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If you would like to recommend additional titles for this list, please send the title, author, and appropriate unit to smago@uga.edu. If you have a whole outline (texts and key concepts and problems) for a unit not listed here, please send it along as well, and I'll be happy to credit you. And if you have any Handy Links that I've overlooked, I'd be grateful if you'd share them with me. Thanks!
Also: Please keep in mind that this project is a work in progress. Some of the units--or perhaps all of them--are still under construction. I always appreciate your comments and suggestions on how to improve and expand them.
This page provides outlines for conceptual units of instruction of the sort found in the Virtual Library of Conceptual Units. For each unit I provide a set of possible texts and a possible conceptual focus. Keep in mind that my intention here is to suggest possibilities rather than to prescribe a curriculum; there are many other units that you could develop, and different texts and focuses for each of the units that I outline. The lists of texts are intended to be responsive to a range of readers in terms of age, reading ability, interests, and so on, so that the unit themes could be adapted to readers of different grade levels, communities, etc. The lists include both canonical works and less familiar texts, including literature, film, and popular music. There are far more texts listed than you would ever teach in any single unit; rather, the idea is to provide an idea of what is possible for teaching a particular theme. I would always hope that any teacher using these lists would use her own knowledge and imagination to make the instruction work for her own students and circumstances.
I've also tried to make this site as versatile as possible. In addition to the links to websites related to the various themes, I've linked (when possible) each text to an online version so that you can preview the literature when considering possibilities. I've further provided links to images and news stories that fit with each unit focus. And wherever possible, I link themes to teen writing available on the web.
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ACTIVITIES
THAT PROMOTE DISCUSSION
DIRECTORY OF CONCEPTUAL UNIT OUTLINES
Themes | Archetypes | Genres | Strategies | Literary Periods | Movements | Regions | Authors
THEMES
Background on Literary Themes
Adolescent Relationships
Alienation
The American Dream
The Banality of Evil
Bullying
Censorship
The Changing Climate and the Environment
Changing Times
Coming of Age
Community
Compassion
Confinement Literature
Conflict with Authority
Coping with Loss
Courageous Action
Cultural Conflict
Dis/Ability
Discrimination & Civil Rights
Efforts at Equality
The Family
Friends and Enemies
Gangs, Cliques, and Peer Pressure
Gender Roles
Generations
Health, Illness, & Wellness
Id, Ego, and Superego
Identity
Immigration
Influences on Personality
Justice
The Leader
Living in the City
Loss of Innocence
Love
Loyalty
Neurodiversity & Mental Health
New Kid on the Block
Optimism and Pessimism
The Outcast
Patriotism
Progress
The Psychology of British Literary Characters: From Chaucer
to the Moderns
The Puritan Ethic
The Quest for Power
Regret
Responsibility
Rites of Passage
Secrecy & Deception
Self Reliance
Shame
Social Responsibility
Sports and Society
Substance Abuse
Success
Taking Perspective
Technology, Nature, and Society
Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
Utopias and Dystopias
Values under Stress
War and Peace
ARCHETYPES
Background on Archetypes
The Caregiver
The Creator
The Epic Hero
The Folk Hero
The Innocent
The Jester
The Journey
The Lover
The Magician
The Mythic Hero
The Outlaw
The Picaresque Hero
Everyman and other Everypersons
The Ruler
The Sage
The Tragic Hero
The Trickster
The Woman Hero
Allegory
The Blues
Comedy
The Detective
Food & Feasts
Frontier Literature
Gothic Literature
Graphic Novels and Other Texts
Hard-Boiled
Heroes and Villains
Horror & Suspense
Humor
Mythology
Memoir
Metafiction
Mystery
Native American Literature
New Perspectives on Old Stories
Parody
Personal Philosophy
Pinkbooks
Protest Literature
Pulp Fiction
Romance
Satire
Science Fiction
Storytelling
Street Fiction
Time Travelers
Trading Places
Travel Writing
The Western
Wilderness Adventures
STRATEGIES
Background on Strategies and Literary Devices
Animals as Symbols
Character as Symbol
Characterizing an Author's Style
Code Switching
Connotation and Imagery
Critical Thinking
Fake News, Real News, and Media Literacy
Irony
Persuasion
Point of View
Prediction
Propaganda
Reading Media
Social Media
LITERARY PERIODS
Background on Literary Periods
British Aestheticism and Decadence
British Age of Sensibility (or Age of [Samuel] Johnson)
British Augustan Age (or Age of [Alexander] Pope)
British Caroline Age
British Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum)
British Edwardian Period
British Elizabethan Age
British Middle English Period
British Modern Period
British Neoclassical Period
British Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period
British Renaissance
British Restoration
British Romantic Period
British Victorian Period
Classic Greek Period (800-200 BCE)
Classic Homeric or Heroid Period (1200-800 BCE)
Classic Patristic Period (c. 70 CE-455 CE)
Classic Roman Period (200 BCE-455 CE)
U.S. Beat Generation
U.S. Colonial Period
U.S. Contemporary Period
U.S. Counterculture
U.S. Early National Period
U.S. Harlem Renaissance
U.S. Jazz Age
U.S. Lost Generation
U.S. Modernist Period
U.S. Revolutionary Age
MOVEMENTS
Background on Literary Movements
Amatory fiction
The Augustans
Black Arts Movement
Black Mountain Poets
Bloomsbury Group
Cavalier Poets
Chicago Renaissance
Confessional poetry
Dada
Dark Romanticism
The Enlightenment
Existentialism
Imagism
The Lost Generation
Magical Realism
Metaphysical Poets
Minimalism
Modernism
Naturalism
New York School
Nihilism
Oulipo
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Pre-Raphaelitism
Realism
Romanticism
Southern Agrarians/New Critics
Stream of Consciousness
Surrealism
Transcendentalism
REGIONS
Background on Regional Literature
A Sense of Place
British Lake Poets
Dialects
Literature, Music, Images, and Tastes of the U.S. States
Southern Fiction
AUTHORS
Author Links
Shakespeare
Handy Links
Adolescent
Romantic Relationships by Sarah Sorensen
Affairs
of the Heart Matter to Boys, Too, Sociologists Find
Adolescent
Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
The
Spectrum of Relationships (1998) by Dana Miller and Amanda Moneyhan
Relationships
(1999) by Charlie Hollingshead and Sandra Wood
The Youth Perspective:
A Study of Literature from Young Adults by Young Adults (2000) by Badia Askari
Making
Connections (2000) by Jennifer Swann & brian williams
Peeling off our
Labels: Changing Minds and Changing Lives (2002) by Melissa Leanne Givens
R-E-S-P-E-C-T:
Finding Out What It Means to Me--A six-week unit on respect (2003) by Phaedra
Adu, Shenika Glenn, Ruth Johnson, & Emily Moore
Life Paths
and Destinations: Toward Meaningful Textual Transactions for a 12th Grade British
Literature Class (2005) by Jeremy T Headrick
Negotiating Boundaries:
Making it Through Adolescence Alive (2005) by Ronnie Ficco
Recognizing
and Resolving Problems: Connecting Students to Their World (2006) by Helene
Halstead
Rebirth
(2000) by Kasey Barrett, Tara Dean, Amanda Endres, Julie Stinchcomb
Their America:
A Multi-Genre Take on the State of the Union's Teens (2008) by Kevin Mink
For
Better or Worse: Making the Most Out of Our Relationships (FSU) by Michelle
Quintero
Act
and React (FSU) by Emily Oppel
Walking
Across Egypt By Clyde Edgerton: Exploring the Social Limitations of Age and
Youth
Online
Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Media Literacy: Examining the World of Lizzie McGuire
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Search for Self: Voices of Adolescence in Literature
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute : Discovering the Voice Within: Encouraging Students
to See Themselves as Writers
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Uncovering Your Students' Authentic Voice
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Survivor: Not Just a TV Show -- An exploration of the
character traits of survivors of the teenage years
Novels
Sapphire:
Push
Poems
IN THE HEYDAYS OF HIS EYES (taut jeans dancing):
An Anthology of Poetry about Being Young and Growing Up
Because it looked hotter that way Camille Dungy
Curse # 7 Sherman Alexie
We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks
Mother to Son Langston Hughes
Saturday at The Canal Gary Soto
Declaration Of Independence Walcott Gibbs
December, 1919 Claude McKay
Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale Jane Yolen
Fifteen William Stafford
Another Poem on My Daughter's Birthday Craig Morgan Teicher
For My Daughter David Ignatow
Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Richard Brautigan
I Want the Certainty of Love in Another Language Christie Ann Reynolds
It had been long dark, though still an hour before supper-time Charles Reznikoff
Like Any Good American Brynn Saito
Hate Poem Julie Sheehan
The Lanyard Billy Collins
Portrait of a Girl With Comic Book Phyllis McGinley
Teenagers Pat Mora
Growth Ernest Dowson
Sentimental Moment Or Why Did The Baguette Cross the Road (Hershon)
For Julia, in Deep Water (Morris)
The Pomegranate (Boland)
You're (Plath)
This Happened (Williams)
The Sacred (Dunn)
Ground Swell (Jarman)
Deer Hit (Loomis)
Sticks (Ellis)
Adolescence (Andrews)
Bike Ride With Older Boys (Kasischke)
To a Daughter Leaving Home (Pastan)
My Papa's Waltz (Roethke)
Songs
Shakur,
Tupac: Brenda's Gotta Baby
Images
of Adolescent Relationships
Television
My So-Called Life
Friday
Night Lights
Key Concepts and Problems: What sorts of
relationships do young adults develop? With whom do they develop them? To what
is it extent to characterize a relationship as "healthy" or "unhealthy"?
