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With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students

Suggests ways to overcome the problems teachers face when teaching the classics—length, challenging vocabulary, complex syntax, and alien times and settings—and lists suggested titles.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 178 pages

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