The header for this issue of the Prestwick House Footnotes Newsletter comes from the cover of the Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic edition of Classic American Short Stories.
In this issue of the Prestwick House Footnotes Newsletter:
This lesson includes allusion, anaphora, antithesis, asyndeton and polysyndeton, conduplicatio, epithet, hyperbaton, metaphor, parallelism, simile, synecdoche and metonymy, and zeugma. Included in the exercise you will find:
Definitions and examples for each device
Three passages with devices underlined for identification
Lead- Ins to Literature: Of Mice and Men contains over 70 slides that give background information, a brief biography of Steinbeck, an overview of the socio-historical context of the novel, and other essential topics including plot, theme, setting, characterization, style, and symbols.
Also new to the series, and the first work of Shakespeare to be added, is Lead Ins to Literature: Macbeth. Over 130 slides cover background information on Holinshed's Chronicles, the Elizabethan/Jacobean period, theater and audience, dramatic and narrative conventions, Shakespeare's language, literary techniques, themes, and characters. All Lead-Ins to Literature presentations are delivered on CD in free Adobe Acrobat format with helpful illustrations, maps, and dynamic content to get students interested in reading the novels or plays you're about to teach.
Earlier this summer, Prestwick House was thrilled to host two teacher externs from area schools, Mrs. June Craig and Mrs. Michelle Peeling. After three days of speaking with Prestwick House staff, viewing products, asking questions, and getting a general idea of what a publishing company is all about, the externship culminated in a round-table discussion.
In return for their visit to learn more about publishing, the Prestwick House staff was able to ask questions about the changing school environment and how we might improve our products to help teachers in the field. The round table discussion was very informative and generated discussions on trends in education, technology in the classroom, and how Prestwick House can create products to help teachers better prepare students.
“We had our closing business alliance meeting and you, along with so many other Delaware mentors, impacted over 100 teachers statewide,” writes Michelle Peeling in regard to her externship experience. “Thanks for your continuing support and for being such a valuable resource for English/Language Arts teachers nationwide.”
“It was great to be able to share the world of publishing with teachers, but we really got a lot out of it, too," says Prestwick House General Manager, Keith Bergstrom. "The chance to just sit and talk about how and why we do what we do was really valuable, and talking about the way that dedicated teachers like Michelle and June, do things in their classrooms both validates what we’re doing and gives us some great ideas on how to improve our products."
Prestwick House staff was glad to have the opportunity to host teacher externs and plans to continue the program in the future. To read more about this externship, vist the Prestwick Cafe Blog.
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