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Transform your classroom and watch your students exceed your expectations with help from the Great Books Foundation. Our fi ction and nonfi ction products are designed to empower your grades 6–12 students to fi nd the deeper connections and meanings in texts and to identify new ways of exploring issues and solving problems. Plus, our high-quality, customizable professional learning helps teachers become profi cient at the intricacies of inquiry-based instruction.

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Great Books Roundtable™Great Books Roundtable retains the high-quality literature and inquiry-based approach to learning of Junior Great Books while integrating additional features for middle school students and teachers. All three Roundtable levels include twelve works of fi ction, two works of nonfi ction, and six poetry selections. The selections are organized into three stages of learning to address the needs of students with varying levels of experience in inquiry-based learning.

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Great Books Roundtable™

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Differentiating First ReadingAfter doing a few Great Books Roundtable units, Mr. Fisher has noticed that some of his students struggle to make notes during the first reading, whereas others do it comfortably. He uses both the Support and Challenge box suggestions that appear in the Stage 1 First Reading card (card 12 ) to address his students’ diverse learning needs. Mr. Fisher begins by writing the following prompts on the board:

Mr. Fisher models how to make notes about questions while reading (Support).

Mr. Fisher encourages some students to mark a wider range of reactions in addition to questions (Challenge).

Mr. Fisher models visualizing, a strategy he wants to reinforce with his struggling readers (Support).

Mr. Fisher: As you read silently along with me, mark places where you have a question. Some of us have talked about marking where we agree or disagree with something or someone, so if you want to, try doing that as well.

Mr. Fisher: (After reading to “. . . under white knee socks that never stayed up” [p. 31].) Several parts of this passage appeal to my sense of sight and help me imagine what gypsies look like. I can see their dark hair and their brown hands loaded with rings. Did anything in this passage appeal to one of your senses?Morris: I can see Renate’s dark, frizzy hair, black eyes, and skinny legs.Mr. Fisher: What makes you think Renate’s legs are skinny?Morris: The part about her knee socks. The narrator says they “never stayed up.” That detail helps me see Renate pretty clearly.

Mr. Fisher: Okay. As we read, you may find it helpful to visualize, or picture in your mind, what is going on in the story. Try to imagine sights, smells, sounds, and feelings. (After reading to “. . . had lived half of his five years without a father” [p. 32].) I’m not sure who this Trudi Montag person is. I’ll put a question mark here and read on to see if she is important to the story.

Mr. Fisher reads the first two pages of “Props for Faith” aloud with the following interjections.

Great Books Roundtable Road Map • Level 224

? = Youhaveaquestionaboutthestory.✓ = Youagreewithsomething.✗ = Youdisagreewithsomething.

Mr. Fisher knows that to keep the students engaged in the reading, it is important to refrain from

interrupting the flow of the story and to stop only when students seem to struggle with comprehension.

He reads without interjecting until further into the story, when he notices that no one is marking

questions during a passage rich with interpretive issues (the highlighted passage on pages 33–34).

Mr. Fisher includes students’ notes in the modeling process (Support).

Mr. Fisher prompts students using the multiple-note option to share their reactions to the text (Challenge).

(After reading to “. . . the old Greeks and Romans” [p. 33].) Before we continue, let’s share some of the questions we have so far.Kurt: I want to know why the narrator tells us why Adolf Hitler wasn’t mentioned in her class.Mr. Fisher: Okay, make sure you put a question mark next to that.James: I put a question mark next to the second paragraph on page 32. I wonder why the doctors kept Renate for over a year.

Mr. Fisher: Did anyone mark a place where they agreed or disagreed with something?Mary: I did. I marked on page 31 that I agreed with Frau Brocker. I don’t think the midwife is Renate’s real mother either.

Mr. Fisher: Let’s continue reading and marking questions. If you’ve been marking where you agree or disagree with something, continue with that, too.

Mr. Fisher pauses to reread a difficult passage that students have not marked (Support). Mr. Fisher shows students how a passage contains opportunities for questions by briefly modeling the questioning process and having students follow suit (Support).

Mr. Fisher encourages students who are marking the higher-level prompt to contribute their ideas (Challenge).

