Ready-to-Use English Workshop Activities for Grades 6-12: 180 Daily Lessons Integrating Literature, Writing & Grammar Skills

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This unique resource gives middle and secondary school English teachers 180 high-interest activities that build students’ proficiency in the three major areas of the English curriculum—reading/literature, writing, and grammar. All the activities have been classroom tested, can be used with students of varying ability, and are effective as individual, group, or whole-class activities. For quick access and easy use, the activities are organized into 36 weekly packets—each packet including five “Dailies”—and printed in a big 8-1/4” x 11” lay-flat format for easy photocopying. Each “Dailies” activity begins with a well-written student passage followed by prompts that encourage students to examine the passage in terms of usage, stylistic devices, grammatical concepts, punctuation, and reading/literature skills. The activities require students to learn the rules that apply and to use the examples as springboards for their own writing. You’ll find that these integrated “Dailies” activities are ideally flexible. They can be completed as “warm-ups” at the beginning of class, as mini-reviews for more advanced students, or serve as walk-through activities or homework assignments for students who need reinforcement. Each activity will lead to inquiry and lively discussion as students analyze the model passage and learn to write effectively.

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Great as bellringer activities.......2007-10-06

I use the items in this book as bellringer activities. I had to retype them though because of the strange fonts used. I found my students couldn't read them. The activities would be great test prep also.

Decent activities, misleading title.......2007-09-28

This book is NOT a book of complete lesson plans, as I thought it was; I was thrown into teaching a new class and curriculum this year, and thought it might be helpful. I don't want to knock the book too much, because the activities are cute, short, and to the point. But the title "180 Daily Lessons" isn't necessarily what you think it might be; even an average middle school class will probably knock off these activities in less than half an hour, and if you teach a double block, this is nowhere near a full lesson. Forewarned is forearmed.

A great resource.......2007-08-08

I used this book during the latter half of the school year, and wished that I had started sooner. The glossary of terms is so easy to use, and students can refer to it immediately without having that lost look on their faces.
It's a great class starter for that punch of grammar without it looking like those boring grammar drills we went through in school.
The material is very relevant to teenagers, and the sample work is written by students themselves which gives my students more confidence to write.
I plan on using this at the beginning of the year, and carrying on throughout the year.
Highly recommended if you're floundering over those class starters.

Very useful resource.......2007-02-26

This book has interesting writing models to use with students followed by a variety of thought provoking questions that range from grammar and style choices to craft lessons. There is so much to choose from that I will need time to sort through it all before I can make the best use of this book. It's great to finally find a resource that will stimulate older students.

A Practical and Useful Book.......2007-02-19

I have just begun to use this book with my middle school classes. So far, so good. Unlike many workbooks I have bought sight unseen, this one has many pages which can be reproduced as is. I made a packet for my writers using the first five pages of the book which named and gave examples (mostly understood and enjoyed) of techniques such as the "Magic 3," and "Full-Circle Ending" as well as imagery, humor, etc. The book is well-aligned with the 6-Traits method.
The type of printing used on the examples is a little hard to see, but it did not pose a major problem. I also got her "Portfolio" book, as I was that impressed.

Bordering on Madness: An American Land Use Tale

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Two thumbs up

Bordering on Madness: An American Land Use Tale
Andrew F. Popper
Manufacturer: Vandeplas Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1600420117
Release Date: 2006-12-22

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This book contains a story about a battle between a university and a community, providing a prime example of land use cases. The book includes a discussion guide for classroom use. To the residents of Chesapeake Commons, their backyards are perfect art, changing only in color with each passing season. When Saxton University proposes construction of a new building on the border between the university and the community, the passion for constancy and resistance to change takes violent form. As the community descends into aggressive and increasingly hostile tactics, the university responds, with equal intensity. Bordering on Madness explores the rage and fear land use disputes generate. The emotions underlying property fights are primitive, rooted in the belief that protection of property means survival. Even a reasonable proposal is experienced as a deadly threat if it seems likely to alter that most personal landscape, the home. As the land use fight in Bordering on Madness ripens, the homeowners and university become combatants. The opposition becomes the enemy, depersonalized and reprehensible. Nevertheless, as is so often the case, the struggle is a sinewy exercise in democracy, with unexpected and regular displays of intelligence and conscience.

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Two thumbs up.......2007-04-02

I read this book in two sittings. Well written and hard to put down!

