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Jago, Carol – 2001
This book challenges the current penchant in United States education for "dumbing down" and anthologizing literature for secondary learners. The book provides a rationale for teaching the classics to all high school students. It offers a wealth of ways for English teachers to do what they yearn to do in their own classrooms: teach "the good…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Classroom Techniques, English Curriculum, English Instruction