Mr. Fisher: (After reading to “But I didn’t mean it . . .” [p. 34].) Did anyone mark a question on this page? (No response.) Let’s read it again. (Rereads from “‘Why not?’ I shouted . . . ” to “ . . . I couldn’t bring out one word” [pp. 33–34].) I have a question. Why does “something hot and sad and mean” rise inside Hanna when she thinks about Renate playing with Sybille? (Continues reading to the end of the page.) Did anyone mark a question this time?Simon: I marked next to “Her limp seemed worse than ever before” because I wonder why Hanna thinks this. (A few more students share their questions.)Mr. Fisher: Did anyone who has been marking agreement or disagreement note anything in this passage?Zora: I put a check mark next to the part where Renate’s face is “red, then ashen.” I agree with how Renate reacts to Hanna. I think I would act that way, too. (Another student explains a mark of agreement or disagreement.)Mr. Fisher: All right, let’s read on.

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Mr. Fisher knows that to keep the students engaged in the reading, it is important to refrain from

interrupting the flow of the story and to stop only when students seem to struggle with comprehension.

He reads without interjecting until further into the story, when he notices that no one is marking

questions during a passage rich with interpretive issues (the highlighted passage on pages 33–34).

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Roundtable Level 1Gaston William Saroyan

The Old Man of the SeaMaeve Brennan

Through the Tunnel Doris Lessing

Raymond’s Run Toni Cade Bambara

The Witch Who Came for the Weekend (from Juliet’s Story) William Trevor

As the Night the Day Abioseh Nicol

The Parsley Garden William Saroyan

The Veldt Ray Bradbury

A Likely Place Paula Fox

The Mountain Charles Mungoshi

Afternoon in Linen Shirley Jackson

The Mysteries of the CabalaIsaac Bashevis Singer

Rattlesnakes (from Our National Parks) John Muir

Throwing Snowballs (from An American Childhood) Annie Dillard

Roundtable Level 3The Summer of the Beautiful White HorseWilliam Saroyan

Sucker Carson McCullers

The Possibility of Evil Shirley Jackson

Superstitions Mary La Chapelle

Gryphon Charles Baxter

Fellowship Franz Kafka

Approximations Mona Simpson

The Bet Anton Chekhov

The Secret Lion Alberto Álvaro Ríos

Star Food Ethan Canin

A Visit of Charity Eudora Welty

The Destructors Graham Greene

How it Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston

I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr.

Roundtable Level 2The White Umbrella Gish Jen

Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The First Day Edward P. Jones

Props for Faith (from Floating in My Mother’s Palm) Ursula Hegi

El Diablo de la CienegaGeoffrey Becker

The Cat and the Coffee Drinkers Max Steele

The Box House and the Snow Cristina Henríquez

I Just Kept on Smiling Simon Burt

Mercedes Kane Elizabeth McCracken

Sandra Street Michael Anthony

Day of the Butterfly Alice Munro

The White Circle John Bell Clayton

Wolf (from The Unexpected Universe) Loren Eiseley

Colter’s Way Sebastian Junger

Poetry

Introduction to PoetryBilly Collins

[I’m Nobody! Who Are You?] Emily Dickinson

This is Just to Say William Carlos Williams

Mushrooms Sylvia Plath

TableEdip Cansever

The Road Not TakenRobert Frost

Poetry

Harlem [2]Langston Hughes

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

William Butler Yeats

[n]E. E. Cummings

The FortMarie Howe

BicyclesAndrei Voznesensky

Snake D. H. Lawrence

Poetry

The HandMary Ruefle

The Song of Wandering Aengus

William Butler Yeats

Child on Topof a Greenhouse

Theodore Roethke

The ParakeetsAlberto Blanco

Mending Wall Robert Frost

The Fish Elizabeth Bishop

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Literature & ThoughtBring the power of inquiry-based learning to your classroom discussions on government, citizenship, civics, and U. S. history with materials from the Literature & Thought series.

Student Editions• High-quality literature, content-rich nonfi ction,

and informational texts engage interest and focus attention on key themes.

• Essential questions and unit-specifi c cluster questions help develop specifi c critical thinking skills through careful reading, textual analysis, discussion, and writing activities.

Great Books Discussion Guides• Provide an overview of our inquiry-based approach

to learning• Include strategies for initial and second readings• Contain specifi c close reading questions for key

selections in each Student Edition

Teacher Guides• Off er detailed planning guides and thinking skills

instruction• Detail both selection-specifi c and unit-specifi c writing

activities, various assessment options, essay tests, and project suggestions

• Include interactive whiteboard lessons on a CD-ROM

Historical Events & Eras

Dark Days: America’s Great DepressionSelections by Eleanor Roosevelt, Karen Hesse, Dorothea Lange, Pat Mora, Studs Terkel, Richard Peck, and more.

