Kathy<\/b> writes: It’s my pleasure to inform TORN that Houghton Mifflin recently posted online secondary school lesson plans (grades 9-12) for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. These curriculum units were written by my husband James Morrow and myself.<\/p>\n
Click here<\/a> or go to houghtonmifflinbooks.com<\/a>, click on the LOTR icon, then pull down the Librarians\/Teachers menu and select Lesson Plans. <\/p>\n My husband, a former educator, is also a novelist (so he was especially interested in highlighting Tolkien’s achievement as a writer); I’m an English-major-bookseller type with a lifelong interest in folklore, myth, and epic (including, of course, 30+ readings of LOTR and familiarity with most of the critical works). We also enlisted four talented young teachers as consultants. <\/p>\n We designed the course to last for nine weeks. As you might imagine, we would have liked to include a great deal more content, but lesson plan structure (perhaps like filmmaking in that respect) has demands of its own. <\/p>\n There are still a few data-entry errors sprinkled throughout the plans, but since these are rather obvious — misplaced attributions, typos, and the like — we don’t think anyone will be led seriously astray before the corrections are made.<\/p>\n As you might imagine, this was a real labor of love, and we emerged from it with more admiration than ever for JRRT and his accomplishments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathy writes: It’s my pleasure to inform TORN that Houghton Mifflin recently posted online secondary school lesson plans…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t