Hooked On Language Arts!: Ready-to-Use Activities and Worksheets for Grades 4-8

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Terrific Resource

Hooked On Language Arts!: Ready-to-Use Activities and Worksheets for Grades 4-8
Judie L. H. Strouf
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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ASIN: 0876284039

Book Description

More than 280 classroom-tested games, activities, and reproducibles give students lively practice in key language areas.

Customer Reviews:

Terrific Resource.......2000-04-25

I have used this book for the last two years as a source of engaging activities for seventh graders. Strouf includes a broad selection of topics which fit easily into my district's curriculum. Students enjoy the lessons and grasp the concepts more easily. I have shared this book with teachers from other content areas as well, since many of the lessons adapt to other disciplines.

God's Little Princess Devotional Bible: Bible Storybook

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I highly recommend this devotional bible for girls!
Great Devotional Bible for Kids
Four year old gets the Spirit
God's Little Princess Devotional Bible: Bible Storybook
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God's Little Princess Devotional Bible: Bible Storybook

Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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God's Mighty Warrior Devotional Bible

ASIN: 1400308798

Book Description

Girls long to be loved and adored, and give their heart to their hero. God is that hero! The characteristics focused on in this Bible storybook will help your little girl blossom into the princess she was created to be. Virtues to create beauty such as compassion, sharing, and truth are highlighted in fun and engaging ways. The perfect format for girls to learn about their destiny as a daughter of their King. Features included are: Beauty Secrets, Bible Princesses, My Hero (Scripture promises), Take a Bow (Easy plays that are Bible-focused), I Adore You (Put girls energy to use with songs, scripture and worship), Royal Truths, Down In My Heart (Scripture Memory), Princess Charming, Worthy of Love (Ideas to show how to love her royal subjects: family, siblings, friends and those in the community).

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I highly recommend this devotional bible for girls!.......2007-06-19

This particular order was a gift for my niece because we already own this book. My daughters (Ages 9 and 6) and I have recently finished our copy and enjoyed it so much we wanted to share it with their cousin. What little girl doesn't want to be a princess? This book was very appropriate for their ages and has furthered not only their knowledge of God but their relationship with Him also. I highly recommend this book!

Great Devotional Bible for Kids.......2007-06-08

My 4 yr. old grandaughter loves her new Devotional Bible. The stories are understandable even to a 4 yr. old. The questions make her think and she always knows the right answer. I feel this book will help in shaping her into the kind of young woman God wants her to be.

Nanna B.

Four year old gets the Spirit.......2007-05-31

My granddaughter has been in love with princesses since meeting Sleeping Beauty at age 2 1/2.She has every princess costume there is.She also has heard stories of Queen Esther and other Bible Ladies. I gave the Princess Devotional Bible for her 4th birthday ahead of all the other dolls and toys. She was delighted and I sensed there was a special sacred attachment for it.Immediately she wanted to take her Princess Bible to church. The one drawback for me was NO pictures or illustrations of what these women might have resembled. If the adage is true, "a picture is worth a thousand words" that would be my one suggestion. A great little book.

God's Little Princess Devotional Bible: Bible Storybook.......2007-01-16

This is an awesome first bible for my daughter who is getting this for her 2nd birthday.

Wonderful!.......2007-01-10

This is a great book for those of you with little girls. I have a 3 and a 5 yr-old and they are so "girly" it's just funny. They love anything to do with "princess." To read about God and refer to our girls as His princesses was just a truly wonderful concept. I'm very glad to have purchased this adorable white and PINK book... very colorful and very fun. My princesses sure do love it! If your little one is a princess with a heartfelt love of PINK, you must consider this one!

Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America

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Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America
Joan Shelley Rubin
Manufacturer: Belknap Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0674024362

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In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they experienced in those settings.

Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words.

Emphasizing the cultural circumstances that influenced the production and reception of poets and poetry in this country, Rubin recovers the experiences of ordinary people reading poems in public places. We see the recent immigrant seeking acceptance, the schoolchild eager to be integrated into the class, the mourner sharing grief at a funeral, the grandparent trying to bridge the generation gap--all instances of readers remaking texts to meet social and personal needs. Preserving the moral, romantic, and sentimental legacies of the nineteenth century, the act of reading poems offered cultural continuity, spiritual comfort, and pleasure.