Free at Last: The Struggle for Civil RightsSelections by Martin Luther King Jr., Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcom X, Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and more.

From There to Here: The Immigrant ExperienceSelections by Charles Osgood, Yoshiko Uchida, Nicholas Gage, Russell Freedman, Emma Lazarus, Pat Mora, and more.

The Harlem RenaissanceSelections by Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West, James Baldwin, and more.

A House Divided: America’s Civil War

Selections by Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Boykin Chestnut, and more.

Times of Change: Vietnam and the 60s

Selections by Tim O’Brien, Gerald Ford, Gary Paulsen, Joe McDonald, Ron Kovic, Thuong Vuong-Riddick, and more.

Voices of the HolocaustSelections by Hans Peter Richter, Elie Wiesel, Yala Korwin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eleanor Ayer, Ida Fink, and more.

Wide Open Spaces: American Frontiers

Selections by Joseph Bruhac, Stephen Crane, Columbus, Stephen Vincent Benét, Lewis and Clark, and more.

Excerpted from our Literature & Thought Discussion Guide for “The Face of a Spider” by David Quammen in What on Earth? An Ecology Reader

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The Face of a Spider

DaviD Quammen

One evening a few years ago I walked back into my office after dinner and found roughly a hundred black widow spiders frolicking on my desk. I am not speaking metaphorically and I am not making this up: a hundred black widows. It was a vision of ghastly, breathtaking beauty, and it brought on me a wave of nausea. It also brought on a small moral crisis—one that I dealt with briskly, maybe rashly, in the dizziness of the moment, and that I’ve been turning back over in my mind ever since. I won’t say I’m haunted by those hundred black widows, but I do remember them vividly. To me, they stand for something. They stand, in their small synedochical1 way, for a large and important question.

The question is, How should a human behave toward the members of other living species?

A hundred black widows probably sounds like a lot. It is—even for Tucson, Arizona, where I was living then, a habitat in which black widows breed like rabbits and prosper like cockroaches, the females of the species growing plump as huckleberries and stringing their ragged webs in every free corner of every old shed and basement window. In Tucson, during the height of the season, a person can always on short notice round up eight or ten big, robust black widows, if that’s what a person wants to do. But a hundred in one room? So all right, yes, there was a catch: These in my office were newborn babies.

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Literature & Thought

Literary Themes

And Justice for AllSelections by Margaret Truman, Joan Bauer, Sharon Creeden, Judge Judy Sheindlin, David Gifaldi, and more.

The Best of FriendsSelections by Langston Hughes, Roger Ebert, Bailey White, Tim Wynne-Jones, Ellen Conford, Gary Paulsen, and more.

Decisions, DecisionsSelections by Rosa Parks, Richard Nixon, Budge Wilson, Susan Beth Pfeff er, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Julia Alvarez, and more.

Family MattersSelections by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, Frederick Waterman, Jane Yolen, Erma Bombeck, Susan Beth Pfeff er, and more.

On the Edge of SurvivalSelections by Gary Paulsen, Jane Yolen, David Gifaldi, Tim Cahill, Jack Finney, Jon Krakauer, David Wagoner, and more.

To Be a HeroSelections by Kristin Hunter, Gordon Korman, Dave Barry, Ian Frazier, Joseph Bruhac, Rosemary Sutcliff , and more.

Who Am I?Selections by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Budge Wilson, M.E. Kerr, Gary Soto, Jane Yoel, Vivian Vande Velde, Chaim Potok, and more.

Government & Current Events

Individual Rights: The Blessings of LibertySelections by George Washington, Thomas Jeff erson, Linda Chavez, Judge Learned Hand, Akhil Reed Amar, George Orwell, and more.

The Three Branches of GovernmentSelections by John F. Kennedy, Stephen L. Carter, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, and more.

We the People: Foundations of American GovernmentSelections by Ronald Reagan, Patrick Henry, Frederick Douglass, Linda Chavez, James Madison, The Onion, and more.

Literary Genres

Echoes From Mt. OlympusSelections by Jane Yolen, Rita Dove, Barbara McBride-Smith, Olivia Coolidge, Bernard Evslin, Margaret Atwood, and more.

