Alan Hidalgo Educational Promotional Video Series: Between Two Worlds for AP and College Students.

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In this video, the focus is on the incredible impact of the Between Two Worlds 3rd Edition on High School Honors Students and College or University Students. Much of this impact is due to the instant connection felt by students who desire higher order thinking and deep understanding of life principles, combining both classical scientific thought (the Scientific Method and empirical evidence) and classical philosophy (logic and moral reasoning based on normative ethics). The life relevance and real human connection to the novels result in intrinsically motivated students who actually want to learn and grow by reading, analyzing, thinking, pondering, and responding in rhetorical Socratic Seminars and Essay Composition and Research Papers.

Many students in advanced high school classes and college and university courses have found the ten novels that comprise the Between Two Worlds: A Multicultural and Multilingual Anthology to have had a deep and lasting positive impact on their lives. This is due to the life skills taught via the many high interest themes found in each novel (difficult family upbringing, navigating relationships as a young adult, personal identity, culture, family dynamics, spirituality and important social issues such as immigration, abortion, multiculturalism, and forms of government, etc.) as well as the diverse cast of characters found in each novel (with settings ranging from California to Massachusetts to New Mexico to Texas to Indiana and origins ranging from immigration to the United States from Italy to Brazil and the Philippines to Nigeria and Mexico to Argentina and South Korea to Puerto Rico) and South America to the Middle East.

The BTW 3rd Edition series is comprised of the following:

-BTW Anthology: A Multicultural and Multilingual Anthology
--10 realistic novels, each with its own diverse cast of young adult characters that represent the many cultures and ethnicities found in the United States, and each with a unique central theme and character building life principles.

-BTW Student Workbook 3rd Edition (advanced) contains the following:
--Foundations of the Human Condition and Human Experience (Scientific exploration of human beings: Body, Mind, and Spirit).
--Transcendent Path of Argumentation (Higher Order Thinking, Moral Reasoning, and Rhetoric) that leads to evolved and enlightened cognitive ability and metacognition.
--Lesson 1 Vocabulary Development (from the 10 bold words found in each novel).
--Lesson 2: Reading Comprehension and Analysis (corresponding to each novel) divided into three parts: Plot Structure Analysis, Literary Devices Analysis, Main Character Analysis.
--Lesson 3: Socratic Reference Guide for Terminology and Socratic Templates to create and share and discuss worldviews.
--Lesson 4: Essay Writing Composition (prompts that correspond to the novels as well as quickwrites and research prompts).

-Critical Reading Section
--5 reading principles to accurately interpret literature

-Critical Writing Section
--The four main essay types: Argument, Response to Literature, Expository, Narrative (biographical and reflective) with detailed explanation
--Scaffolding toward the final draft (graphic organizers, outlines, draft templates, and editor checklists)

-BTW Instructor Manual Basic Edition contains the following:
--Scope and Sequence: Example Lesson Plans for a Novel Unit
--Answer Keys for all 10 Novel Units
--Multiple Choice Assessments (50 Questions) for all 10 Novels
--Answer Keys for all 10 Multiple Choice Assessments

Students have found the BTW series to have greatly impacted their education as they have improved their ELA/ELD skills; namely, their ability to think critically and enter into higher order thinking, to apply moral reasoning, to cognitively analyze literature, and to write strong academic essay responses. This, in turn, naturally leads to improved grades in the classroom and increased test scores on standardized assessments.