Songs of Ourselves is a unique history of literary texts as lived experience. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

Amazing Grace: Hymn Texts for Devotional Use

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Amazing Grace: Hymn Texts for Devotional Use

Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953

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The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953
Billie Melman
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 019929688X

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In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes in the most literal sense of 'looking') and made use of it in a social and material urban world, and in their imagination. Covering the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the Coronation of 1953, Melman recoups the work of antiquarians, historians, novelists and publishers, wax modellers, cartoonists and illustrators, painters, playwrights and actors, reformers and educationalists, film stars and their fans, musicians and composers, opera-fans, and radio listeners. Avoiding a separation between 'high' and 'low' culture, Melman analyses nineteenth-century plebeian culture and twentieth-century mass-culture and their venues - like Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, panoramas, national monuments like the Tower of London, and films - as well as studying forms of 'minority' art - notably opera. She demonstrates how history was produced and how it circulated from texts, visual images, and sounds, to people and places and back to a variety of texts and images. While paying attention to individuals' making-do with culture, Melman considers constrictions of class, gender, the state, and the market-place on the consumption of history. Focusing on two privileged pasts, the Tudor monarchy and the French Revolution, the latter seen as an English event and as the framework for narrating and comprehending history, Melman shows that during the nineteenth century, the most popular, longest-enduring, and most highly commercialized images of the past represented it not as cosy and secure, but rather as dangerous, disorderly, and violent. The past was also imagined as an urban place, rather than as rural. In Melman's account, City not green Country, is the centre of a popular version of the past whose central Images are the dungeon, the gallows, and the guillotine.

Psalms Through the Year: Spiritual Exercises for Every Day

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A selection of notes and recommendations for further reading round out this excellent resource

Psalms Through the Year: Spiritual Exercises for Every Day
Marshall D. Johnson
Manufacturer: Augsburg Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0806653329

Book Description

By reading one page each day, along with the assigned psalm text from the Bible, readers will be comforted and strengthened as they gain a better understanding of the concerns and themes of the psalmists of old as well as come to recognize the various forms of the psalms. Each meditation concludes with a prayer that invites readers to add their own petitions. A glossary, index, and a list of books for further reading are included.

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A selection of notes and recommendations for further reading round out this excellent resource.......2007-01-06

Biblical scholar and pastor Marshall D. Johnson presents Psalms Through the Year: Spiritual Exercises for Every Day, a daily devotional that presents Psalm 1 through Psalm 150 in sequence, distributed among days of the year. Psalms Through the Year is applicable to any calendar year, and each psalm's one-page entry comes with thoughtful contemplation concerning the theological messages, spiritual life lessons, and means to open one's heart to God that are intrinsic to the psalms. A selection of notes and recommendations for further reading round out this excellent resource for reminding oneself daily to honor God.

Life Skills: 225 Ready-to-Use Health Activities for Success and Well-Being (Grades 6-12)

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Excellent Worksheets!

Life Skills: 225 Ready-to-Use Health Activities for Success and Well-Being (Grades 6-12)
Sandra McTavish
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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ASIN: 0787969591

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Life Skills is a practical resource that gives teachers 225 ready-to-use worksheets that cover a wide variety of key life skills. The book addresses topics such as drug and alcohol use, sex, relationships, stress, food-related issues, and self-esteem. Life Skills is an easy-to-use, time-saving book that is designed for grades 6-12 and helpful for both new and seasoned teachers. For quick access and easy use, the worksheets are organized into eight sections and are printed in a large 8 1/2” x 11” format that folds flat for photocopying. Here’s an overview of what you’ll find in each section:

Drugs, Alcohol, and Smoking: Trends in smoking, second-hand smoke, reasons why people smoke and ways to help people quit, facts about drug use, the classification of different drugs, alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, as well as drinking and driving.

Sex and Sex-Related Issues: Male and female sex organs, why people have sex, facts and myths, birth control, options after getting pregnant, sexually transmitted diseases, homosexuality, infertility options, sexual harassment, and date rape.

Love, Relationships, Marriage, and Family: The role of friends in our lives, negative aspects of cliques, dating and love, love and infatuation, qualities in an ideal mate, problems in marriage, why marriages end, family life cycles, and nontraditional families.

Life Skills: High and low self-esteem, long and short range goals, learning assertive behavior, dealing with difficult people, conflict resolution, what makes a good leader, effective communication and time management skills, and problems with violence.

Stress: What makes you stressed?, reactions to stress, coping with stress, suicide, death, and dying.

Food and Food Related Issues: Improving eating habits, the food pyramid, information about calories, water, vitamins, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, fat, additives, and eating disorders.

Know Your Body and Body Image: Body image and type, the functions of differnet organs, body parts, body systems and terminology, viruses and bacteria, basic first aid, diagnosing and solving emergency problems, fitness habits, and four components of fitness.

Self Esteem and Knowing Yourself: Favorite things, handwriting, personality type, birth order, highs and lows, and five senses.

