Teaching Particulars: Literary Conversations in Grades 6–12 David Mason No star distracts their stealthy

No star distracts    their stealthy march

the family packs their lives into two crates and flees to China

“Shakespeare uses language well

Five stars: A book about opera to enjoy and to learn from

and love that moves us toward each other can give us a sense of eternity

Teaching Particulars: Literary Conversations in Grades 6–12 David Mason No star distracts their stealthy248 page paperback 5. 5" x 8. 5" ISBN 978 1 58988 091 7 Publication Date: June 2015 In Teaching Particulars, Helaine Smith engages her students, grammar school through twelfth gradeand any avid readerin the questions that great literature evokes. Included are chapters on Homer and Genesis; plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Beckett; poems by Jonson, Donne, Coleridge, Browning, Hopkins, Yeats, Bishop, Hecht, Dove, and Lowell; essays by Baldwin, Lamb,