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Overview
Overview
The Telemachos Guided Reading Editions of classic novels are designed to encourage educators to teach once again from the unabridged literary treasury of Western Civilization. Each edition provides students-unaccustomed to the sentence structure and vocabulary of novels written over a century ago-a path, alongside the story itself, of directed questions, which light their way toward understanding the novel's concrete details of plot, character, conflict, and imagery, details essential for all young readers to grasp when they enter, for the first time, into the world created by Charles Dickens.
Each Telemachos Guided Reading Edition
- establishes close-reading skills that become, over time, customary during the act of reading;
- outlines a process by which educators help students find an appropriate analytical voice for crafting written arguments based upon the evidence the story itself provides and the related associations arising therein;
- offers sample pages illustrating how a reader can personally annotate a text for evidence and associations in preparation for constructing an essay;
- includes footnotes for both historical and literary context and, in most cases, a glossary of vocabulary from the novel.
About the Editor
Michael Degen, Ph.D., has been teaching AP English for over thirty years, primarily at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He has served as a College Board consultant and workshop presenter nationally and throughout Texas, where he has provided instructional guidance for over 5o school districts. He is the author of Crafting Expository Argument, Prospero's Magic, and Virginia Woolf: A Contribution to the Essay Form. His most recent book is co-authored with his former student and colleague Ian Berry- The Instructional Coach's Playbook: Classroom Strategies Informed by Neuroscience, Athletics, and Psychology.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- ISBN: 9780760708705
- Condition: Used
- Publication Year: 1998
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A Boy, A Convict, and an Absolutely Wonderful Story!
Stephanie H. - 3 years 10 months agoThis is a wonderful read. Dickens has a way of sucking you into the story from the beginning and making you not want to put the book down because you need to know what happens with Pip and the other characters. What can one say? It's Dickens! Literature at its best!
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Dickens best work!
Rodolfo G. - 5 years 5 months agoWhen I was young, I'd read "Tale of Two Cities" every summer. I always loved Dickens' writing—those beautiful English words and trailing sentences. I cried and laughed and am a better person for having read it. I'm know reading Pickwick Papers. Half Price Books has such a great selection of classics for a couple of bucks. #SpringPicks
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A Thrilling Story of Adventure, Suspense and Humor
Jeremiah W. - 5 years 6 months agoThe novel of a Victorian boy whose position in life is abruptly improved by a chance encounter on a foggy marsh that changes his life forever. There is mystery and intrigue and, significantly, lots of humor. Dickens had an inescapable addiction to inserting comic moments even at the height of tension. And, finally, it is a love story. Great Expectations is Dickens at his peak and it is a story that changes each time you read it. (I am currently on reading number five!) #Springpick
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A book that leaves a life long impact on the mind
Sarah H. - 6 years agoOne of the best books I have ever read. The writing is so detailed you can almost imagine you are there, you can imagine the cobwebs, the stopped clocks, the cake still sitting on the table of what should have been a joyous day, you can almost feel the pain of a lover leaving you. I am widowed now myself and I have thought about this book many times as I heal on my own journey. I have thought about her being left at the alter and wanting time to just Stop, a feeling I can relate to. A book that leaves a life long impact on the mind. A book everyone should read. Wish I could give more than 5 stars! #BannedBook
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Wholesome read!
Jessica S. - 6 years 3 months agoRead this in high school and absolutely LOVE it! Such a great, wholesome read. #SUMMERREADING