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Excellent Worksheets!.......2005-09-22

This book is a must have for all secondary health teachers. I have used it already quite extensively this year, and I am 1 month in!! If I am looking for a worksheet to cover the topic I am working on, I go to the book and so far all worksheet have been there plus some! It covers an extensive array topics of ready to use worksheets that are wonderfully put together. Kudos to the author!

The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature

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a much needed work
Tough going but worth it
Complete and then some
Valuable Guide to Preaching on Biblical Genres
Good book for preachers

The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature
Sidney Greidanus
Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0802803601

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a much needed work.......2006-09-18

the bible is God's word, yes, but it did not fall out of the sky all at once and it is not a personal love letter from God in order to help us be more psychologically healthy. This book is a very well thought out and scripture honoring study in several issues relating to not only understanding what the bible is and what it's about, but also how to use it for teaching and preaching purposes. To truly honor the bible's message, the bible should be handled with intelligence and careful thought. This book will go a good distance towards that goal. It is written with serious readers in mind, it is not a feel good devotional type work. Also be sure to check out, Biblical Interpretation by Blomberg, Klein and Hubbard as well as How to Read The Bible For All It's Worth by Fee and Stewart and finally, Preaching The Whole Bible as Christian Scripture by Graeme Goldsworthy. These are some of the most helpful and sane works on the subject that I have come across yet.

Tough going but worth it.......2006-08-22

A significant, scholarly review of approaches to interpreting the Bible -- complete with a suggested holistic approach. While arduous reading (including so many quotes of primary sources that it was annoying to me!), this was an eminently worthwhile read for me as a teacher & preacher. I'd like to give it 5 stars, but...shoot, it was just too tough going. But if you want to understand the history of Bible interpretation -- learning from your forebears, and strengthening your own convictions -- buck up and read it.

Complete and then some.......2006-06-19

This is one of the most exhaustive looks at translating the biblical text into the preached word. It steps a bit out of homiletics and into hermeneutics. The scope is almost too much for one book.

Greidanus does a cursory introduction to expository preaching before launching into a full-blown critique of the historical-critical methods of biblical analysis. While his calm prose and scholarly foundations calmed my initial expectation that this would be a work of defensive fundamentalism, I was still shocked to see such a dubious review of the techniques that biblical scholars have been developing for a couple of centuries. I think Greidanus might have trouble getting a hearing in some circles of biblical scholarship today.

Chapters 3-5 are a unit, a look at the means of literary, historical, and theological interpretation of a text. I like the fact that in his subsequent study of each of the genres of biblical literature, Greidanus systematically returns to each of these three methods (e.g. how each of these three apply to prophetic literature, gospels, etc.).

Chapters 6-8 are also a unit, though not so tightly bound. Six deals with the selection of a text for preaching, a subject to which Greidanus returns in each of his studies of the genres of biblical literature. Seven looks more specifically at homiletics and the didactic and narrative forms of the sermon. Here, I feel a bit as though the text has wandered from its original purpose, or rather that the book needs to either focus on issues of biblical analysis or of sermon preparation. As I said, he takes on a lot here. Eight talks about the appropriate application of ancient texts to the modern world, the translation of the meaning and purpose of the original text and readers to the congregation.

Chapters 9-12 are really the substance of the book. The too-short critique of historical-critical methods with which it began almost detracts from what is really a rewarding conclusion. Here the book walks through Hebrew narratives, prophetic literature, gospels, and epistles and applies all of what came before. For each, it tells us how to apply literary, historical, and theological interpretation. For each, it tells us how to apply the text to modern preaching.

In the end, the text is so thoroughly analytical that it is almost impractical. It takes what is probably an entire course that Greidanus teaches (the table of contents even looks like a course syllabus) and puts it in a single work. It will take some time to digest this text.

Valuable Guide to Preaching on Biblical Genres.......2005-05-10

Greidanus provides a useful tool for the modern preacher. In this book Greidanus gives the preacher what is essentially a handbook on how to handle the various biblical genres. I feel the book is more suited to be used as a reference rather than a book you would read through and let sit. Although at times, the book felt repetitive and seemed to be a collection of parts rather than a fluid text, the book remains both insightful and useful to the modern preacher. There were numerous times where Greinadus' insights opened up biblical passages I had previously scanned over.

Overall this work will prove to be useful to biblical preachers everywhere and even the established student of the Bible should take something new away from it.