What factors contribute to good relationships? What can undermine a relationship?
How can young adults consider the quality of their relationships through reading
and producing texts?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Speaking
Up: Alienation and Social Responsibility (2009) by Katie Crowell
On
the Outside Looking In (2012) by Kate Reynolds
Social
Alienation and Nonconformity: The Risks and Rewards of Journeying Beyond the
Pale (2012) by Helen Rhinehart
Films
Taxi Driver
Handy Links
What So Proudly We Hail: Making American Citizens through Literature
Wikipedia
entry on the American Dream
The
American Dream and Experience in Literature
American
Dream Bibliography
NYT; Text to Text | �A Raisin in the Sun� and �Discrimination in Housing Against Nonwhites Persists Quietly�
Quest
for the American Dream in A Raisin in the Sun
The American Dream- Annotated Bibliography: What is the “American Dream” and how has it changed? Compiled and annotated by Sara Lachman
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Working
Within/Against Our Limitations as Americans (1998) by Tiffany Lee and Kathryn
Johnson
The American
Social Drama (1999) by Jobie Johnson
Exploring
Struggle in American Plays (2000) by Heather V. Rachmuth & William J. Shuler,
Jr.
The American
Dream: Fact or Fiction? (2001) by Jennifer Howell
The
American Dream (2001) by Jay Blanton, Heather Wicker and Brad Williams
Beyond
Tacos and Pinatas: A Unit On Hispanic Literature (2001) by Beth Wright, Stephanie
Rosenberg, Kelly Hellman, Angie Furney
Passing
to the American Dream (2002) by Jennifer Bogdanich and Erin Butler
Ideal Destruction:
Constructing Realistic American Dreams (2002) by Rebecca Moon
Bridging
the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Movement (2003) by Kristy Mulkey &
Kasha Wharton
The American
Dream and The American Reality of the Jazz Age (2004) by Melissa Page
East
Asian American Literature: A Unit of Study and Lesson Plan (2004) by Ian Altman
& Nick Tang
Outsider
American Literature (2005) by Casey Nissenbaum & Annie Tremoulis
Working
Against Mainstream Culture: The Voices of Two Female African American Authors
from The Harlem Renaissance to the Present (2005) by Sarah Segrest
Contemporary
African American Literature (2005) by Kristal Stripling
Modernism
Unit: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot (2009) by Anne Krache
I Hear
My Classroom Singing: Whitman, Dickinson, Hip-Hop, and America (2009) by Tyler
Braddy
United
We Stand: Celebrating Diversity in America (FSU) by Jessica Egan
Re-Reading
History: Remembering Voices That Have Been Forgotten (2011) by Kate Towery
Writing
the American Dream (FSU 2011) by Tamara Francis
Embracing
Differences in America (FSU 2011) by Lenet Rivas
The Great Gatsby: Finding the Past in the Present (2013) by
Tiffany Chu
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Varying Views of America
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Read-Write-Think: Chasing the Dream: Researching the Meaning of the American Dream
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: American Voices: The Varied Carols We Sing
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Hearing Latino Voices in American Literature as a
Way for Students to Understand Their Own Hispanic Identity
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Voces Latinas: Cultural Identity through Poetry and
Lyrics
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Photographed Environment in America
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Latino Cultures and Communities
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Representations of American Culture, 1760-1960: Art and
Literature
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Art and Literature
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Other Voices - Latino and Chicano Literature and Identity
in America
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Epic, Romance and the American Dream
Learn NC: Martin Luther King,
Jr.'s “I Have A Dream” speech
Learn NC: Paving the Road to
the Constitution
Learn NC: "We the People"
Learn NC: "The American
Dream"
Learn NC: The Declaration of
Independence
Learn NC: "I Declare, I
believe this document May Flower!"
Learn NC: Hamilton and Burr:
Compare and contrast
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about patriotism
Poetry
Brooks, Gwendolyn: "My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait till After Hell"
Hughes,
Langston: I, Too, Sing America, Let America Be America Again", Harlem/A Dream Deferred"
Masters, Edgar Lee: "Spoon River Anthology"
Piercy, Marge: "The Secretary Chant"
Robinson, Edwin Arlington: "Richard Cory"
Sandburg,
Carl: Cool Tombs
Sassoon, Siegfried: The Case for the Miners
Teasdale,
Sara: Barter
Whitman, Walt: I
Hear America Singing, Song of
Myself, Song of the Open Road
Williams,
William Carlos: Pastoral
www.inauguralpoemproject.org
Short Story
Gordon, Roxy: Pilgrims
Owens, Louis: Soul-Catcher
Tallmountain, Mary Randle: Tender Street
Novels
Amis, Martin: Money
Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March
Burns, Olive Ann: Cold Sassy Tree
Cooper,
James Fenimore: The Deerslayer
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister
Carrie, An
American Tragedy
Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man, Juneteenth
Erdrich,
Louise: The Beet Queen, The Bingo Palace, Love Medicine
Fitzgerald,
F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion
Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt
Mailer,
Norman: An American Dream
Miller, Sue: Family Pictures
Mitchell, Margaret:
Gone with the Wind
Momaday, N. Scott: House Made of Dawn
Morrison, Toni:
Beloved
Proulx, E. Annie: The Shipping News
Redding, J. Saunders: Stranger
and Alone
Rolvaag, O. E.: Pure Gold
Twain, Mark: The
Gilded Age, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Tyler, Anne: Saint Maybe
Updike, John: Rabbit Run
Wharton,
Edith: Ethan Frome
Wright, Richard: Native Son
Nonfiction
Adams,
James Truslow: The Epic of America
American Slave
Narratives: An Online Anthology
Angelou, Maya: Morning in America
Bradford,
William: The Mayflower Compact
Ehrenreich, Barbara: Nickel and Dimed
Faulkner, William:
Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Hamilton, Alexander,
Madison, James, and Jay, John: The Federalist Papers
Jefferson, Thomas: Declaration
of Independence
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald:
Inaugural address
King, Martin
Luther: Christmas sermon on peace
The Lincoln Douglas debates
Malcolm
X: Message to the Grass Roots
Moon, William Least Heat: Blue Highways
Obama,
Barack: Speech on Race (a.k.a. "A More Perfect Union")
Obama, Barack: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Rawick, George
P. (Ed.): The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
Rose, Mike: "I Just Wanna Be Average"
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
Steinbeck, John: Travels with Charley, Paradox and Dream" (1966)
Terkel, Studs: American Dreams, Lost & Found
Whitman,
Walt: Democratic Vistas
Drama
Albee, Edward: The American Dream
Glaspell, Susan: Trifles
Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
Miller, Arthur: The Death of a Salesman
Serling,
Rod: Requiem for a Heavyweight
Williams, Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie
Autobiographies
Brown, Claude: Manchild
in the Promised Land
Cofer, Judith Oritz: Silent Dancing
Dillard, Annie:
An American Childhood
Franklin,
Ben: Autobiography
Hellman, Lillian: An Unfinished Woman
Kingston,
Maxine Hong: The Woman Warrior
Powell, Colin: My American Journey: An Autobiography
Graphic
Novels/Manga
Kaiji Kawaguchi: Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President
Grant
Morrison, John Dell, Howard Porter: JLA Vol. 2: American Dreams
Films
Citizen Kane
The Godfather Trilogy
It's a Wonderful Life
Meet John Doe
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Documentary Films
Black Males, Black Dreams
Songs
Born Again American
Trick
Daddy: Thug Holiday
Bruce Springsteen �Born to Run�
Los Tigres Del Norte: Somos Mas Americanos
Spoken Word
Brave New Voices
Games
Deadlock
Dictator Game
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the American
Dream? What is American about it? To what extent is it relative to time and place?
To what extent is it stable and enduring? How can the dream turn into a nightmare?
How can it be an illusion? With what does the American Dream come in conflict?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on
the Millgram experiment
The Evil of Banality
by Michael Rothbard
Wikipedia entry on the
Nuremberg Trials
Wikipedia entry on the My Lai
massacre
Wikipedia entry
on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal
Wikipedia
entry on the Stanford Prison Experiment
Kosovo - The "Banality
of Evil" by Gilles d'Aymery
Wikipedia entry on the Panopticon
Wikipedia entry on the
Kymer Rouge
Wikipedia entry on Ethnic
Cleansing
Wikipedia entry on the Pogroms
Wikipedia entry on
the Irish Potato Famine
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Understanding
the Holocaust (2010) by Mike Smith
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Investigating the Holocaust: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
Lord of the Flies Supplemental Reading and Online Discussion
Writing
by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about the Holocaust
Poetry
Heyen,
William: Shoah Train (collection of poems)
Short Stories
Jackson,
Shirley: The Lottery
Novels
Bradbury, Ray: Farenheit 451
Clark,
Walter Van Tilburg: The Oxbow Incident
Dick, P. K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?
