Discipline: Professional Resources, Literacy
Copyright: 2009
Grade(s): 9 - 12
Delivery Method: Print
Province: National
Imprint: Heinemann
Author(s): Carol Rawlings Miller
Language(s): English
Strange Bedfellows: Surprising Text Pairs and Lessons for Reading and Writing Across Genres
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:
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and William Shakespeare
- Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger
- George W. Bush and Susan Sontag
- Jonathan Swift and Leonard Lewin
- Joseph Mitchell and Orhan Pamuk.