A Socratic Method for Literary Education.What is Teaching the Classics? It's a two-day seminar for parents and teachers that prepares them to teach literature effectively, regardless of their training or experience.
The seminar is built around three unique ideas:
- All works of fiction share the same basic elements — Context, Structure, and Style
- Because it is approachable and engaging, children's literature is the best genre for teaching students to recognize and evaluate these elements.
- The best classroom technique for teaching literary analysis and interpretation is the Socratic method.
The seminar includes inspiring lectures and demonstrations by Adam Andrews, including live readings of works by Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Leo Tolstoy and Beatrix Potter.
A syllabus notebook accompanying the course contains everything a teacher needs to conduct powerful literary discussions, including
Teaching the Classics exclusive Socratic List, a set of 178 graded discussion questions applicable to any book on your reading list.
Teaching the Classics on DVD:
- 4 DVDs plus the 97-page course syllabus, which includes full texts of all stories used in the seminar
- the complete Socratic list, annotated reading lists for students of all ages
- reproducible charts for classroom use
- scope and sequence model
- daily lesson plans
- and more.
Running time: 5hrs 37min