Strange Bedfellows: Surprising Text Pairs and Lessons for Reading and Writing Across Genres

by Carol Rawlings Miller

Carol Rawlings Miller leads us--and in turn our students--into urgent conversations that have become all too scarce in many classrooms in recent years, places where the curriculum has become all too safe, too plain. When she pairs Martin Luther King and Shakespeare, there is a resounding cymbal crash in the head, as there is when Miller serves up speeches by Susan Sontag and George W. Bush. A stranger set of bedfellows has not been seen in some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325013713
• ISBN13: 9780325013718
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12