Question

Connect to literature

Answer 1

Explanation:

Between the years of 1999 and 2005, I had the pleasure of teaching many students—middle schoolers in particular—how to connect with the deeper points of literature. Here are seventeen fun and crateive ways to help you students gain skills that can (and should) equip them to do a whole lot more than "get through" those literature assignment.

Between the years of 1999 and 2005, I had the pleasure of teaching many students—middle schoolers in particular—how to connect with the deeper points of literature. Here are seventeen fun and crateive ways to help you students gain skills that can (and should) equip them to do a whole lot more than "get through" those literature assignment.Book of Idioms—In 1592 Shakespeare first recorded the idea of a “wild goose chase” in Romeo and Juliet. 1 “The early bird catches the worm” was first recorded in John Ray’s A Compleat Collection of English proverbs in 1670. 2 If you are eager to complete a task or wish to motivate a team, you may use the phrase “gung ho!” This is actually an adaptation of two Chinese words: kung and ho (kung, meaning “work,” and ho, meaning “together”). The first printed record of gung ho can be found in the Oakland Tribune in an article about short war films. 3 To “bury the hatchet” was an actual practice, and the essence of its theme still carries over into our language today—when using this idiom. But, originally “[h]atchets were buried by the chiefs of tribes when they came to a peace agreement.” Truly, earth was moved and the leaders of these tribe&ndashnations settled their disputes without their hatchets. The seventeenth century is the earliest recording we have of this term being used. 4

Between the years of 1999 and 2005, I had the pleasure of teaching many students—middle schoolers in particular—how to connect with the deeper points of literature. Here are seventeen fun and crateive ways to help you students gain skills that can (and should) equip them to do a whole lot more than "get through" those literature assignment.Book of Idioms—In 1592 Shakespeare first recorded the idea of a “wild goose chase” in Romeo and Juliet. 1 “The early bird catches the worm” was first recorded in John Ray’s A Compleat Collection of English proverbs in 1670. 2 If you are eager to complete a task or wish to motivate a team, you may use the phrase “gung ho!” This is actually an adaptation of two Chinese words: kung and ho (kung, meaning “work,” and ho, meaning “together”). The first printed record of gung ho can be found in the Oakland Tribune in an article about short war films. 3 To “bury the hatchet” was an actual practice, and the essence of its theme still carries over into our language today—when using this idiom. But, originally “[h]atchets were buried by the chiefs of tribes when they came to a peace agreement.” Truly, earth was moved and the leaders of these tribe&ndashnations settled their disputes without their hatchets. The seventeenth century is the earliest recording we have of this term being used. 4What is an idiom? An idiom is “a natural manner of speaking to a native speaker of a language.” 5 Shakespeare coined quite a number of the idioms we use today. 6 A good, free, online source for idiom research is www.idiomsite.com/. Dictionary.com 7 lists idioms at the bottom of some word entries. Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms 8 is a great resource with which to learn the origin, meaning, and history of thousands of idioms we use every day.