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Contact: Keith
Bergstrom
Prestwick House, Inc.
Phone: 302-659-2070 x 131
E-mail: keith@prestwickhouse.com
PRESTWICK HOUSE
GARNERS FOUR NOMINATIONS AT 2009 EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING SUMMIT
Leading
Educational Publisher in Delaware
is Chosen as a finalist by AEP for the Fourth Year Running
Smyrna, DE, 27 April 2009 – This week, Prestwick House,
Inc. was named a finalist for four Distinguished Achievement Awards from by the Association of Educational
Publishers (AEP). Winners are to be announced at AEP’s annual Educational
Publishing Summit in June.
AEP “gives credit to the
organizations who are leading the way in the field of educational
resources and sets benchmarks to which the rest of the industry can aspire.” Their longest-running recognition
program in the industry is part of a
mission to support publishers of supplemental instructional materials.
Educational publishing company
Prestwick House has been developing effective teaching guides and classroom
materials for English teachers for over twenty-five years. Prestwick House has
competed for 12 Distinguished Achievement Awards since 2006, has won 8 awards, and hopes to win the
remaining 4 this summer.
“Our commitment is to teachers,”
says senior editor, Paul Moliken. “Providing
quality materials that are immediately useful in the classroom is our goal, and
these nominations are a proven
indicator that we are on the right track.”
The
products recognized for this year’s
awards are Techniques of Propaganda and Persuasion; Discovering
Genre: Drama; Writing an A+ Research Paper: A Road Map for Beginning and
Experienced Writers; and Lead-Ins to Literature: The Great Gatsby.
Techniques of Propaganda and
Persuasion is an
essential collection of the most common propaganda techniques. Clear
definitions, compelling examples, and engaging activities give students a solid
understanding of the power of words and images to manipulate public opinion and
behavior.
Discovering Genre: Drama boasts three full-length plays:
Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Shaw’s Pygmalion, and Chekhov’s The
Seagull. These classic plays
help students to explore the unique aspects of drama as a literary genre. The book includes questions that will enable students to understand the
choices a playwright makes in creating a work for the stage. The first
book in this series, Discovering Genre:
Poetry, won the DAA in 2007.
Writing an A+ Research Paper: A
Road Map for Beginning and Experienced Writers guides students through the entire process of writing a
research paper with comprehensive sections on topics such as citing Internet
sources and how to avoid plagiarism. Unlike
other books on writing research papers that merely supply rules and examples,
this new guide from Prestwick House helps students develop their skills by
having them, step-by-step, assist two fictional students who are writing papers
at the same time.
Lead-Ins to Literature: The
Great Gatsby is a
comprehensive introduction to the book in convenient PowerPoint format. This informative, colorful,
illustrated presentation contains more
than 70 slides, detailing
all of the rich background of the Roaring
Twenties, a brief biography of Fitzgerald, a discussion of symbols, and many
essential facts about the book. Its
modern presentation is sure to appeal to today’s interactive media-savvy
students. Teacher J. Seeley says, “The Great Gatsby presentation
with its newsreel clips, captivating music, and many photographs, presents a
plethora of helpful material to the class…”
Lead-Ins to Literature: The Great Gatsby is the first presentation in a
series that will include titles such as To
Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies,
Macbeth, and many other popular
classics.
Prestwick
House has over 140 products on its production schedule this year and continues
to create innovative ideas for the English classroom like Lead-Ins to
Literature. Plans for future
projects include an anthology of African American Literature, a standards-based
vocabulary program, and an expansion of their line of literature teaching
guides.
About Prestwick House - Founded in 1983 by a former Dover High
School administrator, Prestwick House is a leader
in educational publishing. With a focus on helping English teachers in grades
9-12, Prestwick House publishes the largest selection of literature teaching
guides in the country, a line of classic novels, and hundreds of other
educational products. Find out more at www.prestwickhouse.com.
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If you’d like more information
about this topic or to schedule an interview, please call Keith Bergstrom at 302/659-2070 ext 131 or e-mail
Keith at keith@prestwickhouse.com