What on Earth? An Ecology ReaderSelections by Joseph Bruhac, Rachel Carson, Gary Soto, Dave Barry, Ray Bradbury, Katherine Paterson, and more.

Text Opener

• Why are people likely to kill a fl y that is annoying them, but unlikely to kill an annoying cat or dog?

Interpretive Questions for Discussion

• What answer does Quammen give to his question, “How should a human behave toward the members of other living species?”

• What is the importance of eye contact with other species, according to Quammen?

Writing After Discussion

• Does an individual become a better person in thinking through the decision to kill or not to kill another living thing?

• Is there a moral diff erence between killing an animal and destroying the habitat it depends on for survival?

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Social Studies

Imperfect IdealUtopian and Dystopian Visions• The 23 selections in this book include both classic and

contemporary works from a variety of genres and time periods.

• Readers are challenged to question how society should be structured and governed, as well as what kinds of communities are most conducive to human fulfi llment, both privately and in the civic arena.

• Provocative discussion questions are designed to help students gain fresh perspectives on the juxtaposition of utopia and dystopia.

• Featured authors include: E.M. Forster, Riichi Yokomitsu, Jennifer Egan, Robert Owen, Wislawa Szymborska, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michel de Montaigne, George Saunders, and Thomas More.

Immigrant Voices21st Century Stories• This book is an anthology of 18 contemporary short

stories written by immigrants to the United States.• These stories are divided into three diff erent

sections—Coming Over, Being Here, and Going Back. • The accompanying discussion questions help students

explore and better understand the experiences, concerns, and aspirations of those who left their homelands for new lives in the United States.

• Featured authors include: Reese Okyong Kwon, Aleksandar Hemon, Porochista Khakpour, Yiyun Li, Daniel Alarcón, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, and Pablo Helguera.

• Brief biographical notes on each of the authors are also provided.

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Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Stories is an anthology of contemporary short stories written by immigrants to the United States. This book continues the Great Books Foundation’s commitment to engage readers with perennial questions about the relation of the individual to society. Immigrant Voices includes:

■ Eighteen short stories that speak to the experiences, concerns, and aspirations of those who have left their homeland for a new life in the United States

■ Authors Junot Díaz, Edwidge Danticat, Yiyun Li, Aleksandar Hemon, and others

■ A brief biographical note on each of the authors and discussion questions for each selection

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Discussion Guides To complement Imperfect Ideal, we developed discussion guides for seven utopian and dystopian books and fi lms. If your book group is seeking more ways to engage with the themes in our newest anthology, you can download any of these free discussion guides at greatbooks.org. Each guide comes with an overview of the novel or fi lm, as well as thought-provoking questions to support lively discussion of these cultural masterpieces. Discussion guides include:

• 1984, George Orwell

• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

• The Republic, Plato

• Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, director

• Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, director• Metropolis, Fritz Lang, director

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Social Studies

The Will of the PeopleReadings in American DemocracyThis anthology brings together many of the most important texts from the history of American democracy in a format that invites discussion of their meaning and continuing signifi cance. More and more states are requiring that high school students read—and learn to interpret—these primary source documents.

Declaration of Independence

The Federalist No. 10 James Madison

The Federalist No. 51 James Madison or Alexander Hamilton

The Federalist No. 78 Alexander Hamilton

Constitution of the United States of America

Farewell Address George Washington

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention

Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln

Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association Sojourner Truth

The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony

Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes

Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr.

The Civically Engaged ReaderA Diverse Collection of Short Provocative Readings on Civic Activity

• Featuring 47 readings from literature, philosophy, and religion, this anthology examines the vital connection between the inner life and public service.

• Readings are grouped into four major themes—Associating, Serving, Giving, and Leading.

• Featured authors include: Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Andrew Carnegie, Billy Collins, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, and Margaret Sutherland.

• Students explore the beliefs and assumptions that underlie and motivate civic activity in order to better understand what we do and why we do it.

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Citizens of the WorldReadings in Human Rights• Features 41 classic and

contemporary legal documents, essays, memoirs, letters, short fi ction, and poetry that trace the history of human rights across cultures and over time.

• Featured authors include Hannah Arendt, Alan Dershowitz, Mahatma Gandhi, Nadine Gordimer, John Locke, and Wei Jingsheng.

• Historical documents include the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Introductory essays and appendixes help make connections among the diff erent periods and places represented by the selections.


