Books published by publisher The Center for Learning

Fourteen lessons have students analyze the play scene by scene while role-playing and dramatizing selected sections, focus on Shakespeare's imagery and figurative language, use graphic organizers to analyze characters and themes, conduct Internet research, compose journalistic writing, and critically view a film adaptation of the play. Grades 6-12. (CFL357)

Fifteen lessons have students study basic information about Roma (Gypsy) life, analyze the current status of Roma people, and evaluate the historical accuracy of the novel. They also analyze plot and character development, keep a reader's journal, and illustrate key elements of the novel. A final lesson compares and contrasts The Gypsy Game with The Trumpeter of Krakow. Grades 4-9. (CFL128)

Sequential workbooks teach basic grammar with example-filled learning blocks, extended student exercises, and helpful reviews. Level 1 explains sentence patterns, five parts of speech, and verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives), providing 150 multi-type exercises. Level 2 (98 exercises) reviews patterns, then clarifies adverb/adjective/noun clauses, compound sentences, mood, parallel structure, and transitions. The spiralbound guide has teaching tips, unit tests, final exams, and a complete answer key for both levels. The teacher's guide also includes a CD with reproducible files for the complete guide and both workbooks. Grades 7-12. (CFL592)

This curriculum unit of lessons and reproducible exercises enables teachers to make writing a more personal and successful experience for students. Focusing on individual and group interaction, the lessons encourage students to use their creativity and spontaneity to enjoy the process of composition without the usual headaches of grammar and stylistic patterns. The lessons are divided into three sections: Warm-up Writing Exercises, Writing the Paragraph, and Writing the Essay. Specific lessons focus on writing a topic sentence, combining sentences, selecting supportive details, and analyzing sample compositions. (The student edition incorporates all of the worksheets into a handy workbook format.) Grades 7-12. Spiralbound. 8½'' x 11'' (WCB220)

These 34 lessons and 56 reproducible handouts promote direct involvement with the words, patterns, and imagery of poems. The lessons focus on such topics as ''The Poem Itself: The Structure of Meaning,'' ''In the Land of Allusion,'' ''Order in Disorder,'' and ''Playing the Role of the Critic: All the World's an Audience.'' Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Donne, Stephen Crane, and William Blake are among the poets studied. Index. Bibliography. (WCB179)

Emphasizing the connection between reading and writing, this series of 74 lessons with over 190 reproducible handouts consists of writing activities that integrate whole language learning to reinforce language arts skills. Volume 1 focuses on building writing fluency, promoting audience awareness, understanding elements of style, surveying the history of public discourse, and writing from everyday situations. Volume 2 deals with the writer as craftsperson and artist, in-depth study of literary passages, writing about poems, cross-relating works, and dealing with literary issues. After studying excerpts from noted authors, students engage in such activities as writing autobiographical sketches, developing theme topics, creating analogies, and analyzing prose content. Grades 11-12. Indexes. (WCB213)

ATTENTION: All Freaks, Geeks, Nerds, Dorks, Queers, Sissies, Weirdos, Thugs, Horse-faces, Fuglies and Dummies. It Starts with You! This book is for everyone, young and old, who has been labeled and put in a box and is ready to bust out of that box and smash those labels. Learn how to build self-awareness and find your real, authentic self. Pam Gockley was an overweight drop-out, drug user and undiagnosed dyslexic who experienced bullying, namecalling and more while growing up in a small Pennsylvania town with a non-supportive school system. Pam now shares how raised in poverty in a broken home by a loving mother, she overcame it all to achieve her goals as a successful entrepreneur, business-owner, and author. Start today on the road to self-discovery to become "Unleashed, Unfazed, and Unscripted."

Eighty lesson plans (40 per volume) with reproducible handouts encourage students not merely to study philosophy, but to be philosophers. Units in volume one cover introduction to philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, and ethics. Volume two units address existentialism, logic, philosophy of science, and Eastern philosophy. Emphasizing active learning and critical thought, student handouts suggest thought experiments or ask incisive questions about passages from the great philosophers. (Optional student workbooks provide the handouts only in a bound format.) Grades 9-12. (CFL162)