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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Censorship

ACLU: Censorship

ACLU: Students’ Rights

Thomas Jefferson Center for Freedom of Expression

ALA Freedom to Read Statement
a list of 7 reasons why the freedom to read is important

lots of links related to strategies for fighting censorship
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bette Greene: on academic freedom at an Arkansas university
author of Summer of My German Soldier

Middle Schoolers and the Right to Read

Censorship case: I Am the Cheese

Creating a Censorship Simulation
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

study: high school students’ reading interests

Rationales for Commonly Challenged Books

Most challenged books: 1990s: The Bluest Eye #34

Censorship Matters: mention of The Bluest Eye

NEA: Academic Freedom: Court Ruling: OK to Fire Teachers

Student Press Law Center

Censorship: An Educator’s Guide

Education Minnesota: Your Rights as a Teacher
information about legal rights/academic freedom

Banned Books Online

People For the American Way: free speech/anti-censorship advocates

National Coalition Against Censorship

ALA Workbook for Writing Selection Policy

Freedom to Read Foundation: ALA

American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom

Banned Books Week
lists of banned books

Students Right to Read
Rationales for Challenged Books. [CD-ROM]. National Council of Teachers of English (list of books on the CD-ROM)
For methods of developing rationales: Download pdf file: Rationales for Teaching Challenged Book
Cost is $29.95, NCTE members; $39.95, nonmembers. Stock # 38276-1525. You can order this from the NCTE Bookstore by calling (toll free) 877-369-6283 or e-mailing orders@ncte.org.

"Guidelines for Dealing with Censorship of Nonprint Materials"
developed in response to increased attempts at limiting teachers' use of students' access to films, video, and other nonprint materials

"Defining and Defending Instructional Methods"
presents rationales for methods that are sometimes challenged--journal writing, role-playing, whole language approaches, and others

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