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Language Arts

Modern American Poetry• Modern American poets and

their works are highlighted in this collection

• Over 40 American poets are featured, including Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Ray A. Young Bear, Rita Dove, Gary Soto, and Li-Young Lee.

• How To Read a Poem, the introduction to this book, explores a number of diff erent techniques you can use to draw your students into the world of poetry.

• Brief biographical notes on each of the poets are also provided.

“Reading poetry well is part attitude and part technique. Curiosity is a useful attitude, especially when it’s free of preconceived ideas about what poetry is or should be. Eff ective technique directs your curiosity into a conversation with the poem.”

—Jim Baldwinfrom the introduction to Modern American Poetry

Short Story Omnibus• From the traditional short

story to sudden fi ction, from the novella to the graphic story, this collection demonstrates the myriad styles and diverse forms of short stories from the past 150 years.

• Several suggested discussion questions accompany each of the 39 works.

• Brief biographical notes of each of the authors are also provided.

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Since Edgar Allan Poe fi rst described the characteristics of “the brief prose tale”

in 1842, the short story has evolved and changed. It has captivated millions

of readers around the globe and challenged writers to hone their gifts by creating

narratives that can be read, as Poe insisted, “at one sitting.”

This anthology brings together some of the best short stories ever written. These are

the ones we return to again and again because they delight us and challenge our

interpretive capacity. This collection also demonstrates the myriad styles and diverse

forms that have emerged over the past 150 years. The short story continues to evolve,

and this collection demonstrates the genre’s unfolding possibilities like no other

anthology before it.

From the traditional short story to sudden fi ction to the novella to the graphic story—

comics for grownups, if you will—these works all attest to the enduring success

of storytelling as a vital human activity. The short story delivers a distinct kind of

pleasure and sometimes even insight about who we are.

“ The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus builds upon a terrifi c selection of classic stories, and the inclusion of more contemporary forms such as sudden fi ction and graphic stories makes this anthology stand out. It is up-to-date and refl ective of recent developments in the genre. A great resource for the teaching and reading of the short story.”

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Established in 1947, the Great Books Foundation promotes the reading and discussion of classic and contemporary works across the disciplines and conducts workshops in Shared Inquiry,TM a text-based Socratic method of learning.

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Many Voices LiteratureMake American, British, and world literature meaningful and enjoyable with these titles from the Many Voices Literature series. Each of these anthologies has a special focus on essential literary strategies and concepts.

Student Editions• Include high-quality fi ction and informational text by

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diff erentiated instruction for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students working at grade level, and students with diff erent learning styles

• Provide suggestions for research projects to encourage deeper analysis of the texts

Great Books Discussion Guides• Provide an overview of our inquiry-based approach to

learning• Include prereading, note-taking, and writing prompts• Off er a sampling of interpretive questions that can be

used to stimulate discussion

Teaching and Assessment Resources• Assessment options for each selection and unit• Skills chart that aligns instruction with state and

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American Short Stories• A balanced collection of 51 stories from the 1820s to

the present exposes students to classic authors who have shaped America’s literary history.

• The six units are organized by era to give students a holistic understanding of the development of common themes and movements in American literature and to encourage them to compare and contrast works from diff erent periods.

• Featured authors include Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Joyce Carol Oates, and Sherman Alexie.

• Special focus is placed on understanding the author’s style.

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Excerpts from our Many Voices Literature Discussion Guide for “My Father Writes to My Mother” by Assia Djebar in Reading the World

Prereading Question

• What are some gender-based customs that you are expected to live by?

Interpretive Questions for Discussion

• Why does referring to her husband directly open a “fl oodgate” for Djebar’s mother?

• Why does the author call the conversation among the women a “harem conversation”?

Writing After Discussion

• How is the autobiographical form diff erent from the poems and short stories you have been studying? Would this story have the same impact for you if it were fi ction?

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British LiteratureTraditions and Change • A vibrant, engaging, and accessible book presenting

117 selections in British literature that cross a range of genres and cover the mid-400s to the present.

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• Featured authors include Geoff rey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory, John Milton, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Dylan Thomas.

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Reading the WorldContemporary Literature from Around the Globe• The 82 selections bring together the voices of modern,

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Introduction to Great BooksThis series combines outstanding fi ction and nonfi ction from classic and contemporary masters—all chosen for their ability to encourage the enjoyment of reading and interpretation of literature.

