 Since 2000, he has also been a Reader of the Advanced Placement English Literature and Language Exam and consultant for the College Board. He has written four other books on the inquiry method of teaching and learning: English Teacher's Guide to Active Learning (HS and MS), Socratic Seminars and Literature Circles (HS and MS), and Socrates Does Shakespeare (for AP and college teachers). Victor Moeller has been commissioned by School House Books, Inc. to write an Advanced Placement Great Books Seminars and Film series of seven separate books. Each of the teaching units can be purchased separately. Each is based on a theme that ties two great books together, giving students great synthesis practice! In Mr. Moellerís words, ìWhy Great Books? Why these Great Books? Why these seven themes? Great Books, according to Matthew Arnold, are ëthe best that is known and thought in the world.í Great Books are those that generation after generation read and reread because of their universal themes, boundless interpretations, inspired and memorable language, and time-less wisdom. In short, some books are great because they endure. And they endure because the human race endures. These Great Books have been chosen because these authors all address one or more of six universal themes--issues that everyone will inevitably encounter at some time in life: our primal need to love and be loved, our need for justice, our drive to preserve our humanity, our inability to rid ourselves of violence and the plague of endless war, our ambivalence about the dignity and the burden of freedom of choice and conscience. And, in the end, our need to endure when life reveals its claws.î |