Teaching Literature

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CHAPTERS
1	Goals for teaching literature: What does it mean to teach literature?
2	Understanding students’ individual differences: Who are our kids?
3	Planning and Organizing Literature Instruction: How Do I Decide What to Teach?
4	Using Drama to Foster Interpretation: How Can I Help Students Read Better?
5	Leading Classroom Discussions of Literature: How Do I Get Them to Talk about Literature?
6	Writing about literature: How do I get them to write about literature?
7	Using narratives in the classroom: What’s the use of story?
8	Teaching text and task-specific strategies: How does the shape of a text change the shape of my teaching?
9	Teaching the Classics: Do I Have To Teach the Canon, And If So, How Do I Do It?
10	Multiple Perspectives to Engage Students with Literature: What are Different Ways of Seeing?
11	Teaching Media Literacy: What else is a text and how do I teach it?
12	Assessing and Evaluating Students’ Learning: How do I know what they’ve learned?
13	Text Selection, Censorship, Creating an Ethical Classroom Environment. and Teacher Professionalism: How do I Stay in Control, Out of Trouble, and Continue to Develop as A Teacher?

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American Literature

All American: Literature, History, and Culture

Essays on the Teaching of American Literature from the Heath Anthology Newsletter

Issues in the teaching of American literature: from the T-AMLIT JOURNAL

Webquest: Call of the Wild

Webquest: To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird companion web site

Webquest: The Crucible

Webquest: Of Mice and Men

Webquest: The Scarlet Letter

Webquest: The Great Gatsby

lots of webquests by text/author

American writers: biographical information

Novel Guides: guides for specific novels

ClassicNotes: summary essays on texts

Sparknotes: study guides for novels

Author sites organized by period

themes/issues for evoking responses
includes students’ responses to issues/themes

History of American Literature: organized by period

lots of lesson plans

The Jolly Roger: literature for the current generation

KillDevilHill: lots of on-line literature

lots of English-teaching Webquests

Webquest: American literature and history: different periods

lots of American literature webquests

author information/guides

teaching multicultural aspects of early American literature

lots of resources for teaching American literature
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SITE

hundreds of study guides from Oxford/Cambridge

The Literature Network: on-line literature

Project Gutenberg: on-line literature
one of the most important on-line literature sites

college course syllabi

on-line literature by author

lots of cyberguides for teaching specific texts

Index of Authors

Literature links
American literature and ALL other kinds

American Literature Archive
This page functions as a table of contents and includes a plethora of diverse Internet resources specifically designed for the study of American Literature.

Library of Syllabi for Teaching the American Literatures

Post-WWII American Literature and Culture Database

American Literature Research and Reference Guide
research by time period

Project Crow (Course Resources On the Web)
website for American literature surveys

teaching guides (enter a title)

electronic archive: teaching American literature

Annenberg Learning Channel series: American Literary Passages
16 programs

American Literature on the web.

Chronological information on American literature

American literature literary periods

Hypertexts of various American literature sources; alphabetical; contains some more obscure titles/authors

Information on different kinds of American literature