My school textbooks (minus the accompanying teacher guides) in chronological order left to right, top to bottom:
1981: Crossroads 1: Imagining, Crossroads 2: Relating, Crossroads 3: Discovering
1984: Inside Poetry
1986: Dimensions: A Book of Essays
1987: Inside Stories I, Inside Stories II
1990: Connections 1: Imagining (2nd ed.), Connections 2: Relating (2nd ed.), Connections 3: Discovering (2nd ed.)
1993: Inside Stories for Senior Students
1995: Choices
1996: Dimensions II
1999: Inside Stories 1 (2nd ed.), Inside Stories 2: (2nd ed.)
2000: Gage Canadian Writer’s Handbook, Crossroads 10
2002: Inside Poetry (2nd ed.), Inside Stories III, Between the Lines 11, Between the Lines 12
2008: Nelson Canadian Writer’s Handbook, Persuade Me
2010: Inside Media (completed, but not published)
In total, 24 textbooks, 21 teacher’s guides= 44. Many more articles, monographs. Something like 70 school-related publications in all.
These textbooks have been authorized and used in every Canadian province at some time from 1981 till now (2014) for grades 9-12 ELA. Over 1 million units sold in the past 43 years. With multiple classroom usage, used by an estimated 3-5 million Canadian students. Many of the post-1999 books remain in print.
For the record, publishers have included Gage (extinct), Harcourt (extinct), Pearson, and Nelson. My excellent co-authors, without whom none of these projects would have been possible, have included Jerry Wowk and the late Glen Kirkland, both of Edmonton Catholic schools.
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My 2004 literacy tipsheet series, available from Edmonton Public:
Film as Text, Matters of Choice (in Writing), Metacognition: An Introduction, Sharing a Personal Response, Listening and Notetaking Skills, Understanding Character, Revise Your Writing, How to Do a Critical Response, Responding to a Photograph, Writing a Film Review.
I was also a consultant for a junior high 6 book ELA series for Pearson in 2008.
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“What a man essentially is is revealed by the record of what he has done, and by what he is trying to make of himself at any given moment.”–Northrop Frye, “Myth I”