PLBRITISH
Bundle includes:
- Student Textbook - Hardcover - 992 Pages
- Parent Guide - 200+ Worksheets & Answer Key
Grades 9-12
An anthology with a focus on critical thinking and connections among texts
A vibrant, engaging, and accessible book presenting British literature chronologically from the mid-400s through today. 992 pages.
Special Focus: Critical Thinking and Connections Among Texts
Students explore fine literature and use critical thinking strategies across a range of genres. In approaching texts comparatively and critically, students are challenged to read deeply, think creatively, and write meaningfully.
Relevant
-Students experience the literary, historic, and artistic influences of a time period and experience life as a teen in each time. Students see how the thoughts and ideals of a generation and culture connect to those that came before and those that follow.
-Discussion and writing activities relate modern issues to classic literature.
-Students find evidence to support interpretations and apply and extend their understanding through engaging and relevant activities.
-Students use critical thinking skills to explore modern relevance by relating a piece of contemporary literature to the literature in the unit and to modern issues.
- A look at classic novels and their impact on British and world literature.
Accessible
-Scaffolded reading support
- select early-era works include original text and a line-by-line modern translation
- in-text summaries and primary source visuals preview difficult selections
- boldfaced type for essential ideas and themes
-A critical thinking page preceding each unit presents a key skill developed during the unit instruction.
- An engaging, highly visual timeline sets the stage for understanding the literature, history, art, and important issues of each era as well as contemporaneous events around the world.
-Before-reading pages build on students' knowledge; introduce author biographies, literary elements, and themes; and guide students to apply critical thinking to the reading experience.
