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How to use this site

CHAPTERS

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Goals for teaching literature: What does it mean to teach literature?

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Understanding students’ individual differences: Who are our kids?

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Planning and Organizing Literature Instruction: How Do I Decide What to Teach?

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Using Drama to Foster Interpretation: How Can I Help Students Read Better?

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Leading Classroom Discussions of Literature: How Do I Get Them to Talk about Literature?

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Writing about literature: How do I get them to write about literature?

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Using narratives in the classroom: What’s the use of story?

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Teaching text and task-specific strategies: How does the shape of a text change the shape of my teaching?

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Teaching the Classics: Do I Have To Teach the Canon, And If So, How Do I Do It?

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Multiple Perspectives to Engage Students with Literature: What are Different Ways of Seeing?

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Teaching Media Literacy: What else is a text and how do I teach it?

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Assessing and Evaluating Students’ Learning: How do I know what they’ve learned?

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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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Multicultural/World Literature

Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors
a fun site

World literature: essays/study guides

Webquest: The Bluest Eye: the beauty industry

Webquest: The Bluest Eye: who’s to blame?
students create a legal case for who is to blame for Pecola’s plight

Webquest: House on Mango Street

Webquest: The Harlem Renaissance and Raisin in the Sun

contemporary postcolonial literature

Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color
excellent site with biographical/critical information on women writers of color; site housed at the University of Minnesota

lots of Webquests organized by title

Teaching Chicano literature

Teaching Native American oral literature

Teaching Asian-American literature

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Student Units
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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

Images of Africa

Critical Multicultural Education and the Media

Latinos in the U.S. Media

Teaching Middle School Students about Media Representations (Smoke Signals, based on Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven)

An Integrated Unit of Chinese-American Literature and Media

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