Classroom Commentaries

Classroom Commentaries
Author: Marjorie Curry Woods
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN:

With an unusually broad scope encompassing how Europeans taught and learned reading and writing at all levels, Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe provides a synoptic picture of medieval and early modern instruction in rhetoric, poetics, and composition theory and practice. As Marjorie Curry Woods convincingly argues, the decision of Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) to write his rhetorical treatise in verse resulted in a unique combination of rhetorical doctrine, poetic examples, and creative exercises that proved malleable enough to inspire teachers for three centuries. Based on decades of research, this book excerpts, translates, and analyzes teachers' notes and commentaries in the more than two hundred extant manuscripts of the text. We learn the reasons for the popularity of the Poetria nova among medieval and early Renaissance teachers, how prose as well as verse genres were taught, why the Poetria nova was a required text in central European universities, its attractions for early modern scholars and historians, and how we might still learn from it today. Woods' monumental achievement will allow modern scholars to see the Poetria nova as earlier Europeans did: a witty and perennially popular text central to the experience of almost every student.

Classical Commentaries

Classical Commentaries
Author: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199688982

This rich collection of essays by an international group of authors explores a wide range of commentaries on ancient Latin and Greek texts. It pays particular attention to individual commentaries, national traditions of commentary, the part played by commentaries in the reception of classical texts, and the role of printing and publishing.

Twenty-First Century College Commentaries on Traditional & Nontraditional College Students

Twenty-First Century College Commentaries on Traditional & Nontraditional College Students
Author: Mary J. Ferguson
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1434932168

Mary Ferguson is a native of Bennettsville, South Carolina. She earned an Education Doctorate (Ed. D.) in Educational Leadership from Fayetteville State University (NC), MSA, Fayetteville State University (NC), M.Ed., St. Mary University, Leavenworth, Kansas and a BS from Winston Salem State University (NC). Mary is an Adjunct Assistant Professor member for the School of Educational Leadership at Fayetteville State University. Additional university and higher education professional teaching and administrative affiliates include: The University of Maryland (Heidelberg), Chapman University (Fort Richardson, Alaska), Central Texas College (Ft. Bragg, NC), Webster University (Ft. Bragg, NC), Fayetteville Technical Community College (NC), Carolina Bible College (NC) and Miller-Motte (NC). Mary served as a school administrator and teacher for elementary, middle, and high schools in various states and countries. Her primary focuses include: research, writing, and presenting referencing the culture of families, community, higher education and public school improvement.

Thucydides Book 1

Thucydides Book 1
Author: H. Don Cameron
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780472068470

Offers a better way to read Thucydides through the explanation of grammar and a glimpse into the history of classical scholarship

Teacher Commentary on Student Papers

Teacher Commentary on Student Papers
Author: Ode Ogede
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2002-09-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0313012938

Never before have parents, teachers, and other advocates for young people been more concerned about the declining quality of higher education. One skill that many students lack when they arrive at college is the ability to write well. The contributors to Teacher Commentary on Student Papers analyze some of the cultural, social, and moral changes that have altered the way in which education is given and received, and they offer approaches that have assisted them as teachers both in evaluating the quality of student writing and guiding students to improve their writing. Areas of expertise of the contributors include composition, cultural studies, English education, literature, writing, and rhetoric. The collection will appeal to both graduate and undergraduate students as well as to experienced and beginning teachers.

A Student Commentary on Pausanias Book 1

A Student Commentary on Pausanias Book 1
Author: Patrick Paul Hogan
Publisher: Michigan Classical Commentarie
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472052103

Patrick Paul Hogan's A Student Commentary on Pausanias, Book 1, introduces the first book of Pausanias' "Description of Greece" to students of Classical Greek. Pausanias' second century CE work is the only surviving ancient description of the monuments and artwork of mainland Greece. Book 1 of the "Description" covers Athens, its demes, and Megara--that is, Attica, the heart of the ancient Greek world. It offers not only a walking description of buildings, statues, and artwork by an ancient traveler but also insight into the mindset of an educated Greek of the Roman imperial age: his reaction to Roman domination and Classical Greek history and culture, his deeply felt religious beliefs, and his ideas regarding Hellenism and Hellenic identity. This textbook, the first on Pausanias aimed at students in almost a century, brings Pausanias back into the classroom for a new generation of readers. It is based on the Greek text edited by Rocha-Pereira and includes philological and historical commentary by Patrick Paul Hogan. A Student Commentary on Pausanias, Book 1aims at elucidating difficult syntax and helping the reader with the immense number of names and places Pausanias mentions. This volume is suitable for students of Classical Greek at the graduate and undergraduate levels, whether Classical philologists or Classical archaeologists and art historians. Professors of archaeology will find this textbook an excellent starting point for any course on Pausanias and easily supplemented by their own knowledge of material remains and modern finds.

Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World

Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World
Author: Karine Chemla
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108880932

This is the first book-length analysis of the techniques and procedures of ancient mathematical commentaries. It focuses on examples in Chinese, Sanskrit, Akkadian and Sumerian, and Ancient Greek, presenting the general issues by constant detailed reference to these commentaries, of which substantial extracts are included in the original languages and in translation, sometimes for the first time. This makes the issues accessible to readers without specialized training in mathematics or in the languages involved. The result is a much richer understanding than was hitherto possible of the crucial role of commentaries in the history of mathematics in four different linguistic areas, of the nature of mathematical commentaries in general, of the contribution that the study of mathematical commentaries can make to the history of science and to the study of commentaries in general, and of the ways in which mathematical commentaries are like and unlike other kinds of commentaries.

Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World

Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World
Author: H. Gregory Snyder
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415217668

A comprehensive and accessible survey of religious and philosophical teaching and classroom practices in the ancient world.