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Changing Minds with Literature

Inventive activities on literature and the language that creates it

Changing Minds with Literature challenges students with thought-provoking activities related to high-quality literature. It explores both the message (meaning and comprehension) and the medium (figurative language, literary devices and structure).

Teachers will find it covers most genres of short literature, including short poems (lyrics, epitaphs, limericks), short stories, sonnets, songs and speeches. These teachable resources can be completed as one teaching block or as independent tasks without an introduction or input from the teacher, including a relief teacher. Extension activities and suggested answers are included.

Ages: 15-17 | Pages: 79 | Code: 51115 | ISBN: 9781776556298

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Guy Gifford

Guy Gifford began teaching at Mairehau High School in Christchurch, New Zealand but steadily moved north to Whanganui City College where he teamed up with David Dowling in the English Department. His most productive and enjoyable teaching experiences were on two exchanges to Canada where the lack of uniforms, semester timetabling and emphasis on graduation appealed. An amateur musician and DIY builder, he has constructed several boats and houses, some of which survive to this day. He is retired in Whanganui and struggles to keep up with his several grandchildren.
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David Dowling

Dr David Dowling currently teaches and writes in British Columbia, Canada. He has taught in New Zealand at Rotorua and Hamilton Boys’ High Schools, and English at Massey University. He was Chair of English at the University of Northern British Columbia. A former editor of Landfall, the New Zealand literary quarterly, he has written books (published in the UK and USA) on Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner and modern literature, and also edited books on Bruce Mason, New Zealand dramas and short stories.

Contents

Introduction4
Literary terms6
Numbers in words9
Language and logic11
English spelling12
Voluminous words15
"Shell Be Right?"16
An Irish mother's letter to her son19
Irish quiz20
"The River"21
"Dear Ex-Dad"23
"Rain from Nowhere"28
"Sonnets are full of love"31
"Hearts and Hands"32
"The Commercial Traveller's Wife"34
"The Ballad of Calvary Street"36
"The Market Researcher"38
"Horatius at the Bridge"39
"Gettysburg Address"44
"History"45
"The Bridge on the River Kwai"47
"We shall fight on the beaches"50
"The New Colossus"52
"Jerusalem Sonnet"53
"Patriot games"55
Stories of Sherlock Holmes58
"Flannan Isle"63
"Mechanical visitor"66
"What is a cell phone?"67
Suggested answers68

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