Synopses & Reviews
The Teaching Guide to
The Ancient Chinese World is a complete, all-in-one resource that provides teachers with the support they need to help their students access the content of the book from the Medieval and Early Modern World series. It contains a collection of important instructional tools for the teacher, and a separate section on reading and literacy with practical strategies for teaching content to students with a wide range of abilities and learning styles.
Special multimedia, cross-curricular projects, one for each chapter, designed for mixed-group use gives students of all backgrounds and learning styles a chance to access and interact with the content. Chapter-by-chapter three-page lesson plans that are filled with activities to help teachers get the most out of every chapter in the book, including two chapter activities in blackline master form, graphic organizer reproducibles, project outlines, rubrics and a chapter assessment.
Synopsis
The Teaching Guide to The Ancient Chinese World is a complete, all-in-one resource that provides teachers with the support they need to help all their students access the content of the books. It contains a collection of important instructional tools for the teacher: -Recommended Teaching Units that organize the chapters into a common theme or focus, such as the civilization's origins, government, religion, economy, daily life, rise, and fall. -Unit Overviews that outline the content of the unit, list the primary sources featured in the unit, and provide a wide variety of flexible teaching suggestions that teachers can use to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of a diverse student population. -Chapter-by-chapter two-page Lesson Plans that are filled with activities to help teachers get the most out of every chapter in the book - with a chapter activity in blackline master form and a chapter assessment.
About the Author
Terry Kleeman is associate professor of Chinese and religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of A God's Own Tale: The Book of Transformations of Wenchang the Divine Lord of Zitong (SUNY, 1994) and Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom (U Hawaii, 1998). He has served since 2002 as president of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions and is managing editor of Studies in Central and East Asian Religions (E. J. Brill).
Tracy Barrett is the author of numerous books for young readers, including the award-winning Anna of Byzantium (Laureleaf, 2000) and Cold in Summer (Henry Holt, 2003). She teaches courses on writing for children and on children's literature and is on the faculty of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.