Accessing the Classics

by Rosow, La Vergne

• ISBN13: 9781563088919
• ISBN10: 1563088916
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

Help readers improve reading skills while stimulating their appreciation and increasing their understanding of great literature. Using a "scaffolding" approach, this guide leads readers from simple and engaging reads to more challenging texts, and simultaneously cultivates their interest and skills. An invaluable resource for middle and high school, ABE and ESL educators, as well as for readers' advisors.

Author Biography

La Vergne Rosow is a member of the English faculty and is director of the Teacher Preparation Academy at Los Angeles Valley College in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(5)
Purpose, Scope, and Audience---Why This Book	6	(1)
Adult and Teen Readers---Identified	7	(1)
Four Myths About Developing Readers	8	(1)
Motivating Readers	9	(2)
Selection Criteria for Books Included Here	11	(3)
Organization of This Book	14	(1)
Traditional Age Rating	15	(3)
A Word About Preliterate and Low-Literate Teens and Adults	18	(1)
A Word About Text Avoidance and Vision	18	(1)
Rosow Approach to Reading	19	(3)
Reading Changes Lives	22	(1)
Annotations	23	(2)
Some Suggestions for Use	25	(8)
Reading Environment	33	(1)
Conclusion	34	(1)
References	34	(3)
Myths and Legends of Ancient Civilizations: Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Beyond	37	(16)
The Ancient Egypt Collection	38	(1)
The Ancient Greece Collection	39	(4)
Maya Collection	43	(1)
Mesopotamia (Sumeria)	44	(3)
Ancient Rome Collection	47	(1)
Myths from Other Ancient Civilizations	48	(5)
The Middle Ages	53	(32)
King Arthur (ca. 470--539 C.E.) Collection	54	(9)
Beowulf Collection	63	(5)
Miguel de Cervantes	68	(4)
Geoffrey Chaucer (????--1400 C.E.)	72	(6)
Omar Khayyam (ca. 1048--1122 C.E.)	78	(1)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Town (1284 C.E.) Collection	79	(2)
William Tell (ca. 1307 C.E.) Collection	81	(2)
Other Literature About the Middle Ages	83	(2)
Renaissance Literature	85	(22)
William Blake (1757--1827) Collection	86	(3)
John Milton (1608--1674) Collection	89	(1)
Alexander Pope (1688--1744) Collection	90	(2)
William Shakespeare (1564--1616) Collection	92	(11)
Edmund Spenser (1552 or 1553--1599) Collection	103	(4)
The Romantic Movement and the Victorian Age	107	(84)
Louisa May Alcott (1832--1888) Collection	108	(3)
Jane Austen (1775--1817) Collection	111	(4)
L. Frank Baum (1856--1919) Collection	115	(2)
Charlotte Bronte (1816--1855) and Emily Bronte (1818--1848) Collection	117	(4)
Lewis Carroll (1832--1898) Collection	121	(4)
Anton Chekhov (1860--1904) Collection	125	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834) Collection	127	(3)
Guy De Maupassant (1850--1893) Collection	130	(1)
Charles Dickens (1812--1870) Collection	131	(6)
Nikolai Gogol (1809--1852) Collection	137	(2)
O. Henry (1862--1910) Collection	139	(1)
Washington Irving (1783--1859) Collection	140	(2)
Henry James (1843--1916) Collection	142	(3)
Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936) Collection	145	(3)
Abraham Lincoln (1809--1865) Collection	148	(1)
Jack London (1876--1916) Collection	149	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882) Collection	152	(5)
Herman Melville (1819--1891) Collection	157	(2)
Alfred Noyes (1880--1958)	159	(1)
Ouida (1839--1908) Collection	160	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) Collection	161	(4)
Aleksandr Sergeyvich Pushkin (1799--1837) Collection	165	(1)
Mary Shelley (1797--1851) Collection	166	(3)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850--1894) Collection	169	(2)
Leo Tolstoy (1828--1910) Collection	171	(4)
Mark Twain (1835--1910) Collection	175	(5)
Jules Verne (1828--1905) Collection	180	(5)
Oscar Wilde (1854--1900) Collection	185	(6)
Modernism	191	(56)
James Baldwin (1924--1987) Collection	192	(2)
Willa Sibert Cather (1873--1947) Collection	194	(2)
William Faulkner (1897--1962) Collection	196	(3)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896--1940) Collection	199	(3)
E. M. Forster (1879--1970) Collection	202	(2)
Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961) Collection	204	(3)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967) Collection	207	(4)
Franz Kafka (1883--1924) Collection	211	(2)
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930) Collection	213	(4)
James A. Michener (1907--1997) Collection	217	(1)
Arthur Miller (1915--2005) Collection	218	(3)
Pablo Neruda (1904--1973) Collection	221	(3)
Octavio Paz (1914--1998) Collection	224	(2)
John Steinbeck (1902--1968) Collection	226	(5)
James Thurber (1894--1961) Collection	231	(2)
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892--1973) Collection	233	(4)
E. B. White (1899--1985) Collection	237	(2)
Thornton Wilder (1897--1975) Collection	239	(1)
Virginia Woolf (1882--1941) Collection	240	(7)
Author/Title Index	247	(24)
Subject Index	271