Student Books• Include 12 selections with brief biographies of the

authors• Provide a sampling of interpretive questions for each

selection, along with additional information about diff erent types of questions

Leader’s Guides• Provide a refresher on how to facilitate inquiry-based

learning• Include suggestions for prereading questions,

interpretive questions for discussion, passages for textual analysis, and post-discussion writing

T H I R D S E R I E S

On Happiness Aristotle

Habits and Will John Dewey

Happiness Mary Lavin

Crito Plato

On Liberty John Stuart Mill

Conscience Immanuel Kant

A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka

Of the Limits of Government John Locke

Antigone Sophocles

Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare Alexis de Tocqueville

A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Delmore Schwartz

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Politics Aristotle

Of Commonwealth Thomas Hobbes

Barn Burning William Faulkner

Of Civil Government John Locke

In Exile Anton Chekhov

The Declaration of Independence

Equality Isaiah Berlin

Sorrow-Acre Isak Dinesen

Why Americans Are Often So Restless Alexis de Tocqueville

After the Ball Leo Tolstoy

Habit William James

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Why War? Sigmund Freud

The Melian Dialogue Thucydides

The Social Me William James

Rothschild’s Fiddle Anton Chekhov

Concerning the Division of Labor Adam Smith

Chelkash Maxim Gorky

How an Aristocracy May Be Created

by Industry Alexis de Tocqueville

Observation and Experiment Claude Bernard

Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor

An Essay in Aesthetics Roger Fry

An Outpost of Progress Joseph Conrad

On Studying José Ortega y Gasset


First Series Why War? Sigmund Freud

The Melian Dialogue Thucydides

The Social Me William James

Rothschild’s FiddleAnton Chekhov

Concerning the Division of Labor Adam Smith

Chelkash Maxim Gorky

How an Aristocracy May Be Created by Industry Alexis de Tocqueville

Observation and ExperimentClaude Bernard

Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor

An Essay in Aesthetics Roger Fry

An Outpost of Progress Joseph Conrad

On Studying José Ortega y Gasset

Second Series Politics Aristotle

Of Commonwealth Thomas Hobbes

Barn Burning William Faulkner

Of Civil Government John Locke

In Exile Anton Chekhov

The Declaration of Independence

Equality Isaiah Berlin

Sorrow-Acre Isak Dinesen

Why Americans Are Often So Restless Alexis de Tocqueville

After the Ball Leo Tolstoy

Habit William James

The Overcoat Nikolai Gogol

Third Series On Happiness Aristotle

Habits and Will John Dewey

Happiness Mary Lavin

Crito Plato

On Liberty John Stuart Mill

Conscience Immanuel Kant

A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka

Of the Limits of Government John Locke

Antigone Sophocles

Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare Alexis de Tocqueville

A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Delmore Schwartz

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The Nature of LifeReadings in Biology• Encourages inquiry-based

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• Content, application, and discussion questions are provided for each selection.

Science

Keeping Things WholeReadings in Environmental Science• A collection of writings about

the ideas and concepts that form the interdisciplinary fi eld of environmental science.

• Includes 21 selections covering ecology, biology, economics, public policy, sociology, history, philosophy, and literature.

• Featured authors include Frederic E. Clements, Aldo Leopold, Lewis Thomas, James E. Lovelock, and Bill McKibben.

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What’s the Matter?Readings in Physics• Draws readers into a

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• Includes 31 selections from authors such as Isaac Newton, James Prescott Joule, Michael Faraday, Max Planck, and George Gamow.

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—from the introduction to Keeping Things Whole by Sir Crispin Tickell

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Professional Learning

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Shared Inquiry™ EssentialsThis course introduces key concepts and the basics of leading discussion, preparing a reading selection, asking eff ective follow-up questions, and conducting Junior Great Books program activities. This course is off ered in two formats: as a blended course that combines fi ve hours (one day) of live instruction with ten hours of web-based instruction or as two days of live instruction. Each participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $475

Online Interactive Off eringsOur webinars are highly interactive, live experiences and provide detail on a variety of topics, including:• The Close Reading Process. Learn a concrete, step-

by-step reading process that teaches students to work closely with texts in order to build higher-level reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

• The Power of Student Questions. Learn how to prompt students to ask questions about a text to deepen their engagement with the material and increase learning.

• Introduction to Shared Inquiry. Experience what it feels like to participate in our inquiry-based method of teaching and learning. Then fi nd out more about our K–12 off erings. Participants receive a coupon to purchase Junior Great Books Sampler for only $49 so they can test drive a Junior Great Books program.

