McDougal Littell Language of Literature: The InterActive Reader Plus Teacher s Guide Grade 12

Table of Contents:

Introduction: What is The InterActive Reader Plus?

The InterActive Reading Process

Who Will Benefit?

Lesson Planning

Suggested Reading Options

Reciprocal Teaching

Strategies for Reading

Developing Fluent Readers

Research/Related Readings

Lesson Plans:

The Beowulf Poet, from Beowulf

Geoffrey Chaucer, from The Canterbury Tales

William Shakespeare, Sonnets 29, 116, 130

William Shakespeare, from Macbeth

John Milton, from Paradise Lost

Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

James Boswell, from The Life of Samuel Johnson

Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Time of the Ancient Mariner

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty, and Spring and Fall: To a Young Child

William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming, and Sailing to Byzantium

D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner

James Joyce, Araby

Virginia Woolf, The Duchess and the Jeweller

T. S. Eliot, Preludes

W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts

Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Winston Churchill, from The Speeches, May 19, 1940

Doris Lessing, A Sunrise on the Veld

Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace

Nadine Gordimer, Six Feet of the Country

Analyzing Text Features

Understanding Visuals

Recognizing Text Structures

Reading in the Content Areas

Reading Beyond the Classroom

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