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Notes on "Teaching" A Wizard of Earthsea
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Fox, Geoff – Children's Literature in Education, 1973
Suggests discussion, choral work, drama, game making, and the writing of prose and poetry as useful activities in the teaching of "A Wizard of Earthsea." (RB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Fiction
Twenty-four Things to Do with a Book.
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Fox, Geoff – Children's Literature in Education, 1977
Describes 24 activities for encouraging response to literature, designed for individual work and for classroom work with pairs, small groups, or the whole class. (GT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Group Activities, Individual Activities, Language Arts
"Pro Patria": Young Readers and the "Great War."
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Fox, Geoff – Children's Literature in Education, 1985
Provides a thematic presentation of poems written for young readers during the First World War. Draws heavily upon the poems and articles that appeared in "The Boy's Own Paper," a British popular magazine of the period. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Content Analysis, English Literature, European History
Thirty-Six Things to Do with a Poem.
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Fox, Geoff; Merrick, Brian – Children's Literature in Education, 1981
Offers ideas as starting points intended to help make poems more accessible to children. Suggests ideas for first encounters, sharing and presenting poems, becoming familiar with a poem, exploring a poem to increase comprehension, asking questions, collecting poems, and demystifying poetry. (HOD)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
"Tell England" and the Perfection of Death.
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Fox, Geoff – Children's Literature in Education, 1991
Details the successes of Ernest Raymond's novel "Tell England." Includes reviews of the book and details of the author's life. Discusses the reason's for the enormous success of the book, Raymond's treatment of the relationship between the young men, and his treatment of their deaths. (PRA)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Literature Appreciation, Novels