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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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General Classics Resources

Teaching The Odyssey (Sample Chapter), by Carol Jago, Classics in the Classroom : Designing Accessible Literature Lessons, Heinemann

Literature Teaching Materials

Web English Teacher Literature

Outta Ray's Head: Literature lessons

Random House Readers' Guides to Fiction

McDougall Littell Teaching Guides

About.com: lesson plans for novels

Sparknotes

Songs Inspire by Literature

Doucette Index: K - 12 Literature-based Teaching Ideas

Paul Brians: study guides for literary texts

 

High School Literature Lesson Plans

Teach-Nology: High School literature lesson plans

Kathy Schrock: High School literature lesson plans

Lots of resources/lesson plans

 

Teaching American Literature

Top 20 American Literature: lots of sites on American Literature

Edsitement: American Liteature lesson plans

Electronic Archives for Teaching American Literature: Course Syllabi

American Literature on the Web (by periods)

Voices of the Shuttle: American Literature

Project Crow: American literature course syllabi/resources

Early American Literature 1600 - 1900

American Literary Movements

Outline of American Literature

Perspectives in American Literature (different periods)

PBS: American Literature resources

Library of Congress: American Memory Project

PBS Masterpiece Theater: American Collection Project

All American: Literature, History, and Culture

Heath Anthology of American Literature resource site

Fact, Fiction, and the New World

A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times

American Renaissance and Transcendentalism

Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America

The Sixties Project

Modern American Poetry

About.com: lesson plans for popular American literature

American literature links from different pages

American Literature and Culture

Crossroads: American literature hypertexts

Online American Literature Resources

American Literature to 1900

American Renaissance

About: Mark Twain

NCTE: The American Collection

ReadWriteThink lesson: Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby

Lesson: The Red Badge of Courage as a New Form of Realism

Lesson: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers

Lesson: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying : Form of a Funeral

Lesson: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury : Benjy's Sense of Time

Lesson: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?

Lesson: Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Lesson: Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia

Lesson: Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

 

African-American Literature

Literature and Life: African-American Literature at the Givens Collection, University of Minnesota

African-American Literature online

Open-Directory: African-American authors

Harlem Renaissance writers

The Hurston/Wright Foundation

 

Native American Literature

Native American Literature

Native American Texts

Native American Literature

Native American authors

Native American authors

Native Web: Literature resources

 

American Literature Writers

American Authors on the Web

American Authors

Writers' Index: American authors

American Literature Anthology

American authors

Web English Teacher: author sites

Links to 1,016 authors

Wikipedia: American Authors

Open Directory: Contemporary authors

Open Directory: 20 th Century authors

Open Directory: 19 th Century authors

Bedford 's/St.Martin's: author sites

Paul Reuben: Contemporary American authors

LSU Library: Author Guides

Authors on the Web

Author links

C-SPAN: American Writers

Jack Lynch: American Authors

African-American authors

Mary Klages: Modern American Literature (lots of author links)

Maureen Howard: American women authors

Willa Cather

Martin Luther King

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Henry David Thoreau

Mark Twain

Mark Twain- Yahoo Directory

 

Teaching British Literature

English Theatre

Edsitement: British Literature: lesson plans

English Literature Resources

English Literature Database

 

Medieval Period

Norton Anthology: Middle Ages

Voices of the Shuttle: Middle Ages and Medieval Period

Jack Lynch: Medieval Period

Legends

Medieval Period writers

 

16th Century

Norton Anthology: 16 th Century British literature

Open Directory: 16 th Century British literature

 

17th Century

Voices of the Shuttle: 17 th Century British literature

Norton Anthology: Early 17 th Century British literature

Jack Lynch: Renaissance Period

Open Directory: 17 th Century British Literature

Cambridge English Electronic Renaissance Service

Luminarian

 

18th Century

Voices of the Shuttle: 18 th Century British literature

Norton Anthology: Restoration and 18 th Century British literature

Jack Lynch: 18 th Century literature resources

Open Directory: 18 th Century British literature

 

Romantic Period

Norton Anthology: Romantic Period

Voices of the Shuttle: Romantic Period

Jack Lynch: Romantic Period

Romantic Period writers

Roger Bailey: Romantic Period

 

Victorian Period

Norton Anthology: Victorian Age

Voices of the Shuttle: Victorian Period

Jack Lynch: Victorian Period

Roger Bailey: Victorian Period

The Victorian Web

Victorian Writers

Victorian Poets

Open Directory: 19 th Century British Literature

 

Modern Period

Norton Anthology: 20 th Century

Voices of the Shuttle: Modern Period

Jack Lynch: 20 th Century

Open Directory: 20 th Century British Literature

 

Contemporary Period

Voices of the Shuttle: Contemporary Period

 

British Literature

Jane Austen

Lewis Carroll

Geoffrey Chaucer

C. S. Lewis

George Orwell

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Early Shakespeare: A Short Course

Lesson: "You Kiss by the Book": Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Lesson: Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy

Lessons: MacBeth

Lessons: MacBeth

Lesson: Othello

Yale University Library: English Literature bibliography

Lesson: Beowolf

Lesson: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

Henry James

Lesson: George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"

 

Teaching World Literature

Voices of the Shuttle: Other Literature in English

Postcolonial Literature

PBS: World Literature resources

Jack Lynch: Other National Literatures

Edsitement: World Literature: lesson plans

20 th Century Latin American Writers

Latin American literature

Japanese Literature for the high school

A Europe of Tales: European myths

International Children's Digital Library

Dreaming: literature of Australia

World Myths and Legends

Center for Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents

African Literature

African Literature book list

African Literature on the Internet

African Literature book list

African Writers and Their Literature

African Writers--Voices of Change

Literature from around the world

World Literature by Women.

Women Writers and African Literature

Dante

Lesson: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart : Teaching Through the Novel

Lesson: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart : Oral and Literary Strategies

Lesson: Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!

Lesson: Japanese Noh plays

Lessons: Indian epics
edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=589

edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=591

edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=599

 
 
 

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