Giordano, Mario: Black Box
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Le Guin,Ursula K.: The Dispossessed
Rendell, Ruth: 13 Steps Down
Sleater,
William: The House of Stairs
Strasser, Todd: The Wave
Twelve Hawks, John:
The Traveler
Drama
Rose, Reginald: 12 Angry Men
Film
American Experience: The Nuremberg Trials
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Oxbow
Incident
The Specialist
Das Experiment
Conspiracy
High Noon
Blade
Runner
Rosemary�s Baby
Song
Destroy:
Banality of Evil
Genesis:
Just a job to do
Pink
Floyd: On the Turning Away
Sylvian,
David: The Banality of Evil
Graphic Novels/Manga
Spiegelman, Art:
Maus: A Survivor's Tale; Maus II: From Mauschwitz to the Catskills
Osamu Tezuka:
Adolf
Comics
Doonesbury 8-16-08
Essays
Diguette,
Rick: Keeping quiet is coward’s way out
The
Speech That Shocked Birmingham the Day After the Church Bombing
Images of the Banality of Evil
News Stories on the Banality of Evil
Key Concepts and Questions: What is the banality of evil? What is the individual's role in relation to authority? What responsibility do individuals have when groups act in ways that can be considered evil? Are individuals evil when they do not contest the behavior of the groups they belong to if they think that behavior is wrong? Is there a clear answer to the degree of responsibility an individual bears for uncontested group behavior?
Handy Links
Clinical Trials on the Effects of Bullying
Cyberbullying awareness and prevention
A Comprehensive Cyberbullying Guide for Parents
Stop Bullying Now!
Cyberbullying: The Complete Resource Guide
Prevention
of Bullying in Schools, Colleges, and Universities (2013 AERA report)
Dealing
with Bullying
American
Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry: Bullying
Education.com
Bullying at school and online
Medline Plus: Bullying
The Bully Project
What
Literature Fosters the Examination of Bullying Behaviors?
Dismantling
Bullying with a Class Magazine: Creating Connections and Community
What
Can Bystanders Do to Prevent Bullying of Students Who Are Different (or Perceived
as Different) from Others?
http://emilybazelon.com/media/
Books to Begin Conversations about Bullying" by Lesley Roessing
We Need Diverse Books!
The Parents Guide to Internet Safety, Security and Screen Time for Kids
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Bullying:
Students' Actions and Potential Consequences (FSU) by Taneshia Jones
Bullying:
Awareness, Prevention, and the Media (FSU 2011) by Sidney Rutledge
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
Read-Write-Think:
A Bad Case of Bullying: Using Literature Response Groups
Read-Write-Think:
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Novels
Books
about Bullying
9th Girl, by Tami Hoag
Bad Girls, Bad Girls, by Cynthia Voigt
Bully Vile, by Francine Prose
Dear Life, You Suck, byScott Blagden
Endgame, by Nancy Garden
Jumped, by Rita Williams-Garcia
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mickelson
One, by Kathryn Otoshi
The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
Oliver Button is a Sissy, by Tomie dePaola
Blubber, by Judy Blume
Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal
Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25, by Richard Paul Evans
Blood Don't Lie, by Aaron Levy
Short Stories
"Priscilla and the a Wimps" by Richard Peck
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
"On the Bridge." By Todd Strasser
"All Summer in Day" by Ray Bradbury
"Tuesday of the Other June" by Norma Fox Mazer
Picture Book
Bully by Patricia Polacco
Crow Boy by Taro Yashima
Diary of a Real Bully by Melody Arabo
How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller
Memoir
Little by Little: A Writer’s Education by Jean Little
Dear Bully: 70 Authors tell their stories edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones
Non-fiction
Sticks and Stones, by Emily Bazelon
Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About the Cycle of Fear, by Carrie Goldman
Please Stop Laughing at Me, by Jodee Blanco
Poetry
"Drop a Pebble in the Water" by James W. Foley
TV & Film
Biggest Bullies of TV & Film
Handy Links
Wikipedia
entry on Censorship
Censorship,
the Internet, Intellectual Freedom, and Youth
American
Library Association Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A
Free
Speech
The Censorship
Pages
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Testing
the Boundaries: A Unit on Censorship in America (2002) by Valerie Aveni, Erica
Barbakow, Meg Ingram, & Bonnie Stewart
Censorship:
Breach of Freedom or Exception to the Rule? (2004) by Molly Livingston
Looking
at Our Past and Our Present through Our Future: Expanding and Interpreting Text
(2007) by Carrie Greynolds
Don’t
Touch That: Censorship and Literature in the High School Classroom (2011) by
Kristin Dalton
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Read-Write-Think:
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
Learn NC: Defining Risk: A Search
for Theme in Fahrenheit 451
News Stories about Censorship
Links
to news stories about Jack Thompson and his crusade against violence in video
games
Key Concepts and Questions: Why are books and other texts banned? What is the difference between censorship and other forms of text banning? What does the banning of a text reveal about the people who want it banned? What does it reveal about the text itself? What can and should people do when censorship takes place? Why should we care whether a text is banned or not?
THE CHANGING CLIMATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Handy
Links:
"Imagining a Future for the Planet Through Literature, Writing, Images, and Drama," by Richard Beach
Wikipedia entry on Climate Change in Popular Culture
Inventing Climate Change Literature
The rise of climate fiction: When literature takes on global warming and devastating droughts
So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created A New Literary Genre?
Cli-Fi: The Emerging Genre of Climate Change Literature
Climate change in literature and literary criticism
100 views of climate change
A People's Curriculum for the Earth
Review of Garbology
Mass Extinction Currently Underway
Lists and descriptions of cli-fi literature
Novels
Bacigalupi, Paolo: Shipbreaker
Ted Hughes: The Iron Woman
Cameron Stratcher: The Water Wars
Elizabeth Dulemba: A Bird On Water Street
M.T. Anderson: Feed
Allegra Goodman: The Other Side of the Mountain
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Word for World is Forest
Sarah Crosnan: Breathe
J.G. Ballard: A Drowned
Carl Hiaasen: Hoot, Flush
Cynthia De Felice: Lostmans’s River
Claire Dean: Girlwood
Andy Mulligan: Trash
Paul Fleishman: Seedfolks
Brian Falkner: The Tomorrow Code
Short Stories
Bacigalupi, Paolo: "The Tamarisk Hunter," "The Calorie Man," and many others
Handy
Links:
Tradition
vs. Change: The South Valley in the 21st Century
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Humanity
and Voice in Literature: Building Bridges among the Past, Present, and Future
(2003) by Katherine Dodd, Elizabeth Garrard, & Audrey Welshhans
Poetry
Arnold, Matthew: The
Buried Life, Dover
Beach, Stanzas
from the Grand Chartreuse
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: AEolian
Harp, Dejection:
An Ode
Hardy,
Thomas: The Darkling Thrush
Keats, John: Ode
on a Grecian Urn, To
Autumn
Masters, Edgar Lee: Spoon
River Anthology
Yeats,
William Butler: The Second Coming
Short Stories
Faulkner, William:
Go Down, Moses
Irving, Washington:
Rip Van Winkle
Anderson,
Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio
Novels
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Aluko, T. M.: One Man, One Wife
Faulkner, William: The Hamlet, The Town,
The Mansion, The Rievers
Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion
Lampedusa,
Giuseppe di: The Leopard
Mahfouz, Naguib: Midaq Alley
Marquez, Gabriel
Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country
Tarkington, Booth: The Magnificent
Ambersons
Wharton,
Edith: Age of Innocence
Wolfe, Thomas: You Can't Go Home Again
Autobiographies
Eastman,
Charles Alexander: From the Deep Woods to Civilization
Mandela,
Nelson: Long Walk to Freedom
Drama
Hellman, Lillian: The Little
Foxes
Wilder, Thornton: Our Town
Williams, Tennessee: The
Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire
Films
The Last Picture
Show
Water (Deepa Mehta, Dir.)
The Misfits
Wadjda
Song
Haggard,
Merle: Are the Good Times Really Over for Good?
The
Persuasions: Don't It Make You Want to Go Home
Scott-Heron, Gil: B Movie
Shakur, Tupac: Changes
Shakur,
Tupac: Keep Ya Head Up
Springsteen,
Bruce: Glory Days
Key Concepts and Problems
How has society changed
over time? What are the old values and conditions? What are the new values and
conditions? What has caused these changes? How do the characters adapt to the
changes? What is the author saying about human nature through the action in the
story?
