Province
National
Imprint
Heinemann
Author(s)
Carol Rawlings Miller
Language(s)
English
What do Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama have in common? When it comes to helping students become savvy about genre, rhetoric, and language: everything. In Strange Bedfellows Carol Rawlings Miller pairs short pieces by famous writers and speakers for side-by-side discussion and frames these pairs in lessons that help students meet a variety of curricular goals.
Your students will study the traits of effective writing and persuasion. They’ll also sharpen their critical-reading skills through exposure to a variety of texts and authors:
Miller saves you hours of prep time. She’s built ready-to-use, discussion-based lessons around each literary odd couple that help students think critically and find solid approaches to more complicated texts. In each lesson you’ll find that: