to those questions, and requires students to integrate the classroom discussions about those ideas so that they create new knowledge for themselves.
Students will continue to
study great literature (e.g., Shakespeare, Twain, Steinbeck) in addition to informational texts.
I wanted to
share great literature with them like Shakespeare, Byron, and Shelley, but they couldn't read any of it.