Handy Links:
Wikepedia entry on Coming
of Age
Wikepedia entry on Bildungsroman
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Coming of
Age (1998) by John Melton
Coming
of Age (1998) by Scott Porter and Don Horacek
Transformations
(2009) by Deirdre Kraushaar
Coming
of Age/Loss of Innocence (2010) by Stephanie Gray
Coming
of Age and Constructing Identity, with Jacqueline Woodson: (2010) by Sarah Douglas
The Sky is
Falling (2011) by Kaitlin Bevis
Coming of Age in The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
(2013) by Carly Stephans
Literary Perspectives of Growing Up: Coming of Age Tales by Michael Potts (OSU 2016)
The Road Paved By Choice by Chloe Andrews (OSU 2016)
"Nothing Gold Can Stay": Dealing With Trauma and Innocence Lost by Johannah (Hannah) Koehnen Eley (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A WebQuest on Iran
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Coming of Age in Ethnic America
Writing by
Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about coming of age
Poem
Cofer, Judith Ortiz:
Crossings
Short Stories
Anderson,
Sherwood: I'm a Fool
Chukovski, Nicolai: The Bridge
Hurst, James:
The Scarlet Ibis
Lessing, Doris: Through the Tunnel, A Sunrise on the Veld
McCullers, Carson: Like That
Munro, Alice: Red Dress
Updike, John:
A & P
Walker, Alice: Everyday Use
Wright, Richard: The Man Who Was
Almost a Man
Novels
Alcott,
Louisa May: Little Women
Arguedas, Jose Maria: Deep Rivers
Baldwin,
James: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bennett, Kay: Kaibah
Conway, Jill
Ker: Road from Coorain
Courteney, Bryce: The Power of One
Dorris, Michael:
Guests
Grass, Gunter: The Tin Drum
Guest, Judith: Ordinary People
J-Love:
That White Girl
Kincaid, Jamaica: At the Bottom of the River
Kingsolver,
Barbara: Bean Trees
Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
Laye, Camara: The
Dark Child
Le Guin, Ursula: Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
McCullers,
Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Milosz, Czeslaw: The Issa Valley
Parks, Gordon: The Learning Tree
Paterson, Katherine: Jacob Have I Loved
Rolvaag, O. E.: The Third Life of Per Smevik
Sister Soulja: Coldest Winter
Ever
Twain, Mark:
Tom Sawyer
Autobiographies
Beauvoir, Simone de: Memoirs of a Dutiful
Daughter
Dillard, Annie: An American Childhood
Mitchell, Emerson Blackhorse:
Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: A Day of Pleasure:
Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw
Films
Wikipedia
Coming of Age Film list
Graphic Novels/Manga
Satrapi, Marjane: Persepolis
Webcomics
Wikipedia
Webcomics links
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the definition of
maturity? What examples of immature behavior do the protagonists exhibit before
their coming of age experiences? What examples of mature behavior do they exhibit
after their coming of age experiences? What is the key incident that causes the
protagonist to change? What particular characteristics does this incident have
that affect the protagonist so profoundly? What are the similarities among the
experiences of the characters in the various stories? How truly do these experiences
reflect those of real people? In what ways does the reader have empathy for the
protagonist? How does this empathy affect the reader's comprehension?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Community (2013) by Cortney Seaborne
Handy Links
Acts of Compassion in Literature � A Special #1000Speak Edition of �Theme: A Story�s�Soul�
The Power and Importance of Compassion in�Literature
A review of the literature on compassion prepared for the Cultivating Compassion Project 2014 -2015
Teaching Compassion through Literature
Reading literary fiction improves empathy, study finds
Compassion through Literature
How Reading Literature Cultivates Empathy
Novels
Because Of Anya by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
House Arrest by K.A. Holt
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Because Of Anya by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
House Arrest by K.A. Holt
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Picture Book
The Artist And Me by Shane Peacock
Memoir
Warrior's Heart: Becoming A Man Of Courage And Compassion by Eric Greitens
Poems
"How to Love Your Little Corner of the World" by Eileen Spinelli
"Blue Bucket" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Poem for a Bully" by Eileen Spinelli
Handy Links:
Marc Lamont Hill: A World without Prisons: Teaching Confinement Literature
and the Promise of
Prison Abolition
Handy Links:
Rage Against
the Machine: Media and Youth,Cultures of Violence
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Should
I Make a Stand? Adolescent Conflict with Authority (2007) by Amanda Tyndall
Adolescent
Struggle With Authority While Searching For Identity (FSU) By Carlin Huenke
Writing by
Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about conflict
The Bible
The
Golden Calf (Exodus 32, 33:1 6)
Poetry
Alexie, Sherman: The Lone
Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Short Stories
Baldwin, James:
The Man Child
Cather,
Willa: The Sentimentality of William Tavener
Deal, Bordon: Antaeus
du Maurier, Daphne: The Old Man
Lavin, Mary: The Story of the Widow's Son
Ortiz, Simon J.: Woman Singing
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.: Harrison Bergeron
Wright, Richard: The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Novels
Alcott,
Louisa May: Little Women
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Louis,
Adrian C.: Skins
Mathews, John Joseph: Sundown
McNickle, D'Arcy: The Surrounded
Orwell, George:
Animal Farm
Potok, Chaim: The Chosen
Steinbeck, John: The Red Pony
Autobiography
Fisher,
Antwone Quenton: Finding Fish
Drama
Chayefsky, Paddy: The Mother
Shakespeare,
William: Romeo and Juliet
Images of Conflict with Authority
Key Concepts and Problems
Who is the
authority figure? What characteristics does this figure have? From what sources
does the authority derive his or her power? What are the characteristics of the
protagonist? What causes them to clash? What is the outcome of the clash? How
is the clash resolved? What does the protagonist learn through the clash?
Handy
Links:
Coping with
Death
Death:
An Inquiry into Man's Mortal Weakness
Young
adult reactions to death in literature and in life
The
WiSSP Resource Library: Coping with Loss in Literature
Literature
and the Healing Arts
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Journeys of
Grief: the Quest of War, Inward and Out (2007) by Naomi White
“Breaking
Up is Hard to Do”: A Conceptual Unit on Dealing with Loss for 10th grade
(FSU) by Anna Martinez
Writing
by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about death
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about funerals
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about loss
Teenlit writing by teens about 9-11
Wordsmiths:
An Anthology of Writing by Teens on the Web:
Volume No. 44, Remember September 11, Special Edition
Prayers
Last
Rites
Mourner's Kaddish
Poetry
Auden, W. H.: Funeral Blues
Brooke,
Rupert: The Dead
Browning,
Robert: My Last Duchess
Burns,
Robert: Auld Lang Syne
Dickinson, Emily: Because
I could not stop for Death; I
heard a Fly buzz when I died ; After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Frost, Robert: Out,
Out; After
Apple Picking; Fire and Ice ; Home Burial
Gray, Thomas:
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Heine, Heinrich: Death
Hopkins,
Gerard Manley: Spring and Fall to a Young Child
Housman,
A. E.: To an Athlete Dying Young
Howe, Marie: What the Living Do
Keats, John: Ode
to a Nightingale, La Belle Dame
Sans Merci
Kenyon, Jane: Let Evening Come
Kinnell, Galway: First Song
Lorde, Audre: From the House of Yemanja
Oliver, Mary: In Blackwater Woods
Poe, Edgar Allan: The
Raven, Annabel Lee
St Vincent Millay, Edna: Dirge without Music
Stevens, Wallace:
Domination of Black
Tennyson,
Alfred: In Memoriam
Thomas,
Dylan: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night ; Fern Hill
Whitman,
Walt: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Wordsworth, William: Intimations of Immortality
Wright, Charles: Black Zodiac
Wright, C.D.: Rising, Falling, Hovering
Young, Kevin: Dear Darkness; Book of Hours
Epic Poem
Hirsch, Edward: Gabriel
Short Stories
Borges,
Jorge Luis: The Circular Ruins
Chekhov,
Anton: Enemies
Faulkner, William: A Rose for Emily
Harjo, Joy: The
Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Hemingway, Ernest: Hills Like White Elephants
Joyce, James: The
Dead, A Painful
Case
Kafka, Franz: The Judgment
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Tuesday
Siesta
Marra, Anthony: The Tsar of Love and Techno; A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Porter, Katherine Anne: The Grave
Steinbeck,
John: Flight
Novels
Agee, Philip: A Death in the Family
Devoto, Pat Cunningham: My Last Days as Roy Rogers
Guest, Judith: Ordinary
People
Saunders, George: Lincoln in the Bardo
Tolstoy, Leo:
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Children's Literature
Erlbruch, Wolf: Duck, Death, and the Tulip
Ferber, Brenda: Julia's Kitchen
LaFleur, Suzanne: Love Aubrey
Nonfiction
Baldwin, James: Notes of a Native Son
Didion, Joan: My Year of Magical Thinking
Hemon, Aleksander: Aquarium
Levy, Ariel: Thanksgiving in Mongolia
Drama
Arrabal, Fernando: Picnic on the Battlefield
Galsworthy,
John: The Apple Tree
Lonergan, Kenneth: Manchester by the Sea, You Can Count on Me, Margaret, The Waverly Gallery
Miller, Arthur: A View from the Bridge
Song
Bugguss,
Suzy: Letting Go, In Heaven
Clapton,
Eric: Tears in Heaven
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: Osiyeza (The Crossing)
McEntire,
Reba: The Greatest Man I Never Knew
Shakur,
Tupac: I Ain't Mad Atcha
Shenendoah, Joanne: Dance of the North
Wolf,
Kate: Medicine Wheel
Spoken Word
The Moth Story Hour
Key Concepts and Problems
What is lost? What
do the characters lose through the loss? What do they gain? How do the characters
cope with grief? How does their coping affect them? How do they change? How are
the grievers treated by others? How does this treatment affect them? What is the
author saying about the human ability to cope with great loss?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Complicating