Good book for preachers.......2005-04-08

Reviewed by Rev. George van Popta

The author strives to fill two needs: to provide a tool that bridges the gap between the departments of biblical studies and that of homiletics; to provide busy pastors and aspiring preachers access to the fruit of biblical scholarship which is so often buried away in scholarly journals and far away libraries. This books has surprising breadth: in it the author deals with issues in history, hermeneutics, homiletics, Hebrew narrative, prophecy, the Gospels and the Epistles. Despite that surprising breadth, the reader will not be disappointed by a lack of depth. This study is not superficial.

In the first chapter Greidanus explores the connection between the Bible and contemporary preaching. He emphasizes the need for expository preaching where the text is master of the sermon, rather than topical preaching.

In chapter two he discusses the radical naturalistic historical-critical methods of approaching scripture that deny the historical reliability of the Bible. His conclusion is that there is sufficient reason for approaching the biblical text with confidence, even as the very Word of God. Greidanus accepts what the Bible says about its inspiration (2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:21). The Bible is trustworthy. He argues for working with a "holistic" historical-critical method that permits one to recognize historical narrative in the scriptures for what it is and to interpret it accordingly rather than to interpret it as myth, legend or mere story.

In chapter three the author presents a very helpful survey and assessment of the various forms of literary interpretation of scripture analyzing how they relate to preaching, and how they are either preaching's death knell or of some or much aid to the preacher.

The next chapter discuss the place of historical interpretation. The text must be understood in terms of its own time, place and culture. To understand what the text means, we need to seek to understand what the author meant. Greidanus also writes about the history of God's kingdom spanning creation to new creation, and works with the theme of creation, fall and redemption.

Chapter five is entitled: "Theological Interpretation." The Bible is not man-centred but has a God-centred focus: it reveals God's sovereignty and relates everything to God. The Bible requires preaching to be Christocentric. Neither the people in the Bible nor in the pew are central to the sermon; rather, Christ is central.

In the view of this reviewer, this chapter could have been strengthened if Greidanus had included a paragraph or two on confessional interpretation. A preacher preaches within a confessional context. His sermons ought not to collide with his church's confession(s). This is not to take the position that the confessions rule over the Word. This does not mean that the preacher would need to round off his sermons with footnotes to his confessions-or that his sermons would be nothing more than footnotes to his church's confessions. The message of the text must always sounds the clear tones of the Word of God. The peculiarities of a given text must be boldly pronounced. At the same time, if a preacher belongs to a confessional church, the confessions will function as he fulfills his task of preaching. The author's thoughts on this would have been appreciated.

After laying groundwork for five chapters, Greidanus gets to nitty-gritty material in chapter six, "Textual-Thematic Preaching." By this he means preaching in which the theme of the sermon is rooted in the text. A sermon must have a text, rather than just a topic. He discusses what a text is and how one delineates a text, and the difference between the theme of the text and the theme of the sermon (sometimes but not always these will be the same). The sermon must have a theme which will help to keep the sermon on track, unified, provide necessary movement, and direct the application.

Chapter seven covers the form of the sermon. In this very interesting chapter he discusses deductive and inductive development, and didactic and narrative forms. Each has advantages and potential pitfalls. The deductive and didactic forms can be good teaching vehicles but can also lead to boredom in the pew whereas the inductive and narrative can be exciting but can also mystify a congregation which has no idea what journey the preacher has taken it on. The nature of the text needs to determine the form of the sermon. This does not call for slavish imitation of the form of the text but for respect for the textual form so that its spirit is not violated by the sermonic form.

In chapter eight the author discuss the relevance of the sermon. The question here is: how does the preacher bridge the historical-cultural gap and show that the ancient text is relevant (not made relevant) to its modern audience? He discusses four improper methods: allegorizing, spiritualizing, imitating Bible characters, and moralizing. In discussing how properly to bridge the gap, we must begin by concentrating on the original message. What did the author intend to convey to the first audience? We need then to recognize the elements of discontinuity between the ancient pre-Christ audience and us, and at the same time recognize the overarching continuity (one faithful God and one covenant people). The preacher must realize that he is not making the text relevant but is coming with a relevant proclamation about God and his Christ. Application ought not to be tacked on to explication. Explication and application must be integrated so that the whole sermon comes across as relevant communication. The preacher needs to address the needs of his congregation, to address the whole person, use dialogue in his sermon, and make use of concrete and vivid language.

In the remaining chapters Greidanus applies the contents of the first eight chapters to preaching Hebrew narratives (ch. 9), preaching prophetic literature (ch. 10), preaching the gospels (ch. 11), and preaching the epistles (ch. 12). These chapters provide a wealth of very helpful insight that will aid a preacher in preaching almost every genre of the Bible.

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