Teach me how to work and keep me kind : the possibilities of literature and composition in an American high school / Joseph F. Riener.

Includes index.

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Teach Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind offers the content of AP English classes. This book intends to serve as a guide and encouragement to educators by showing what can be possible when a teacher enjoys the freedom to find their own voice. Poems, novels, short stories, essays, and plays become the means to have conversations with young people about love and life, peace and war, virtue and vice, joy and grief.

Machine generated contents note: 1.First Four Classes -- "Tiger Face" / Stephen Dunn -- "The Death of the Hired Man" / Robert Frost -- "Practice Makes Perfect -- But Only If You Practice Beyond the Point of Perfection" / Dan Willingham -- "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of the Imagination" / J. K. Rowling -- 2.Some Initial Remarks about Essay Writing -- 3.The Fifth and Sixth Classes -- "Keith" and other stories / Ron Carlson -- "The Cost Conundrum" / Atul Gawande -- 4.The First Novel -- Cider House Rules / John Irving -- 5.First Nonfiction Book -- Mountains Beyond Mountains / Tracy Kidder -- 6.First Real Piece of Analysis -- "The Minister's Black Veil" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 7.A Modern Woman -- Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- 8.Adding Malcolm Gladwell to the Mix -- "The Talent Myth" and "Million-Dollar Murray" / Malcolm Gladwell -- 9.Henry James and a Wee Bit of Queer Theory -- The Beast in the Jungle / Henry James

Note continued: 10.Habeas Corpus Doesn't Mean Much Until They Put the Handcuffs On You -- "Do You Want Your Kid to Disappear?" / Nadya Labi -- 11.Embracing Holden -- Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger -- 12.Rant Number One: Remarks on Common Core Standards -- 13.The American Heart in Its Darkness: Racism in American Literature and Life -- "The Big American Crime," an essay in The New York Review of Books / Edmund Morgan -- Poems / Phillis Wheatley -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- 14.Spending Awhile with Huck and Jim -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- 15.Rant Number Two: On the Impossibility of Teaching Anyone to Write -- 16.Poets and Some of Their Poems -- Poems / Stanley Kunitz -- 17.A Foray into Theory and Its Consequences -- The Ghost Map, The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World / Steven Johnson -- 18.Heroes, the Truth, and the Danger to Us All

Note continued: Consideration of some people talked about in Speak Truth to Power, Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World / Nan Richardson -- "Examined Life" / Malcolm Gladwell -- Selections from Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, Malcolm Gladwell's review of the book, and a Jared Diamond review of other books -- 19.Happy Ending: Moving away from the Canon -- The Shipping News / Annie Proulx -- 20.Living with the Unliveable -- The Center Cannot Hold, My Journey through Madness / Elyn Saks -- 21.Important Questions for Student Writing -- 22.How Evil Harms the Participant -- "Young Goodman Brown" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 23.The Power of Youth and Love -- The House of Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 24.A Journey into Darkness -- "An Anatomy of Melancholy" / Andrew Solomon -- A selection from Night Falls Fast, Understanding Suicide / Kay Redfield Jamison -- "Bartleby the Scrivner" / Herman Melville

Note continued: 25.How to Make the World Better -- The Checklist Manifesto, How to Get Things Right / Atul Gawande -- 26.What Does Modern Mean? Considering "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" / T. S. Eliot -- 27.Two Points of View -- 28.Some Thoughts on Teaching Students to Take AP English Exam's "Free Response" Essay Portion -- 29."You're going to school with Bigger Thomas" -- Native Son / Richard Wright -- 30.Poem for a Snowy Day -- "Oatmeal Deluxe" / Stephen Dobyns -- 31.Most Important Essay EVER -- 32.Why Walt Whitman Still Sings -- Song of Myself and Preface from Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- 33.Some Remarks about Grades -- 34.Once A Teacher... -- 35.A Very Large Social Problem of Our Time -- The Exonerated / Erik Jensen -- "The Caging of America" / Adam Gopnik -- 36.Last Novel -- Recovering from Trauma -- Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- 37.Gladwell's Charming Challenge -- Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell

Note continued: 38.A Ghost, Madness, Genius, Romance, and a Happy Ending! -- Proof / David Auburn -- 39.Last Class.

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