Courage: From Warriors Don’t Cry to “The Most Dangerous Game,”
What Does it Mean to be a Warrior? (2008) by William Peek
Courageous
Action (2009) by Nina Williams
Elie
Wiesel's Night: Out of the Darkness: A Study of Literature from the Darkest
Moments in Human History and Mankind's Effort to Emerge into the Light
Moral
Courage and Endurance: A Necessity for Change (2012) by Brooke Gendron
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Boys Read: Considering Courage in Novels
Read-Write-Think:
Examining Island of the Blue Dolphins through a Literary Lens
National
Geographic: John Brown and the Underground Railroad
Writing by
Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about courage
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about heroism
Teen
Ink writing by teens about heroes
Mythology
Hercules
Poetry
Kipling, Rudyard: Gunga Din
Short
Stories
Agee,
James: A Mother's Tale
Buck, Pearl: Guerilla Mother
Connell,
Richard: The Most Dangerous Game
Freeman,
Mary E. Wilkins: The Revolt of Mother
Hemingway, Ernest: A Day's Wait
London, Jack: To Build
a Fire
Poe,
Edgar Allan: The Cask of Amontillado
Vasconcelos, Jose The Boar Hunt
Novels
Carter, Forrest: The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales
Cather,
Willa: Death Comes to the Archbishop
Crane,
Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
Hemingway,
Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
Markandaya, Kamala: Nectar in a Sieve
Trumbo,
Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun
Welty, Eudora: The Robber Bridegroom
Autobiographies
Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Giovanni, Nikki: Gemeni
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny: A Precocious Autobiography
Drama
Buck, Pearl:
The Rock
Fletcher, Lucille: Sorry, Wrong Number
Nonfiction
Wiesel,
Elie: Night
Films
The Lost Weekend
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Wooden Camera
3:10 to Yuma
Graphic Novels/Manga
Miller, Frank: 300
Video Games
The Halo Franchise
Zelda Franchise
Games
Chicken
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the definition
of courage? What key incident tests the protagonist's courage? How does the character
respond to this challenge? Is the character's action courageous? Why or why not?
What values in conflict bring about situations calling for courage? Would a courageous
action in one situation necessarily be regarded as courageous in the context of
another? Why or why not?
Handy Links:
Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art
Conflicts
and Challenges of Jewish Culture
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Alternate
Narratives: The Revision of Cultural Representation in Achebe's Things Fall
Apart (2008) by Brian Patrick
Am
I a “Weapon of Massive Consumption”? : Learning to Fire the Canon
(2010) by Kelly Galloway
Traveling
in the World's Footsteps (FSU) by Katie Rybakova
Re-Reading
History: Remembering Voices That Have Been Forgotten (2011) by Kate Towery
From Sandy to Sudan: Childhood in Crisis:
A Unit on Global Literature and Engagement by Lindsay J. Wrinn , Fairfield University
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's
“Mother Tongue” and Beyond
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about culture/traditions
Teen
Ink writing by teens about
cultural experiences
Poetry
The Confluence of Culture, Conflict and Commitment in Selected Modern Palestinian Poetry 1948 to 1993: a Postcolonial Perspective
Chrystos:
Not Vanishing
Hardy, Thomas:
The Man He Killed
Owen, Wilfred: Anthem
for Doomed Youth, Strange
Meeting
Peters, Lenrie: Parachute
Rubadiri,
David: Stanley Meets Mutesa
Short Stories
Achebe, Chinua: A Man
of the People
Buck, Pearl: The Frill
Isherwood, Christopher: The Berlin
Stories
Kipling,
Rudyard: The Man Who Would Be King
Nicol, Abioseh: The Devil at Yolahun
Bridge
Popkes, Opal Lee: Zuma Chowt's Cave
Tapahonso, Luci: The Snakeman
Warrior, Emma Lee: Compatriots
Novels
Alexie, Sherman: Reservation
Blues, Indian Killer
Beti, Mongo: Mission to Kala
Bissoondath, Neil: Insecurity
Conrad,
Joseph: Heart of Darkness
da Cunha, Euclides: Rebellion in the Backlands
Ekwensi, Cyprian: People of the City
Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India
Gaup, Ailou: In Search of the Drum
Gordimer, Nadine: Livingstone's Companions
Greene, Graham: The Human Factor
James,
Henry: The American
Lawrence,
D. H.: The Plumed Serpent
Louis, Adrian C.: Skins
Mourning Dove:
Cogewea: The Half-Blood
Iweriebor, Ehiedu E.G.: Colonization of Africa
Munonye, John: The Only Son
Naipaul, V. S.: Miguel Street
Orwell,
George: Burmese Days
Power, Susan: The Grass Dancer
Qoyawayma, Polingaysi:
No Turning Back
Scott, Paul: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion,
The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Tan, Amy: Joy Luck Club
Thiongo, Ngugi wa: The River Between
Nonfiction
(Essays)
Cheng, Nien: Life and Death in Shanghai
Orwell,
George: Shooting an Elephant
Twain,
Mark: Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress
Autobiographies
Danticat, Edwidge: Brother, I'm Dying
Fire Lame Deer, Archie: Gift of
Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
Rogers, John: Red
World and White
Song
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: Third World Child
Johnny
Clegg: Orphans of the Empire
Yothu Yindi: Treaty, Djäpana, Stop That, many others
Spoken Word
Beatty, Daniel: Duality
Duel
Curry, Julian: Niggers
Niggas & Niggaz
Hidary, Vanessa: "The
Hebrew Mamita"
Film
The Class
A Great Wall
Dances with Wolves
Once Upon a Time in China
Once Upon a Time in China II
Once Upon a Time in China III
Up the Yangtze
Who am I?
The Wooden Camera
Graphic Novels/Manga
Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama: The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in
San Francisco, 1904-1924
Video Games
Grand Theft Auto Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
In what ways are
the cultures different? Is one culture more powerful than the other? If so, in
what way? In the author's view, is one culture superior to the other? If so, in
what ways? Do you agree with the author's judgment? What is the outcome of the
clash? Is the outcome "fair"? Why or why not? How do characters change
as a result of their experience with another culture?
Handy Links
Careers & Degrees in Healthcare: A Guide for Students with Disabilities
Disability Studies in Composition: Teaching Rhet/Comp with "DS"
Recommended Books About the Disability Experience
Dis/Ability Reading List
Disability and Poetry: An Exchange
Disability Visibility Project
Novels
10 Captivating Books That Portray Disease and Disability Through Fiction
Goodreads Disabled Book List
Top Ten Books about Disability
Physically disabled and differently abled->Teen fiction: Books
Disability in Middle Grade Novels
Disabled Characters in Fiction
Poetry
10 Poems to Kickstart your Disability Class
Disability Poems
Best Disability Poems
Disability Poems
Listen To The Silence: Poems About Life With A Physical Disability By: Sarah Ismail
Disability Rights Power Poetry
Drama
Disability Movies and Drama
Disability Asian TV Dramas
Performing (Everyday) Exceptionalities: A Web-Text on Disability in Drama and Performance Art
Song
My Top 25 Disability Pride Songs
Disability in popular song
14 Songs for Stormy Days With Chronic Illness and Disability
Disability and the media: music and song lyrics
Handy
Links:
ASIAN STEREOTYPES IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE: Looking at Circus posters from 1850 to 1950v
Becoming Anti-Racist English Teachers: Ways to Actively Move Forward
25 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students
The
Invisible People: American Art and Literature Represents the Marginalized and
Disenfranchised
Teaching
the Concept of Equality Through Literature
The
United States of America’s Long Journey: The Concept of Equality in America
from 1619-1863
http://www.pinterest.com/adamsbookco/teaching-social-justice/
http://www.pinterest.com/adamsbookco/tolerance-action-for-change/
The Fred Korematsu Institute
NNSTOY Social Justice Book List
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Social
Stratification and Discrimination (1999) by Jeff Deroshia
Will the
real Mockingbird please stand up? (2009) by Julie E. Duke
To
Kill a Mockingbird (FSU) by Jessica Trehy
Creating
False Identities: Breaking Down the Myths of Childhood by Amy Lou Brouner, Elizabeth
Madani, & Nishi Patel, Georgia State University
Is That a Boy or a Girl? Exploring Gender Identity as a Facet of Civil Rights
(2013) by Stefanie Molinaro
Walking in Someone Else's Shoes by Alexandria Akins (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson
Plans:
Read-Write-Think:
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media
Read-Write-Think:
Child Labor: Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Read-Write-Think:
Promoting Diversity in the Classroom and School Library through Social Action
Read-Write-Think:
Seeing Integration from Different Viewpoints
Read-Write-Think:
Using Picture Books to Explore Identity, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Gordon Parks' Photography: Breaking Down Racial Barriers
with Real Life Stories
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: African American History: A Photographic Record
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Blues Impulse in Drama: Lessons on Racial Pain
Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute: Racism and Nativism in American Political Culture
Learn
NC: Respecting differences
Learn
NC: Differences Across the Curriculum: Part 1
Learn
NC: Differences Across the Curriculum: Part 2
Learn
NC: Jim Crow and segregation
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about the elderly
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about handicaps
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about poverty
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about prejudice
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about racism
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about slavery
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about stereotypes
Poems
Maya
Angelou: On the Pulse of Morning
Langston
Hughes: Mother to Son
J.
