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For Gifted and Academically Advanced Students - Middle through High School Levels
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QUOTATIONS FOR CREATIVE INSIGHTS AND INSPIRATION: A QUOTATIONS BASED
DIFFERENTIATED HUMANITIES CURRICULUM FOR GIFTED
STUDENTS AND THEIR TEACHERS IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL
ISBN 0-910609-29-2
By
ROSS BUTCHART
Vancouver, British Columbia
Second Edition
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Can be used in both the gifted classrom and in homeschooling programs.
Presents an exciting and challenging differentiated humanities curriculum based upon the ideas and statements of the world's greatest thinkers.
Stimulates gifted students to reflect about and discuss important problems of life and society in an interdisciplinary manner.
Contains numerous questions that provoke discussion, reflection and writing about the great ideas and thinkers of the world!
Their guides are the greatest thinkers of Western and World Civilization!
Serves as the foundation for a rigorous differentiated curriculum for gifted and academically advanced students.
Selected Quotations from the Book --
"To teach is to learn." Japanese Proverb
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." Chinese Proverb
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." Jacques Barzun
"Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain
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Message form the Publisher, Maurice Fisher - This book reinforces the idea that students must learn about the great ideas of western civilization in order to be significant contributors to our society. Mr Butchart is a scholar of the humanities and a highly experienced teacher. I enthusiastically recommend this book to every teacher of gifted students who wants to impart crucial knowledge about the great thinkers and doers of the ages. Your students will like using Mr. Butchart's book in a stimulating, humanities and quotations-based curriculum. This approach to teaching the gifted represents the sine qua non of differentiated instruction!
About the Author - Ross Butchart recently retired following a thirty-four year career as a teacher and administrator in the Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) elementary and middle school system. Today he teaches courses in Communication and the Principles of Teaching in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia.
During his career in the classroom Mr. Butchart taught grades 4 through 7 in both open area and closed classroom settings, and developed one of the first grade 7 literature-based programs in his district. He also created the design for a grades 6/7 program on West Coast Indian culture that was used as a model in two other jurisdictions, and taught a grades 4 through 7 program for gifted students. It was while engaged in the latter that he considered using quotations to create enriching classroom activities - an idea that led to his writing this book.
Here are some of the topics covered by this quotations curriculum:
BEGINNING
LEARNING/TEACHING
KNOWLEDGE/IGNORANCE
IDEAS/GENIUS
MEDIOCRITY/ABILITY
HUMOUR/LAUGHTER, PURPOSE
GOALS
MISTAKES/FAILURE
PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE
SIMPLICITY
LEISURE ACTIVITIES
ACTION
DEEDS
CREATION/IMAGINATION
BECOMING
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