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LEARNING SOCIAL STUDIES AND HISTORY THROUGH POETRY -- MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL LEVELS: CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH POETRY
ISBN 0-910609-33-0
BY KEN SIEGELMAN NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Presents a unique approach to teaching social studies and history involving the use of 62 poems written by the author. He has successfully used this approach for many years in teaching gifted students. It helps them to understand United States and world history through awakening their poetic imaginations!
The author is a very experienced (29 years) high school teacher of social studies. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his poems including the prestigious Bunzel Award from the American Teachers of Social Studies/United Federation of Teachers.
There are related study questions following each poem about particular historical and cultural events.
The poems and questions stir debate and discussion concerning our society, our history, and our nation's future.
Some of the topics covered by these poems are global warming, prejudice, the Holocaust, the Irish political struggles, American culture, immigrants, Socrates, ancient Rome, and reminiscences of the 1940s and 1950s.
"So much the same/We might imagine Joyce Or Behan/Listening in their streets/Invisibly,/While crafting portraits/
Of their souls. . . ." From "Belfast" by Ken Siegelman.
"I long to hear the rooster/Clocking down again./The alarm clock bolts me/Out of bed;/Groping for my asphalt shoes/By a window light/Which is always alley grey. . . ." From "Modern Times" by Ken Siegelman.
"His name came to mind/In worried looks/Passed in silence/Between the overseer in the fields/And the gentleman/
In the Big House -. . . ." From "Nat Turner" by Ken Siegelman.
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HUMANITIES EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS FOR GIFTED STUDENTS AND THEIR TEACHERS
BY MICHAEL E. WALTERS, Ph.D.
ISBN 0-910609-32-2
Our latest book by Dr. Walters contains his writings for the last twelve years on such topics as selecting and training teachers of the humanities, teaching Shakespeare to gifted students, and using Shakespeare's plays to assess the sensibility levels of these students. This book includes many essays on great writers and thinkers in literature, history, architecture, and politics, and extensive discussions of ideas and concepts related to teaching the humanities. There are also reviews of books related to humanities education for the gifted. Among the authors and thinkers discussed by Walters are Edmund Wilson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Barbara Tuchman, Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg, Jack London, James Michener, Willa Cather and Mark Twain. FULLY INDEXED for quick access to important names & concepts in the humanities. COST = $16.00 + $1.60 (10% P&H). TOTAL = $17.60.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT GIFTED EDUCATION? ANSWERS FROM GIFTED EDUCATION NEWS-PAGE
BY MAURICE D. FISHER, Ph.D.
ISBN 0-910609-27-6
Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of gifted education with hundreds of examples from books, literature, periodicals and other expressions of human thought and action. Stresses the interaction between the humanities and science. Includes reviews of books by some of our finest authors such as Howard Gardner, Steve Allen and Daniel Boorstin. Lists the names, addresses and telephone numbers of many new programs and gifted education resources. COST = $14.00 + $1.40 (10% P&H). TOTAL = $15.40.
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