SUSAN ELIA MACNEAL: Victoria Skurnick of LGR Literary (and my own beloved agent) was on Jungle Reds a few months ago, talking abou...
While I love to teach literary criticism, it's not everyone's cup of tea. For this reason, I wanted to put together a "starter pack" to help everyone teach literary criticism. As a student, I didn't learn about literary criticism until college, but there are plenty of reasons to consider introducing lit crit in high school. First, literary criticism requires creative and innovative thinking, so students feel challenged and engaged. Literary criticism encourages empathy and perspective-taking.
My junior classes traces the evolution of American literary movements. At times, this organization can be challenging because it's hard to get student excited about early American literature. However, over the years, I've learned to appreciate this structure for a few reasons: First, chronological study allows students to see how history and literature affect and reflect one another. Similarly, working with different literary movements helps students see the evolution of American literature.
Today, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. has been dead for eleven years. Somehow, it seems longer. Like Anne Rice, Sylvia Plath, and J.R.R. Tolkien, Vonnegut seems to inspire an unusually intense form of fandom—ma…
Teaching literary movements can be challenging. To help you out, I've designed five units with engaging resources, lessons, and texts!
While I love to teach literary criticism, it's not everyone's cup of tea, so I put together these engaging text collections and lessons!
Modernism is a tricky literary movement to define, but these suggestions will help you teach American literary modernism!
A Compromising Position by Carole Matthews
Realism is a unique period in American literature. With these essential questions and text pairings, students are sure to be engaged!
romantic movement in English and American Literature study guide notes by The Literary Lighthouse
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The File: A Personal History by Ash, Timothy Garton
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Wright’s darkly comic novel burrows into our hollow cravings, and finds more hollowness.
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Discover the lecture series that Borges gave at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and the spring of 1968. Listen to hours of his insights into poetry and other things literary. Open Culture, openculture.com
