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 Penguin Teacher Guide: The Mousetrap and Other Plays
had thrown a stool through the window and had hung on the ledge of the rock. He attempts to strangle Audrey, but is stopped by the returning police officers. Royde returns, at first not seeing Audrey. When he sees her he asks, “Are you all right?” She goes to his outstretched arms...
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had thrown a stool through the window and had hung on the ledge of the rock. He attempts to strangle Audrey, but is stopped by the returning police officers. Royde returns, at first not seeing Audrey. When he sees her he asks, “Are you all right?” She goes to his outstretched arms and laughing says, “Am I all right? Oh, Thomas!” And, the curtain falls. B. ACTIVITIES FOR TOWARDS ZERO • Become a Detective Do this activity before reading the final scene of the play. Using a technique frequently suggested in
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had thrown <span class="highlight">a</span> stool through the window and had hung on the ledge of the rock. He attempts to strangle Audrey, but is stopped by the returning police officers. Royde returns, at first not seeing Audrey. When he sees her he asks, “Are you all right?” She goes to his outstretched arms and laughing says, “Am I all right? Oh, Thomas!” And, the curtain falls. B. ACTIVITIES FOR TOWARDS ZERO • Become <span class="highlight">a</span> Detective Do this activity before reading the final scene of the play. <span class="highlight">Using</span> <span class="highlight">a</span> <span class="highlight">technique</span> frequently suggested in
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each to write <span class="highlight">a</span> memoir of the events preceeding and immediately following the murder. Prior to reading the <span class="highlight">novel</span>, students can assume one of the characters in the play and write her or his memoir of the events. Another less important difference between the play and the <span class="highlight">novel</span> is that the <span class="highlight">novel</span> uses the nursery rhyme “Five Little Pigs” as <span class="highlight">a</span> plot organizer. After students have read the <span class="highlight">novel</span>, they can discuss or write about how effective the use of this nursery rhyme is in the <span class="highlight">novel</span>. Why did Christie remove
Penguin Reading Guide: The Romance Readers' Book Club
Reading Guides The Romance Readers' Book Club Julie L. Cannon Paperback INTRODUCTION Bored with her sheltered life in Rigby, Georgia, fifteen-year-old Tammi Lynn Elco senses a cure for her restlessness when she acquires a stack of forbidden romance novels. Eluding the watchful eye...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Flaming Corsage
Reading Guides The Flaming Corsage William Kennedy Paperback $16.00 add to cart Read more... INTRODUCTION The Flaming Corsage begins with the "Love Nest Killings of 1908." From this dramatic, bloody scene in a Manhattan hotel room, Kennedy moves his plotline both forward an...
Penguin Teacher Guide: The Call of the Wild
and dogs: behaviors and pack mentality 2. Jack London writes about his main character Buck as if he were a person. This literary technique is called “anthropomor- phism,” or giving human qualities to nonhumans. By using anthropomorphism, London helps readers identify...
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and dogs: behaviors and pack mentality 2. Jack London writes about his main character Buck as if he were a person. This literary technique is called “anthropomor- phism,” or giving human qualities to nonhumans. By using anthropomorphism, London helps readers identify with Buck. • Write a journal entry about pets or animals you have known that behave almost as if they were people. Detail events and expressions that helped you discover what that animal was thinking. • Photo journaling: Using lots of pictures
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and dogs: behaviors and pack mentality 2. Jack London writes about his main character Buck as if he were <span class="highlight">a</span> person. This literary <span class="highlight">technique</span> is called “anthropomor- phism,” or giving human qualities to nonhumans. By <span class="highlight">using</span> anthropomorphism, London helps readers identify with Buck. • Write <span class="highlight">a</span> journal entry about pets or animals you have known that behave almost as if they were people. Detail events and expressions that helped you discover what that animal was thinking. • Photo journaling: <span class="highlight">Using</span> lots of pictures
Penguin Reading Guide: My Year of Meats
experience as a filmmaker influenced your work as a writer? Has your film background influenced your work as a writer? Do you prefer one medium over the other? If so, why? I've talked about montage as a technique I started using in film. I should mention t...
Penguin Teacher Guide: Great Expectations
discussion and journal questions, vocabulary methods, and tips for using an anticipation guide. The third section details methods to use while students read, including extensive discussion questions, alternatives to traditional journal entries that help students understand the text, and plans...
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discussion and journal questions, vocabulary methods, and tips for using an anticipation guide. The third section details methods to use while students read, including extensive discussion questions, alternatives to traditional journal entries that help students understand the text, and plans to teach literary analysis. Finally, strategies to use after reading and a list of resources are provided at the end of the guide. The plans are designed to make this worthwhile novel more accessible to readers and to help
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discussion and journal questions, vocabulary methods, and tips for <span class="highlight">using</span> an anticipation guide. The third section details methods to use while students read, including extensive discussion questions, alternatives to traditional journal entries that help students understand the text, and plans to teach literary analysis. Finally, strategies to use after reading and <span class="highlight">a</span> list of resources are provided at the end of the guide. The plans are designed to make this worthwhile <span class="highlight">novel</span> more accessible to readers and to help
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Interpretive Evaluative Why doesn’t Pip just tell his sister about the convict? Is stealing always bad? What are the two meanings of “what larks” that Pip and Joe talk about? How does dialect enrich the <span class="highlight">novel</span>? • Factual, Interpretive, and Evaluative Questions. Factual questions have answers that can be checked in the <span class="highlight">novel</span>. Interpretive questions ask about meaning. Evaluative questions explore the value of ideas. Factual What does the convict tell Pip to steal? How does Joe misunderstand Pip? <span class="highlight">A</span> Teacher’s
Penguin Reading Guide: Our Lady of the Lost and Found
forms, requiring a different technique, a different focus. I haven't written a new short story in a long time but I always assume that I will again. There are things you can do in a short story that wouldn't work at all if you had to sustain it over the whol...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Inspector Montalbano Series
secret so absorbing. Is his interest, as the police commissioner suggests, merely a form of “mental masturbation”? Does he see some fleeting image of his own identity in the mysterious remains? Or is it that, in a world of corruption, violence, and deceit, he hopes t...
Penguin Reading Guide: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
angry and finds his only release through music. David, tormented by his secret, looks for solace through the lens of his camera, the “Memory Keeper,” trying to make sense of his life through the images he captures. But as The Memory Keeper’s Daughter so eloquently shows, lif...
Penguin Teacher Guide: A Journey to the Center of the Earth
difficult for you? 3. On page 10 the nephew says in reference to his uncle: “To my notion the best part of his possessions was his goddaughter, Gretchen.” What would you say to the uncle or to your own parents if they considered you their possession? CHAPTER 2: THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT 1...
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difficult for you? 3. On page 10 the nephew says in reference to his uncle: “To my notion the best part of his possessions was his goddaughter, Gretchen.” What would you say to the uncle or to your own parents if they considered you their possession? CHAPTER 2: THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT 1. What kind of code would you use to protect a secret? 2. Uncle Hardwigg explains that Arne Saknussemm knew many languages. Why do you suppose scholars in earlier centuries could understand so many languages? 3. What are your
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difficult for you? 3. On page 10 the nephew says in reference to his uncle: “To my notion the best part of his possessions was his goddaughter, Gretchen.” What would you say to the uncle or to your own parents if they considered you their possession? CHAPTER 2: THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT 1. What kind of <span class="highlight">code</span> would you use to protect <span class="highlight">a</span> <span class="highlight">secret</span>? 2. Uncle Hardwigg explains that Arne Saknussemm knew many languages. Why do you suppose scholars in earlier centuries could understand so many languages? 3. What are your
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