G. Saxe: The Six Blind Men
Juanita Bell: Indian Children Speak
Soyinka,
Wole: Telephone Conversation
Peter Blue Cloud: The Old Man's Lazy
Len Margaret: Night School
Elizabeth Brewster: Jamie
Alden
Nowlan: He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded
Short
Stories
Maria Campbell: Play with Me
Kurt
Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron
Shirley Jackson: After You, My Dear Alphonse
José Antonio Burciaga: Romantic Nightmare
Ray
Bradbury: All Summer in a Day
Abrahams, Peter: Tell Freedom
Hutchinson,
Alfred: Road to Ghana
Johnson, Dorothy M.: A Man Called Horse
Le Guma,
Alex: Where Are You Walking Around, Man?
Luthuli,
Albert: The Dignity of Man
Muro, Amado: Cecilia Rosa
Olds, Sharon: On the Subway
Thomas, Piri:
Puerto Rican Paradise
Walker, Alice: Everyday Use
Novels
Alexie,
Sherman: Reservation Blues, Indian Killer
Conkling, Winifred: Sylvia & Aki
Ekhart, Alan: A Sorrow in Our Hearts
Gaines, Ernest: A Lesson Before Dying
Goines, Donald: White Man's Justice,
Black Man's Grief
Greene, Bette: The Drowning of Stephan Jones
Griterson,
David: Snow Falling on Cedars
Hinton, S. E.: The Outsiders
Hurston, Nora
Zeal: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Louis, Adrian C.: Skins
Markandaya, Kamala: Nectar in a Sieve
Morrison,
Toni: Beloved, The Bluest Eye
Mourning Dove: Cogewea: The Half-Blood
Myers, Walter Dean: Monster
Otsuka, Julie: When the Emperor Was Divine
Rhodes, Jewell Park: Ninth Ward
Sepys, Ruta: Between Shades of Gray
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
Walker,
Margaret: Jubilee
Weisel, Elie: Night
Wright, Richard: Native Son
Nonfiction
(Essays)
Amnesty International: Free? Stories About Human Rights
Baldwin, James: The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
Hughes, Langston: Fooling Our White Folks
King,
Martin Luther, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Longauex y Vasquez,
Enriqueta: The Mexican American Woman
Redding, Saunders: American Negro Literature
Nonfiction (Books)
Bausum, Ann: Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
Debo, Angie: And Still the Waters Run
Ehrenreich, Barbara: Nickel and Dimed
Greene,
Melissa Fay: Praying for Sheetrock
Kozol, Jonathan: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Minoui, Delphine and Nujood Ali: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Terkel, Studs: Division Street: America
Weatherford, Jack: Native Roots, Indian Givers
Autobiography
Angelou,
Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Beah, Ishmael: A Long Way Gone: Memories of a Boy Soldier
Frank, Anne: Diary of a Young Girl
Wright, Richard: Black Boy
Drama
Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the
Sun
Shakespeare,
William: Othello
Shaw, George
Bernard: Pygmalion
Wilson, August: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Films
Clearcut
Crash
Dance Me Outside
Do the Right Thing
Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner?
In the Heat of the Night
The Long Walk Home
Once Were Warriors
Shindler's List
Smoke Signals
Swing Kids
A
Soldier's Story
X-Men
Song
Harry Belafonte: Kwela (Listen to the Man)
Johnny Clegg: One (Hu)man, One Vote, Inevitable Consequence of Progress, Asimbonanga
Billie
Holiday: Strange Fruit
Bob Marley & the Wailers: War
Dave
Matthews Band: Cry Freedom
The Weavers
(and many others): Sixteen Tons
Vanessa
Williams: Colors of the Wind
Spoken Word
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: The Danger of a Single Story [TED Talk]
Voices of the Movement (Podcast series)
Documentary Films
Eyes on the Prize series
How We Got Over
Martin Luther King, Jr.: From Memphis to Montgomery
Civil Rights Learning Journey
Video Games
Final Fantasy 7
Key Concepts and Problems
Why is the character
being discriminated against? In what ways is the character different from the
group that's discriminating? Does the character want to be accepted? Why or why
not? What forms of discrimination is the character subject to? How is the character
affected by discrimination? How is the conflict resolved? What in the environment
leads to discrimination? What makes discrimination more likely in one environment
than in another?
Novels
Anderson, M.T.: Feed
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid's Tale
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
Brown, Pierce: Red Rising
DuPrau, Jeanne: The City of Ember
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go
Lowry, Lois: The Giver
Oliver, Lauren: Delirium
Westerfield, Scott: Uglies
Short Stories
Vonnegut, Kurt: Harrison Bergeron
Nonfiction
Margaret Atwood: ”Writing Utopia” and “George Orwell: Some Personal Connections”
Marx & Engels: The Communist Manifesto
The Declaration of Independence
Handy Links:
The Traditions,
Culture and Family of New Mexico
ParentBest
Wikipedia entry
on Family Life in Literature
The Role of Family in Young Writers� Lives by Alison Heron-Hruby
10 Steps to Writing an Engaging Family History
On the Bookshelf: Writing Family History
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Family (2002)
by Emily Davis
The Dynamics
of Family (2002) by Kimberly A. Evans
The Changing
American Family (2004) by Erin Bailey
Relationships:
Authority, Family and Peer (2000) by Patrice Loggins, Rustina Thomas, and Brooke
Taggart
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
Read-Write-Think:
Investigating Names to Explore Personal History and Cultural Traditions
Read-Write-Think:
My Life/Your Life: A Look at Your Parents’ Past
Read-Write-Think: Family Memoir: Getting Acquainted With Generations Before Us
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Family Finding: Exploring Multicultural Families Using
Film
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: American Family Portraits (Section I)
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: American Family Portraits (Section II)
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Family Ties in Latin American Fiction
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Images of the American Family
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Family in Literature
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Changing American Family: Historical and Comparative
Perspectives
Learn NC:
Grandparent Interview
Learn
NC: Family Story with Research
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Families in Bondage
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about brothers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about divorce
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about the elderly
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about the family
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about fathers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about home
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about marriage
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about parents
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about pets
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about siblings
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about sisters
Teen
Voices Online: Guatemalan Girls Raise Their “Voces de Cambio”: Mothers
Poetry
Bode, Carl: The Bad Children
Brooks, Gwendolyn: The
Children of the Poor
Carver,
Raymond: Photograph of My Father in His Twenty Second Year
Dickey, James:
The Bee
Hayden,
Robert: Those Winter Sundays
Roethke,
Theodore: My Papa's Waltz
Plath, Sylvia: Daddy, The
Disquieting Muses
Sentimental Moment Or Why Did The Baguette Cross the Road (Hershon)
For Julia, in Deep Water (Morris)
The Pomegranate (Boland)
You're (Plath)
This Happened (Williams)
The Sacred (Dunn)
Ground Swell (Jarman)
Deer Hit (Loomis)
Sticks (Ellis)
Adolescence (Andrews)
Bike Ride With Older Boys (Kasischke)
To a Daughter Leaving Home (Pastan)
Short Stories
Bambara, Toni Cade: Raymond's Run
Boles, Paul Darcy: The Night Watch
Chekhov,
Anton: Enemies
Freeman,
Mary E. Wilkins: The Revolt of Mother
Gray, Nicholas Stuart: The Star
Beast
Hesse,
Hermann: A Man by the Name of Ziegler
Jackson, Charles: A Night Visitor
Kelley, William Melvin: Brother Carlyle
Morrison, Toni: Recitatif
Steinbeck, John:
Flight
Stuart, Jesse: Love
Williams,
William Carlos: The Use of Force
Novels
Allende, Isabel: House of
the Spirits
Bell, Betty Louise: Faces in the Moon
Blue, Rose: Goodbye,
Forever Tree
Burns, Olive Ann: Cold Sassy Tree
Cross, Gillian: On the
Edge
Dorris, Michael: Morning Girl
Irwin, Hadley: What About Grandma?
