Teaching Humanities

By Valerie Hockert, PhD

This book contains helpful guides in teaching humanities including: response questions, essay questions, discussion questions, essay topics, short essay questions, exams and answer keys.

From poets to Thomas Hobbes, to Renee Descartes to John Locke, this book will give you enough material to successfully teach a course in humanities.

Valerie Hockert has taught humanities courses at a college level for many years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Justice Gray
• Release date: Nov 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311676641

Valerie Hockert, PhD

Valerie Hockert, was born in the Midwest where she has lived all her adult life. She has had much life experience through her various entrepreneurial life. She has a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies, and a PhD in Literary Studies. Dr. Hockert has been teaching at a college level for many years. She was the first publisher of the Writers' Journal and Today's Family, two national publications. She is also a certified personal trainer, great chef, and the Publisher of an e-magazine: www.realitytodayforum.com.

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TEACHING HUMANITIES

A great guide for teaching an introductory humanities class

By Valerie Hockert, PhD

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

SOME SUGGESTED READINGS

Response Questions

-- Writing Your Response

-- Analyzing Your Response

-- Literary Experience

-- Some Explanations

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

ESSAYS

-- Short Answer Questions

-- ESSAY TOPICS ON AMERICAN CULTURE

-- SHORT QUESTIONS ON AMERICAN CULTURE

-- SHORT QUESTIONS

EXAMS

-- EXAM 1

-- EXAM 2

-- ANSWERS TO EXAM 2

-- EXAM 3—Religions

-- EXAM 3: RELIGIONS ANSWER KEY

ESSAY GUIDELINES

-- Questions for Poets and Their Poems

Notes on Thomas Hobbes

Notes on Rene Descartes

Notes on John Locke

TERMS OFTEN USED IN HUMANITIES

Introduction

This book gives you some basic discussion questions, assignments, and grading rubrics for teaching an introductory to humanities class. This serves as a great guide for homeschooling this class, as well as a great study guide. It can also be used as a supplement when teaching world religions and literature, as when teaching humanities one does need to also address literature, and world religions.

Much of the information, as well as the suggested readings, you should be able to find online. Your students should be able to find answers to the quizzes online as well. However, you may choose to select a particular text that they should read that would cover a lot of the topics in this book.

SOME SUGGESTED READINGS

Phaedra by Jean Baptiste Racine

The Misanthrope by Moliere

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke

The Enlightenment by Immanuel Kant

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Candide by Voltaire

An Essay on