A Tale of Two Cities
- ISBN-10
- 1580495567
- ISBN-13
- 9781580495561
- Series
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Category
- Executions and executioners
- Pages
- 445
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Prestwick House Inc
- Author
- Charles Dickens
Description
Prestwick House is proud to offer our Spotlight Editions? ? thoughtful, intelligent adaptations of some of the world's greatest literature. Each Spotlight -Edition? maintains the rich integrity of the original work while adapting the language to be more accessible to the average high school student.In addition to providing a more readable text, Prestwick House Spotlight Editions? are enhanced, providing your students with? thoughtful guided reading questions and margin notes to help students -navigate the text;? suggestions for thought and discussion;? research opportunities for richer understanding of the text and its contexts;? suggested writing activities to foster deeper thinking.
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