With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students
- ISBN-10
- 1893056066
- ISBN-13
- 9781893056060
- Category
- Best books
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-01-01
- Publisher
- Boynton/Cook
- Author
- Carol Jago
Description
Suggests ways to overcome the problems teachers face when teaching the classics--length, challenging vocabulary, complex syntax, and alien times and settings--and lists suggested titles.
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- 2011
- 150 pages
- Paperback
- Heinemann Educational Books
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