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This second edition of the usual Literature Teacher’s Book of Lists has been exhaustively revised and holds modified info and stimulating new lists. This distinctive data source and time-saver for creative writing of recognized artisti value teachers includes 254 utile lists for constructing instructional materials and planning lessons for middle school, secondary, and college students. Some of the lists supply teacher background; others are reproducibles for student use; some give new twists to studied topics.
Review”The Literature Teacher’s Book of Lists is one of the original resources I turn to when beginning any creative writing of recognized artisti value unit. It is well organized, comprehensive and broad cross-referenced–in short, indispensable!”
–Dee Brtt, library media specialist, Valley Schools, Boulder, Colorado
“What better resource for teachers for ESOL than The Literature Teacher’s Book of Lists for making language acquisition both stimulating and enjoyable.”
–Joseph P. Glendenning, bilingual educator, Eastern Massachusetts Literacy Council, Inc.
“Judie Strouf’s encyclopedic Literature Teacher’s Book of Lists is genuinely amazing! I commend it enthusiastically to all my students–especially those who are potential teachers.”
–Michael Flachmann, professor of English, California State University, Bakersfield and 1995 Carnegie Foundation United States Professor of the Year
“Nobody but erudite Judie Strouf could write a more comprehensive, clear cut, concise reference guide. A treasure and a must for all teachers and those who love to read.”
–Ethel Neidoff, president, The Sun City West Writers Group
“This quality resource of literature, particularly for young adults, is beneficial for anybody not rigorously educators. Parents, and even students, might use Ms. Strouf’s book in selecting suitable reading materials. During this stage in education when reading at grade level is a severe problem, this reference would mainly aid anybody in need of such information.”
–Cheri Zangmeister, English and reading teacher, Southern High School, Louisville, Kentucky
“Yes! This second edition has been altered and strongly detailed! A masterful compilation forming a critical link amid cognition and enjoyment.”
–Walter C. Kluz, an avid reader of quality literature, Sun City, Arizona
From the Back CoverThe Literature Teacher’s Book of Lists
Second Edition, Grades 6–12
This second edition of the usual Literature Teacher’s Book of Lists has been exhaustively revised and holds modified info and stimulating new lists. This distinctive data source and time-saver for creative writing of recognized artisti value teachers includes 254 utile lists for devising instructional materials and planning lessons for middle school, secondary, and college students. Some of the lists supply teacher background; others are reproducibles for student use and a great deal of give new twists to studied topics.
For quick access and easy use, the lists are printed in a full-page, lay-flat format, cross-referenced throughout, and organized into nine distinct sections:
- I. LITERATURE . . . AN INTRODUCTION includes 15 lists covering the main types of creative writing of recognized artisti value such as Nobel Prize Winners, Quotations from Literature, and Literary Characters Based on Real People.
- II. BOOKS . . . FOR ALL AGES provides 18 lists, ranging from Newbery Medal Winners and Bestsellers for Young Adults to Puzzles and Brainteasers.
- III. GENRES . . . FOR EVERY TASTE offers 50 lists relating to Classics Writers, Comics, Adventure, and Science Fiction Masters.
- IV. POETRY . . . REFLECTION OF THE SOUL holds 32 lists of poets and types of poetry such as Poets Laureate of England and the United States, Classical Poets, and Haiku.
- V. DRAMA . . . THEREBY HANGS A TALE features 15 lists from Master American Dramatists and Elements of Drama to Best American Movies of All Time.
- VI. THEMES . . . UNDER ONE UMBRELLA holds 39 thematic lists encompassing Existentialism, Heroes and Heroines, and Transcendentalists.
- VII. MORE THEMES . . . YOUNG ADULT CONCERNS includes 14 lists of topics ranging from Courage to Drugs and Alcohol to War and Disaster.
- VIII. LITERARY PERIODS . . . INTO ONE ERA & OUT OF THE OTHER furnishes 20 lists of background selective information such as Classicism, English Literature Periods, and Major American Writers by Literary Periods.
- IX. POTPOURRI . . . WEIRD, WHIMSICAL & WORTHWHILE presents 29 captivating, off-beat lists such as Book Terminology, Library of Congress Classification System, and Careers for People Interested in Literature.
- X. STUDENT ACTIVITIES . . . AND TEACHER TIPS holds 22 lists including Book Reporting, Finding Good Books, and Teacher and Student References.
The Literature Teacher’s Book of Lists, Second Edition offers a handy source of magnificent examples, key words, teachable content, and instructing ideas. It not only saves you time but will help instill in your students a authenti appreciation for the world of literature.