Most webinars last 90 minutes and cost $50/participant.

Why should we ask why?Because the future belongs to those who approach their lives and work with an entrepreneurial spirit, who relish solving diffi cult problems, who collaborate successfully with others, who think critically and use both logic and creativity in doing so.

How do teachers make this future a reality for their students?In one word: Inquiry! Eff ective questioning and discussion leading—more than any other teaching modality—produce students who can think independently, develop their own unique perspective, and learn how to learn.

The education community is recognizing that the value of inquiry-based teaching extends far beyond reading and language arts. Increasingly, teachers in all subject areas are expected to employ eff ective questioning strategies to help students unlock meaning in a variety of complex texts.

Great Books has over 60 years of experience imparting key principles and practices of inquiry-based teaching. Our method, known as Shared Inquiry, has been used in thousands of classrooms across the country. No other organization or company has more history or expertise at making inquiry-based teaching and learning succeed than Great Books does.


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Virtual CoachingWith Virtual Coaching, teachers upload videos of classroom discussions and receive detailed critiques from experienced Great Books professional learning consultants. Virtual Coaching is a highly eff ective and time-effi cient way for teachers to improve their skills. Video feedback provides the most thorough, specifi c, actionable information on how to conduct a Shared Inquiry classroom discussion.

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Ongoing professional learning is the best way for teachers to become highly skilled at inquiry-based instruction and to mentor others in the method.

Success with Inquiry-Based Instruction gives teachers a thorough grounding in the Shared Inquiry approach and a lot of valuable coaching and feedback. Teachers will finish this program with a high degree of competency in handling all aspects of inquiry-based learning in the classroom.

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• On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read

dAvid rAyMond

• The Changeling

Judith ortíz Cofer

• Be-ers and Doers

budge Wilson

• The Green Killer

M. e. Kerr

• Moon

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Discussion Guides for TeachersThe Great Books Foundation provides discussion guides for

selected texts from Perfection Learning’s groundbreaking

Literature & Thought series. The guides, together with Great

Books professional learning, help teachers and students delve

more deeply into these thought-provoking texts.

And Justice for All

The Best of Friends

Dark Days

Decisions, Decisions

Echoes from Mt. Olympus

Family Matters

Free at Last

From There to Here

The Harlem Renaissance

A House Divided

Individual Rights

On the Edge of Survival

The Three Branches of Government

Times of Change

To Be a Hero

Voices of the Holocaust

We the People

What on Earth?

Who Am I?

Wide Open Spaces



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The Literature & Thought series contains literature that

challenges the reader, promotes critical thinking, and encourages

independent exploration of genres, themes, and issues.

Books in each of the four series strands are listed below.

GOVERNMENT AND CURRENT EVENTS

Foundations Three Branches Individual Rights

LITERARY APPROACHES TO HISTORY

American Frontiers Civil Rights The Harlem Renaissance

The Civil War The Great Depression The Holocaust

The Immigrant Experience Vietnam & the 60s

LITERARY GENRES

Ecology Fantasy Humor

Mystery Mythology Science Fiction Sports

LITERARY THEMES

Decisions Family Friendship

Heroes Identity Justice Survival

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• The Fine Madness of Iditarod

Gary Paulsen

• Staying Alive

DaviD WaGoner

• Battle by the Breadfruit Tree

TheoDore WalDeck

• The Man in the Water

roGer rosenblaTT

• Plainswoman

Williams ForresT

• Into the Wild

Jon krakauer

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35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 400 Chicago, IL 60601

www.greatbooks.org

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Discussion Guides for TeachersThe Great Books Foundation provides discussion guides for

selected texts from Perfection Learning’s groundbreaking

Literature & Thought series. The guides, together with Great

Books professional learning, help teachers and students delve

more deeply into these thought-provoking texts.

And Justice for All

The Best of Friends

Dark Days

Decisions, Decisions

Echoes from Mt. Olympus

Family Matters

Free at Last

From There to Here

The Harlem Renaissance

A House Divided

Individual Rights

On the Edge of Survival

The Three Branches of Government

Times of Change

To Be a Hero

Voices of the Holocaust

We the People

What on Earth?

Who Am I?

Wide Open Spaces



Documents

FY16 6–12 Catalog€“12...• Common questions about activities • Discussion planners for each session • Student Inquiry Logs for each session Download a free sample unit at