Teaching Literature

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drama/speech

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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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Websites on Teaching Narrative

Why (and how) should I teach storytelling?

Storytelling in the classroom

News as narrative/uses of narrative form

Graphic novels for multiple literacies

Librarian’s guide to short stories; story anthologies

Urban legends

Teaching With Pourquoi Tales

Wonder Woman stories

Hypertext links and reading

Narrative Matters: college course syllabus on narrative in literature and film

Teaching Literary Narrative in an Information Age

Circle of Stories: PBS program on stories

Tall Tales and Dark Sides: PBS program on Mark Twain’s stories

Point of View: PBS program on storytelling

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of autobiography in his stories: PBS program

What If? The Seed of a Story: PBS program (grades 6-8)

Producing Edgar Allen Poe: PBS program (grades 7-8)

Edgar Allen Poe

What Makes a Good Short Story: Study of “The Jury of Our Peers”

On-line classic short stories

American folklore

American short story: Themes for urban students

Latin American short fiction

Mystery short stories

Mystery detective stories

Detective fiction

Survival stories

Understanding narrative for ninth graders

Gary Soto, Baseball in April and Living up the Street

Writers as Artists, Artists as Writers; Response to Literature and Visual Arts

Short story version of Flowers for Algernon

Teaching James Joyce’s Dubliners

The Yellow Wallpaper

Bibliomania study guides

African-American storytelling traditions

African folktales

Aztec folktales

Slave narrative and autobiography

Dark Voices From Unmarked Graves [slave narratives]

Folktales

The Canterbury Tales

Arthurian Legends

La Casa en Mango Street (Spanish version)

Chekov stories: Sparknotes summaries

Melville stories: Sparknotes summaries

Poe stories: Sparknotes summaries

Mathison, C., & Gallego, M.A.. (2002). School Stories: The power of narrative in teacher education. Reading Online, 5 (8).

Unit: Reading short stories to write short stories

Library of Congress: Conducting life history research through images

 

Storytelling

Learning through storytelling

HBO: Unchained Memories : program on slave narratives

Library of Congress: Voices from the Days of Slavery

National Council of Teachers of English: Teaching Ideas: Teaching Storytelling.

National Storytelling Network

Storytelling Games

Story Arts online

Telling stories

Short Stories online

The Digital Storycenter

eServer: Short fiction

Hyperfiction: How-tos

Tips for writing short stories

Playing, Studying, and Writing Interactive Fiction

Exposition in Interactive Fiction

Bibliography: Interactive Fiction

Teri Lesesne, Using Short Story Collections in the Classroom, ALAN Review

 

Webquests

Teach Me a Story: students teach story analysis to each other

Evaluating short stories

Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Cinderella

Native American stories

Reconstructing The Yellow Wallpaper

Sharing classic short stories in class

Migration/Immigration narratives: Jacob Lawrence’s narrative painting

The House on Mango Street

Creating Tall Tales

Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales

Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man

The Canterbury Tales

The Knight’s Tale

The Awakening

Bridging Cultures through Stories

Mystery stories

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

 

Lesson Plans/Units

ReadWriteThink lesson: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?

ReadWriteThink lesson: Responding to stories through multimedia

ReadWriteThink lesson: Teaching Plot Structure through Short Stories

ReadWriteThink lesson: Creating word maps in responding to stories

Lesson: Studying a Poe short story

Lesson: Creating story totems

Lesson: Story maps

Lesson: Tales of the Supernatural

Lesson: Hawthorne: Author and Narrator

Lesson: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"

Lesson: Jack London: "To Build a Fire"

Lesson: Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories

Lesson: Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost

Lesson: Perspective on the Slave Narrative

Unit: fugitive slave narratives

Unit: From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography

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