About the AuthorJudie Strouf has expended 27 years as a teacher of language arts, literature, originative writing, and drama. She is the author of a great deal of successful books, including Hooked on Language Arts! (Jossey-Bass, 1990) and The Literature Teacher’s Book of Lists (Jossey-Bass, 1993). Now retired, she lives in Sun City West, Arizona.
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10 of 11 humans found the following review helpful.
 Literature:A Starting Point
By Martin Asiner
Americans seem mesmerized by a top ten list of any category, so it is no surprise that an individual has put together a top ten list for literature. Jodie Strouf in her THE LITERATURE TEACHER’S BOOK OF LISTS has attempted to encapsulate the wide swath of humane endeavour that we call literature. Though the title proposes that the target audience is fixed to teachers of literature, distinctly any individual with even a modicum of interest in things literary may benefit. Strouf’s chapter headings tell a outstanding deal with regards to how she organizes the rather bulky spectrum that most well-educated readers already know. Typical headers include (1) Literature: An Introduction (2)Books For All Ages (3)Genres For All Tastes (4)Poetry (5)Drama (6)Themes (7) Literary Periods (8)Potpourri (9) Endings & References. The value of Strouf’s text is significant in that a great deal of popular readers would like to have a handy one page reference that gives a plot summary of a dozen words or less for all of Shakespeare’s plays. Or perchance you might need to know which famous works have been banned as being overly salacious (The 1969 version of the AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY puts in a surprise appearance). Or even which novels have physical handicaps as an underlying theme.
As I read this list of lists, I could see that there is closely an infinity of uses for it. A high school teacher might use it to plan a curriculum of guided reading. A college teacher could photocopy applicable categories of minutiae that correspond with an undergrad course in Lit 101. The well-educated layman could even derive pleasure in finding a tidy order in the disorder of written ideas that stretchings back to antiquity. There are not a good deal of reference books that one could read as opposed to look up galore arcane point. THE LITERATURE TEACHER’S BOOK OF LISTS is one such precious example.
46 of 61 people found the following review helpful.
 Worthwhile and interesting but buyer beware!
By K. D Kirk
I don’t instruct creative writing of recognized artisti value and am not am not an academic, but a somewhat well-read person could a.) take issue with a great deal of of these lists, and b.) find errors in the book. So caveat emptor. For example:
1. The Trojan Horse is listed on pg. 17 as being covered in The Iliad and The Aeneid. So far as I recollect, there is zero mention of the Trojan Horse incident in the Iliad. That, fellow readers, comes briefly in the Odyssey, and yes… much, much later, in the Aeneid.
2. Incorrect info, in all likelihood typos, on the Androcles and the Lion fable.
3. Explaining Deconstructionism as ‘reaction versus the structuralism amd it is anti-humanistic, ostentatious over-analysis of creative writing of recognized artisti value as a basis for judging it is value”. Thanks, now explain what the heck that means.
4. Page 44 list of Major Literary Critics excludes H.L. Mencken and Harold Bloom and Malcolm Cowley? Come on.
5. Page 93. Eliot’s Four Quartets is classified as an ‘epic’? So is Brecht’s play, Mother Courage? Epic?
6. Page 123. Yet again, the literati can’t figure out that Fitzgerald’s second novel is just The Beautiful and Damned, not “and THE Damned.” Typo? Come on. Know your stuff. On Page 130 a Jean Auel novel is mistitled too.
7. Speaking of Fitzgerald, he’s listed as an American Novel Master (he published 4 novels) but not as an American Short Story Master (he published over 150 short stories). He was better known for his short stories. By the way, where is Don DeLillo? Not on American novel masters at all!
8. Western Masters: Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour and Larry McMurtry are in there, but not Cormac McCarthy?
9. And a crowning complaint… Major Poets from Other Lands is the category. Nowhere listed is GOETHE!!! The biggest or amongst the top 3 biggest European, if not Western or World poets ever!!! Arthur Rimbaud, the 19 year old Frenchman, author of a couple score poems is there. Holderlin and Heine are there for pete’s sake. No Goethe? Its hard to the lists seriously after an oversight of that magnitude.
Other than all that. On balance, it is a outstanding way to spend time if you love literature. Cool lists. For teachers, it is good I suppose. Just realize a heap of errors and oversights…some small, some HUGE.
2 of 2 persons found the following review helpful.
 A very utile book to have
By M. joad
This book is very utile for any person who has children in middle and high school grades. It proposes the books that they might need for any type of exploration and for their own noesis if they intend on going on to college. The lists for pre college book suggestions was specially utile for my daughter in high school.
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