With more than 115 pages of copy-ready classroom materials, A Classroom Guide to The Great Gatsby is the first in a series of Craig's Notes guides for teachers of literature. Now a frequent best-seller among teacher guides for literature, the volume includes pre-reading and post-reading activities, essay and project ideas, journal and class-discussion questions, vocabulary, reading quizzes, as well as detailed chapter-by-chapter commentaries on plot, character development, literary devices, and themes. All Craig's Notes guides have been thoughtfully developed by a veteran English Teacher who...

A Classroom Guide to Orwell's 1984 marks the second in a series of Craig's Notes classroom guides for teachers of literature. Each volume includes pre-reading and post-reading activities, essay and project ideas, lessons on literary devices, journal questions, reading and discussion questions, vocabulary learning and assessment exercises, and novel tests. Each guide has been thoughtfully developed by a veteran English Teacher who has taught literature at the secondary level for more than a decade, and draws upon her extensive experience engaging students in fruitful conversations about...

This classroom guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson is the third in a growing series of Craig's Notes Classroom Guides for teachers of literature. The Emerson guide is a bit different from the others, however. To begin, it is the first of three unique guides devoted to the American Transcendentalists. The Emerson guide is an outgrowth of a collaboration between Candace R. Craig and James D. Reid, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Reid's scholarly work includes publications on Kant in world-class journals, such as The Kantian Review and The Review of...

There are plenty of cheaper Mockingbird guides out there; so why choose this one? (1) It's substantial, with more than 250 pages filled with all of the features that make Craig's guides thorough, practical, and insightful: chapter summaries, commentary, and ready-to-copy exploratory questions, quizzes, tests, vocabulary, literary activities, projects and writing ideas, research, and much more. (2) It contains a play adaptation of the trial scenes, with intervening critical thinking questions students can use to lead the class in presentations and interpretive discussions. (3) It was published...

A Classroom Guide to Henry David Thoreau is the fifth in an ongoing series of Craig's Notes Classroom Guides. It includes all of the features that make each of Craig's guides thorough, practical and insightful, with chapter commentary, ready-to-copy exploratory questions, tests, vocabulary, literary activities, projects, writing ideas, and more. Like its counterpart, A Classroom Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is well suited for college and high-school classrooms alike and incorporates social, political, philosophical, and environmental themes in ways that assist instructors across...

Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives offers a sustained philosophical interpretation of the filmmaker's work in light of classic and contemporary discussions of human agency and the complex relations between our capacity to act and our ability to imagine.