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    Teaching Literature
    Teaching Literature
    Teaching Literature
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    Teaching Literature

    By Valerie Hockert, PhD

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustice Gray
    Release dateFeb 9, 2014
    ISBN9781310873089
    Teaching Literature
    Author

    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

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