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Two Gentlemen of Verona

AWiebe — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 22:03:18 +0000

Valentine and Proteus are devoted comrades ― until they travel to Milan and meet Silvia, the Duke's ravishing daughter. Torn between the bonds of friendship and the lure of romance, the two gentlemen are further bedeviled by Proteus's prior commitment to Julia, his hometown sweetheart, and the Duke's disdain for Valentine. Thus the stage is [...]

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

AWiebe — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 21:56:55 +0000

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

AWiebe — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 21:50:44 +0000

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Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Truth Set

sarah — Mon, 23 May 2022 21:32:48 +0000

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Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Truth continues the study of poetic techniques and poems and takes them to an even higher level. Using Plato’s Dialogues and Socratic questioning as a source of ideas and a way of thinking about the concept of truth, students are led to consider the difficult question that has absorbed philosophers, scientists, artists, and poets throughout time: What is the nature of truth?

Many poems deal with the concept of truth. Great poems that stand the test of time express, at their core, something that is true. This book looks at the truth of sound, meter, and stanza and at figures of speech that explore truth through comparison. The elements discussed include everything in the previous volumes of the poetics program, as well as the most advanced techniques that poets use when constructing their poems.

The truth can be slippery, and students who complete this book will come away with an advanced sense of how poets have explored the concept of truth through their poetry.

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MCT Level 7: Student Book Set
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MCT Preliminary Level: Complete Package

sarah — Mon, 23 May 2022 20:27:59 +0000

This package includes both the student books and the instructor manuals of all three titles in the Poodle series: Poodle Knows What?, Poodle and the Blue Mountain Monster, and Poodle Knows Poetry, all offered together at a reduced price.

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MCT Preliminary Level: Student Book Set

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Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Beauty Set

sarah — Tue, 17 May 2022 22:58:34 +0000

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Using Plato’s Dialogues and Socratic questioning as a source of ideas and a way of thinking about the complex problem of beauty, Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Beauty continues the study of poetic techniques and poems. Is beauty relative? Is it a mystery? Poetry helps us look at these questions.

As with the other books in the series, this book provides an in-depth, detailed exploration of sound, meter, stanza, and figures of speech. However, students are also asked to explore concepts such as the complex world of technique and the Socratic paradox: “I only know that I know nothing.” The book contains numerous quotations from Plato and Aristotle.

The poems of many of the most illustrious poets are featured in this volume, including Thomas Gray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, John Milton, e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath, Ralph Hodgson, Herman Melville, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Ben Jonson, Robinson Jeffers, Christina Rossetti, and William Wordsworth, as well as original works by Michael himself.

Students will come away from this book with a profound understanding of the illusive nature of beauty and the many ways in which poets have explored it through poetry.

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MCT Level 6: Student Book Set
MCT Level 6: Complete Package

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Poetry and Humanity Set

sarah — Mon, 16 May 2022 22:41:52 +0000

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Poetry and Humanity is built on a theme of understanding humanity and our existence. It develops and expands the MCT poetics program by showing how poets push language to its maximum in order to express those things about us that are most true, or difficult, or subtle. Longer and more challenging poems appear as examples.

All of the topics from the previous volumes are included in this one, but this book also explores more advanced techniques. These include advanced rhymes such as half-double rhyme, elided rhyme, amphisbaenic rhyme, reverse rhyme, and apophany; advanced meters, from monometer to octameter; complex stanza forms, such as heroic couplets, terza rima, villanelles, quintets, sestets, octets, and submerged sonnets; and more involved figures of speech, including metonymy, synecdoche, and oxymorons.

As a special feature, this book contains QR codes that link to audio of Michael reading the poems.

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MCT Level 5: Complete Package
MCT Level 5: Student Book Set

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The Poetry of Literature Set

sarah — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:32:18 +0000

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The poetics strand of the MCT language arts curriculum is one of its great strengths and a source of beauty and joy for many students. The Poetry of Literature is so powerful an addition to the poetics strand that every student should read it, even those who have finished the curriculum or who have advanced beyond this level. It is a book not to be missed—both by students and by instructors.

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MCT Level 4: Complete Package
MCT Level 4: Student Book Set

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A World of Poetry Set

sarah — Wed, 04 May 2022 20:20:37 +0000

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A World of Poetry builds on the first two books in the MCT poetics program but goes even further into the details of good poetry. This volume is built on comparisons of poetic and scientific observations of nature and the world around us. As with the other poetics books, the design of this book has been meticulously attended to so that it highlights the points in the text with beautiful and interesting visuals.

Among the featured topics are alliteration, assonance, consonance, end stopped versus enjambed lines, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, eye rhyme, near rhyme, poetic feet, iambs, trochees, dactyls, spondees, amphibrachs, amphimacers, pyrrhics, Shakespearean sonnets, Petrarchan sonnets, ballads, rime royals, limericks, haiku, similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophes, and the grammar of poetry.

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MCT Level 3: Student Book Set
MCT Level 3: Complete Package

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Building Poems Set

sarah — Mon, 02 May 2022 23:34:34 +0000

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Building Poems uses architecture as an extended metaphor, showing that poems are constructed like buildings, with careful attention to every detail. Like the metaphor itself, the book is constructed so that it beautifully illustrates the points made by reinforcing them visually.

The instructor manual for Building Poems includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain tips and questions for the instructor, activities for further study, suggestions for implementing the student book, a pre- and post-test with answer keys, a review quiz, and study poems for in-depth examination with the students.

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MCT Level 2: Complete Package
MCT Level 2: Student Book Set

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The Music of the Hemispheres Set

sarah — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:08:32 +0000

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The Music of the Hemispheres is Michael’s introduction to poetics for young children. In this beautiful book, which features extraordinary graphics that call attention to the points being made in the text, children learn that the sounds of words are an important component to good writing.

Chapters cover the basics of rhyme, alliteration, meter, stanza, and similes and metaphors. These elements are illustrated through poems by such notable poets as Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as original works by Michael himself. This book is a wonderful way to foster an early appreciation for poetry in children.

This set includes the poetics The Music of the Hemispheres Student book and Instructor manual in Level 1 of the MCT language arts curriculum.

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MCT Level 1: Complete Package
MCT Level 1: Student Book Set

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Preliminary Level: The Poodle Level Student Book Set

sarah — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:47:29 +0000

This package includes the Student Books from the Preliminary Level of Michael Clay Thompson’s Language Arts Program. It includes: Poodle Knows What?, Poodle and The Blue Mountain Monster, and Poodle Knows Poetry.

Guide to choosing a MCT level

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Poodle Knows What? – Instructor’s Manual
Poodle and The Blue Mountain Monster – Instructor Manual
Poodle Knows Poetry – Instructor Manual

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