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Lessons, Practice, and Resources in Grammar, Composition, and Literature 2004 • 1-58510-083-8 • paper (spiral bound) • 98 pages • 8 ½ x 11 • $19.95 Designed for middle school courses in English teaching a balance between grammar, composition and literature. | About the Authors | Table of Contents | Ancillaries | Preface | Review | | |||
Chris Giles is the English Department Chair at Marymount of Santa Barbara. He has been teaching English to middle school students for 13 years and has a Master's degree in Middle School Education from Rosemont College.
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Grammar Composition Literature Glossary of Poetic Terms 173 Irregular Verbs Acknowledgments
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All requests for Teacher's Manuals and Answer Keys Answer Key 2004 • 1-58510-084-6 • paper • 36 pages • 8 ½ x 11 • $14.95
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We wrote this book for our eighth-grade English students at Episcopal Academy because we were frustrated. There was no book that did it all, no one book that covered everything we wanted our students to understand at the end of the year. Rather than using selected chapters or pages from many excellent resources, we wanted to be able to hand our students a book in the early days of September and say, "Here. This is what we will learn this year. All of it — front to back." So, we wrote one. It includes sections on Parts of Speech, Sentences, Phrases, Clauses, Classifying Sentences, Mechanics, Composition, Literature, and glossaries of usage and poetic terms. Though it was written to be the core of the final year of middle school English, colleagues and associates have had great success using it with older students. There has long been debate about whether studying grammar improves proficiency in or increases enjoyment of reading, writing, and speaking -- our primary goals in middle-school English. We believe that showing the connection between grammar and good writing helps students say what they mean. -- Chris Giles & John Powell Episcopal Academy
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When you told me about Giles and Powell’s in general terms, I expected to like it. I was not disappointed. As a streamlined explanation of English grammar’s basic concepts and categories, English in Blue and White is exactly what is most needed and too often withheld from the middle-school students for whom it is primarily designed. It is accessible without being simplistic and thus also an excellent resource for older students playing catch-up in the field of grammar. I also admired the authors’ incisive advice on the art of writing, an Elements of Style, in effect, for younger students. What I enjoyed the most, however, was their use of sample sentences of genuine literary merit, e.g., exemplifying adverbs with that great quip from Mark Twain: “I was glad to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” All in all, a very sensible and attractive work in a field where textbooks with those attributes are in short supply.
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English in Blue & White
