Really good literature never dies, it just gets better as it ages! This is just as true of a good play as it is of a good book. Over and over we can return to it for enjoyment and each time we do, we can say. `Oh. I never read it that way before! How wonderful!'

In Literature Units, great care has been taken to select pieces of literature to which one can return again and again as we do to old friends.

Teachers who use this unit will find the following features to supplement their own valuable ideas.

* Sample lesson plans
* Pre-reading activities
* Biographical sketch and picture of the author
* Play summary
* Vocabulary lists and suggested vocabulary ideas
* Each act grouped for study with activities including these:

1. -quizzes
2. -hands-on projects
3. -cooperative learning activities
4. -cross-curricular connections
5. -extensions into the reader's life

* Post-reading activities
* Book report ideas
* Research ideas
* Culminating activity
* Three different options for unit tests
* Bibliography of Related Materials
* Answer key

 

Weare certain that this unit will be a very worthwhile addition to your planning and we hope that as you use our ideas, your students will increase the circle of `old friends' to be found in good literature.