Did you ever wish you didn’t have to sort through all the thousands of poems that have been written over the years to find the best of the best? Cheryl Lowe has done the work for you in these new anthologies, including three volumes of British poetry and one volume of American poetry and short stories from the 19th-20th Centuries. These anthologies will be great supplement to your student’s literature studies in these time periods.
The British Tradition I: Poetry, Prose, & Drama from the Old English & Medieval Periods Student Guide helps students navigate the first anthology in our British Tradition series. The anthology features poetry from the Anglo-Saxon Invasion to the Tudor Accession (449-1485). The works included in this anthology introduce students to a variety of poetic styles including epic, elegy, riddle, history, lyric, dream, allegory, and ballad. Through the exploration of these poems students will come to a deeper understanding of the literature of the warrior, the priest, the medieval church, and the common people.
The British Tradition I: Poetry, Prose, & Drama from the Old English & Medieval Periods Student Guide introduces students to poems from the Anglo-Saxon Invasion to the Tudor Accession (449-1485). The Student Guide contains notes and instructions to the student, definitions of basic features, and an explanation of how to mark a book as well as pre-reading questions, reading notes, words to be defined, comprehension questions, Socratic discussion questions, and essay prompts. The answers, tests, and test key are contained in the Teacher Guide. The poems can be found in The British Tradition I: Poetry, Prose, & Drama from the Old English & Medieval Periods. Upper-School student books are now in a smaller, non-consumable format. The format of these guides helps older students transition away from a workbook mentality and prepares them for college classes by teaching them to take their own notes and glean information from lectures, class discussions, and the text.
115 pages.
British Tradition I, The: Poetry, Prose, and Drama from the Old English and Medieval Periods Student Book, Second Edition is in the following collections:
