Teaching Literature
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Are you looking for a book that will give you some better understanding of literature and how to teach it? With this teaching textbook and lesson planner you will leave your students with a better understanding and appreciation of literature through many of the works and stories covered.
This book covers writing responses and includes essay questions and projects for a student to work on. From the exploration of literature to post modernism, you will have plenty of material to cover a 12-week course. Have no fear, your lesson planner is complete!
From discussing the works of Ann Bradstreet to Thomas Jefferson to Emily Dickenson to Kate Chopin to Toni Morrison with many between, you will find this an excellent teaching guide and lesson planner.
Whether you teach in an institution or home school, you will find this book valuable.
Valerie Hockert has taught Literature at a college level for many years, and has a PhD in Literary Studies.
Valerie Hockert, PhD
Valerie Hockert, was born in the Midwest where she has lived all her adult life. She has had much life experience through her various entrepreneurial life. She has a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies, and a PhD in Literary Studies. Dr. Hockert has been teaching at a college level for many years. She was the first publisher of the Writers' Journal and Today's Family, two national publications. She is also a certified personal trainer, great chef, and the Publisher of an e-magazine: www.realitytodayforum.com.
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Teaching Literature - Valerie Hockert, PhD
Introduction
With using this book, you will have a better understanding of the selections through the discussion/essay questions listed. With the help of this book, you also can learn or teach your students:
* To analytically read selections from various periods
* Learn to relate the literature to personal lives
* Appreciate the different literatures from different regions.
* Compare and contrast literary works
Alphabetical List of Works
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Ardor/Awe/Atrocity by W. Walter Abish
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Brave New World by Adolphus Huxley
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Candide by Voltaire
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Hedda Gabbler by Henrick Ibsen
Housekeeping by Marrilynne Robinson
I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Krazy Kat by E.E. Cummings
Memories of My Father Watching TV by Curtis White
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
Splendora by Edward Swift
Stories from the Nerve Bible by Laurie Anderson
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
The Cariboo Café by Helena Maria Viramontes
The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Good Earth by Pearl S.Buck
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
The Pale Pink Roast by Grace Paley
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog by Mark Leyner
Trout Death by Port Wine by Richard Brautigan
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Why I Live at the P.O. by Edora Welty
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grammar Review
It is a good idea to have a grammar review at the beginning of the course, so that you know where students need particular help. Following is a list of items to review:
* allot vs. a lot
* although
* apostrophes
* audience
* bibliography—need to follow MLA format
* capitalization
* caps on words mid-sentence that shouldn’t be
* citations on