Lamott, Anne: Rosie, Crooked Little Heart
Maloney, Ray: The Impact Zone
Mazer, Norma Fox: Three Sisters
Smiley, Jane: A Thousand Acres
Stowe,
Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
Autobiographies
Allende, Isabel: Paula
Angelou, Maya: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Gather
Together in My Name
May, Lee: In My Father's Garden
McBride, James: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother
McCourt, Frank: Angela's Ashes
Obama, Barack: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Schlissel, Lillian (ed.): Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Nonfiction
Griffin, Garah Jasmine (Ed.):
Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends
Drama
Hansbury, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
Shepard, Sam: Paris, Texas
Film
A Great Wall
A River Runs Through It
Soul Food
Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest
To Sleep with Anger
Juno
Barking Water
What Maisie Knew
Television
My So-Called Life
Friday
Night Lights
Documentary Film
Trouble
the Water
Song
Clegg, Johnny (& Savuka): Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
Jackson,
Alan: Please Daddy don't get drunk this Christmas
McEntire, Reba: The Greatest Man I Never Knew
Shakur,
Tupac: Dear Momma
Spoken Word
Fred Wesley and the new
J.B.'s: Breakin' Bread
Discussion
Larry Wilmore, The Nightly Show: Black Dad Summit
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the definition of
a family? What do family members share? What types of conflicts occur within families?
How are they resolved? What goals do families have? How do family needs affect
the behavior of the characters in the story? What outside influences affect the
family? Are these influences good, or bad? Why?
Handy
Links:
Friendship
Selections
Yahoo
Links to Friendship Poetry
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Friendship
(1998) by Scott Morgan and Marla Sciara
Friendship:
Understanding and Cultivating It “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship” (FSU) by Amy Bradick
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about friendship
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about hatred
Short Stories
Fante, John: The
Odyssey of a Wop
Galsworthy,
John: The Apple Tree
Oliver,
Diane: Neighbors
Drama
Maugham, Somerset: The Letter
Novels
Auel, Jean: The Clan of the Cave Bear
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
Bridgers, Sue Ellen: Home Before Dark
Cary, Joyce: The Horse's Mouth
Cervantes,
Miguel de: Don Quixote
Dumas,
Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India
Greene, Bette: Summer of my German Soldier, Morning is a Long Time Coming
Greene,
Graham: Brighton Rock
Guy, Rosa: The Friends
Hesse, Hermann: Demian,
Narcissus and Goldmund, Siddhartha
Hunt, Irene: Across Five Aprils
Kazantzakis,
Nikos: Zorba the Greek
Kerr, M. E.: I'll Love You When You're More Like Me
Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
Lawrence,
D. H.: Women in Love
Le Guin, Ursula: Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
Mahy, Margaret: Catalogue of the Universe
Myers, Walter Dean: Hoops
Oates, Joyce Carol: Solstice
Paterson, Katherine: Jacob
Have I Loved, The Bridge to Terabithia
Puig, Manuel: The Kiss of the
Spider Woman
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
Strasser, Todd: Friends
Till the End
Zalben, Jane Breskin: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Drama
Serling, Rod: In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Film
Ma Vie en Rose
(My Life in Pink)
Twilight of the Golds
Role Playing Games
Darling Grove: A Game
of Suburban Drama and Friendship
Video Games
Favorite
Video Game Enemies?
The
10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies
Key
Concepts and Problems
What draws friends together? What causes people to be
enemies? How do the characters try to settle their differences? How are the conflicts
resolved? What is the author trying to say about the nature of friendship? What
is the author trying to say about the nature of conflict?
GANGS, CLIQUES, AND PEER GROUP PRESSURE
Handy Links:
Juvenile
Delinquency in the U.S.: Deconstructing the Recipe
When
the Good Go Bad: Why Juveniles Become Delinquent
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Peer
Relations, Peer Influence and Conformity (1998) by Terri Avery & Jennifer
Hood
Gangs,
Cliques, and Peer Pressure (2002) by Julia Bateman
Recognizing
Reductionism: Identifying the Stereotypes Placed on Individuals and Groups by
Society (2002) by Bethany Bishop
Analyzing
Adolescent Pressures & Choices through Young Adult Literature (FSU) by Anna
Harman
The
Faces of Evil – A Look into Adolescent Violence (FSU) by Yahshae Mainer
Stereotypes,
Labels, and Identity (FSU 2011) by Elizabeth Blackburn
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
Read-Write-Think:
No More Bullying: Understanding the Problem, Building Bully-Free Environments
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about conformity
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about fitting in
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about outsiders
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about peer pressure
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about popularity
Teen
Ink writing by teens about fitting in and being different
Short
Stories
Andreyev, Leonid: Nippie
Bambarara, Toni Cade: The Lesson
Bradbury, Ray: All Summer in a Day
Cozzens, James Gould: The Animals'
Fair
Gantos, Jack The X-15s
Hwang, S. T.: The Donkey Cart
Langdon, John: The Blue Serge Suit
LeGuin, Ursula: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Shalen, Eve: The In Group
Stafford, Jean: Bad Characters
Taylor, Elizabeth: Nice and Birds and
Boy
Vaca, Nicolas C.: The Purchase
West, Jessamyn: Live Life Deeply
Novels
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Hinton, S. E.: Rumble Fish, The Outsiders
Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye
Peterson, P. J.: Corky and the Brothers Cool
Strasser, Todd (a.k.a. Morton Rhue): The Wave
Drama
Rose, Reginald:
Dino
Shakespeare,
William: Romeo and Juliet
Films
The Breakfast Club
Colors
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles
West Side Story
The Warriors
Video Games
Grand Theft Auto Franchise
The Warriors
Saints Row Franchise
Images of Gangs, Cliques, and Peer Pressure
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the values of the group
applying pressure? Why have they adopted these values? Why do they try to impose
them? In what ways is the protagonist different from the group? How does the protagonist
respond to the pressure? How does the protagonist change during the story? What
are differences among gang, clique, and peer group? Why do kids join? Why do such
groups form?
Handy Links:
APA GUIDELINES
for the Psychological Practice
with Boys and Men
LGBTQ Help and Support: Resources for Students
GenderTalk
Radio by Topic
Gender Issues in the
Language Arts Classroom. ERIC Digest
Gender roles
(ENotes)
Fairy Tales
and Gender Roles
Female Gender Roles in Fairy Tales
Books Boys
Can't Resist
Teaching
Gender Roles at a Christian Liberal Arts College
Trans Student Educational Resources
The Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers
Wikipedia entry on Feminist Theater
50 Essential Feminist Films
Gender-neutral pronouns
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Women in Literature
(2001) by Allison Trice
Emerging
Identities and Socially Constructed Gender Awareness (2005) by Pamela M. Amendola,
Devon McCarthy, & Ryan L. Neumann
Gender
Roles in American Literature (2006) by Tanya Martin,
Maggie Taylor, Mimi Voyles, & Chris Woodward
Famous
Femme Fatales: A Brief Feminist Literature Unit (2009) by Adrienne Keathley
Part 1 Part
2
Stepford
Wives and Macho Men: An Exploration of Contemporary Gender Representations (FSU)
by Kimberly Mayer
Is That a Boy or a Girl? Exploring Gender Identity as a Facet of Civil Rights
(2013) by Stefanie Molinaro
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About Women
Read-Write-Think:
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Read-Write-Think:
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Read-Write-Think:
From Friedan Forward—Considering a Feminist Perspective
Read-Write-Think:
Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
Read-Write-Think:
He Said/She Said: Analyzing Gender Roles through Dialogue
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Women Writers in Latin America
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Women's Voices in Fiction
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: American Maid: Growing Up Female in Life and Literature
Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute: Gender, Race, and Milieu in Detective Fiction
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Cultural Change
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through
Film
Learn NC: Women of
the South in a Changing Society
Writing by Teenager
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about body image
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about boy stories
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about feminism
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about gay issues
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about gender roles
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about girl stories
Fairy Tales
Cinderella
Hansel
and Gretel
Poetry
Allerton,
Ellen P.: Woman's Work
Angelou,
Maya: Woman Work
Chester, Laura: Eyes of the Garden
Dorman,
Karla J.: A Woman before she is a Child
Naheed, Kishwar: I am not that
woman
Saphra, Jacqueline:
A Woman's Work
Schroeder,
Bethany: Woman's Work
Scott,
C. A.: Women's Work: A Poem
Short Stories
Faessler, Shirley: A
Basket of Apples
Freeman,
Mary E. Wilkins: The Revolt of Mother
Hemingway,
Ernest: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Huang, Veronica: Backstage
Hurston,
Zora Neale: Sweat
Rau, Santha Rama: Who Cares?
Thurber,
James: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta: Inem
Walker, Alice: Everyday Use
Novels
Arnow, Harriette: The Dollmaker
Atwood, Margaret: The Penelopiad
Bujold, Lois McMaster: Paladin of Souls
Cashore, Kristin: Graceling
Chopin,
Kate: The Awakening
Eugenides,
Jeffrey: Middlesex
Goines, Donald: Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
Hurston,
Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Langton, Jane: Her Majesty, The Boyhood of Grace Jones
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow: Gift from the Sea
Pierce, Tamora: Tricksters Choice, Tricksters Queen, Battle Magic, Songs of the Lioness, Protector of the Small, Immortals
Rawlings, Jane : The Penelopeia: A Book in Verse
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
Woolf, Virginia:
Orlando
Dark Companion by Marta Alcosta
Re Jane by Patricia Park.
