Everything you need to understand or teach The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester.
The Professor and the Madman is ostensibly the story of the inception and creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest and most detailed work in the entire English language. But it is really the story of the strange interactions between two gentleman, a Scotsman, James Murray, who came, through atypical circumstances, to be editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and an American, William Minor, an army surgeon and schizophrenic who...
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Lesson Plans contain 137 pages of teaching material, including:
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