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Gabi, Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Witness by Karen Hesse
Make Lemonade by Virgina Euwer Wolff
El Deafo by CeCe Bell
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Last Cherry Blossom by Kathleen Burkinshawl
The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie Sue Hitchcock
Fatty Legs by Christie Jordan-Fenton
Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Their Eyes Were Watching God would fit this bill. It's really fun to teach.
Antigone
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
Between shades of gray Ruta Sepetys
Braced by Alyson Gerber
Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick
Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
The Good Braider by Terry Farish
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki,
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is one of my favorites.
The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir by Farah Ahmedi.
Z for Zachariah
Necter In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson.
Code Name Verity
Stacey Lee's Under a Painted Sky.
Brown Girl Dreaning: Jacqueline Woodson
Mockingbird: Kathryn Erskine
Make Lemonade: Virginia Euwer Wolff
Stella By Starlight: Sharon Draper
Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Sook Nyul Choi
So Far from the Bamboo Grove, Yoko Kawashima Watkins
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Unbound by Ann E. Burg
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper
Memoir
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir by Farah Ahmedi
Feminist Books for Teens
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/podcast-episodes/feminist-books-teens-30784.html
Drama
Shaw,
George Bernard: How He Lied to Her Husband
Hatcher,
Jeffrey: Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Mamet, David: Oleanna
Lipkin, Joan: Database of plays
Film
9 to 5
Bintou
Offside
Tootsie
Underground
- Short Film by Kristen Dehnert & Aimee Lagos
Victor/Victoria
Wadjda
Waitress
Water
Documentary Film
Hurt, Byron: Beyond, Beats, and Rhymes
Stand with Queer Youth
The Perfect Victim
Graphic Novels/Manga
Hagio Moto: They Were Eleven
Takahashi, Rumiko.
Ranma
Judd Winick: Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned
Songs
Kate
Bush: This Woman's Work
Johnny
Clegg: Daughter of Eden
Judy
Collins: Albatross
Meredith
Brooks: Bitch
Shania
Twain: Man, I Feel Like a Woman
Helen
Reddy: I am Woman
Hozier: Take Me to Church
Matt Gold: Drown before you Swim
Mary Lambert Remakes 'Jessie's Girl' for Lesbians
Spoken Word
Tavi Gevinson at
the ideaCity conference, Toronto 2010
Ted Talk: Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue
TV programs
Mad Men
Downton Abbey
Games
Battle
of the Sexes
Video Games
Metroid Prime Franchise
Blogs
Pink is for Boys
Key Concepts and Problems
How are the roles of males
and females presented in the literature? What is the point of view of the narrator
toward these roles? What is the point of view of the author toward these roles?
How do these roles reflect the values of the culture and era of the story's setting?
To what extent are these roles consistent with attitudes toward gender roles in
your community?
Handy
links:
Save Ellis
Island
Family
History
Introduction
to Genealogy
Family
Memoir: Getting Acquainted With Generations Before Us
Lesson
Plan on Family History and Past Generations
Genealogy
Links
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
on the Internet
The
Family and Identity
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Family Memoir: Getting Acquainted With Generations Before Us
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Cultural Discovery and Identity Project Generation Journey
Novels
Barber, Lou: The Baker Affair: 3 Generations of an American Family at War
Butler, Octavia: Kindred
Chun, Pam: When Strange Gods Call
Gamble, Terry:
Good Family: A Novel
Gildner, Gary: My Grandfather's Book: Generations of
an American Family (Michigan And The Great Lakes)
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country
Tan,
Amy: The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Kitchen God's Wife
Short Stories
Halper, Albert: Prelude
Wright, Richard: Almos a
Man
Poetry
Burgess, Frank Gelett: Sestina of Youth and Age
Gibran,
Kahlil: On Children
Suckow, Ruth: Grandpa Schuler
Children's Stories
Woodson, Jacqueline: Show Way
Film
A Great Wall
Key Concepts and Problems
Why do people care about
their ancestors? To what extent are people the product of the people who came
before them? What do families pass down from generation to generation? How are
generations different from one another? What defines a family over the course
of generations?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia on Id, Ego, and Superego
McLeod, S. A. (2008). Id, Ego and Superego
Examples of Id, Ego, and Superego
Freudian Trio: Literature
Online Lesson Plans:
Read-Write-Think: An Introduction to Psycholanalytic Criticism
Read-Write-Think: Id, Ego, and the Superego in Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat
Freudian Literary Analysis Lesson Plan
Experimenting with Freud's Theory of Dreams
Freudian Approach to Their Eyes Were Watching God
Novels
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Wilde, Oscar: The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Short Stories
Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery
Poetry
Marvell, Andrew: To His Coy Mistress [see Hammad Mushtaq, The Triumph of Id over Ego and Superego in To His Coy Misstress]
Drama
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Essays
King, Stephen: Why We Crave Horror Movies
Zimbaro, Philip: The Lucifer Effect
Song:
Iron Maiden: Lord of the Flies
U2: Shadows and Tall Trees
Handy Links
Wikipedia entry
on Identity (social sciences)
Psychology Today: Identity
Google
Search Books on Identity
Wikipedia entry on
Cultural Identity
Beyond Cultural Identity:
Reflections on Multiculturalism
A
Celebration of Identity: Black Men and Boys in Children’s and Young Adult
Literature
Cultural Identity by Peter Prevos
Cultural
Identity and Teaching
Cultural
Identity and Diaspora
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Transformations
(2009) by Deirdre Kraushaar
Social
and Cultural Factors in the Construction of Identity (2010) by Megan Lewis
Identity
in Southern Literature (2010) by Ansley Deese, Julie Kristin, & Amber Higginbotham
Identity:
Who Am I? (FSU) by Katie Baker
Find
Out What You Believe in, and Stand Up For It! (FSU) by Chloe Kendall
Walk
a Mile in my Shoes (FSU) by Laramie Ohms
Search
for Identity: Hamlet (FSU) by Samar Al Slaiby and Brandi Doutherd
The
Road Map to My Identity (FSU) by Seth Federman
Symbols:
Life without Words: Cultural Awareness and Self-Identity through the Evolution
of Tattoos (FSU) by Giannina Ferraro
Adolescent
Struggle With Authority While Searching For Identity (FSU) by Carlin Huenke
A
Hero Lies in You (FSU) by Kaitlyn Akos
“Peeling
Away the Layers” A Unit on Social Boundaries For 9th grade (FSU) by Katherine
Barr
“Who
am I, and why does it matter? A unit on life, death, and the meaning of it all.
12th grade honors. (FSU) by Jenny Davis
Inner
Beauty and Self-Image, Grade 9 (FSU) by Christen Ellrich
Empowering
Voices (FSU) by
Mallory Knabb
You
Went through What? Struggles Students are Forced to Overcome (FSU) by
Erin Litvak
Through
the Fire: Adversity (FSU) by
Annie Lockman
Going
Against the Grain: "This is who I am. Nobody said you had to like it." (FSU) by
Nicole Lopez
Be
the one Change You Wish to See, 9th Grade (FSU) by Alison Pfeifer
The
Battle of You: Struggling against Social and Family Expectations and creating
an Identity, as seen through Text and Street Art (FSU) by Mark Robbins-Penniman
The
Power of Choice: How do our decisions affect our lives and the lives of others?
(FSU 2011) by Erin Grysko
Why
Blend In: Accepting Individual Differences within Self and Others (FSU 2011)
by Stacy Ward
Dare
to be Different (FSU 2011) by Ashley Wiseman
Constructing
Identity (2012) by Lj Reinders
The Hero Inside, an Examination of the Epic Hero by David Anthony Gibbons (OSU 2016)
There Are Two Worlds: The Division of Identity by Emily Stephens (OSU 2016)
The Color of Identity in African American Literature
by Hannah Hunter (OSU 2016)
The Road Paved By Choice by Chloe Andrews (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Mapping Your Identity:
A Back-to-School Ice Breaker
Art
Activities for Exploring Identity
Who am
I? Exploring Identity
Read-Write-Think:
Using Picture Books to Explore Identity, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” and
Beyond
Identity, Rights,
and Responsibility
Self-Portrait
Lessons
Learn NC: A matter of identity:
Writing an extended metaphor poem
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Defining Cultural Identity: Thinking Outside the Box
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Cultural and Personal Identity Through Poetry
Everyone
Has a Culture—Everyone Is Different
Where's
Waldo?
Identity
Circles: A Personal Exploration of Diversity
Identity, Belonging,
and Social Inclusion
Spoken Word
Fred Wesley and the JB's--Damn
Right I Am Somebody
Fred Wesley and the JB's--Same
Beat pts.1,2,3
Handy Links:
Immigration/Migration:
Today and During the Great Depression: Links
Learn
About Immigration
We are Mostly Immigratns: Thanks Bryan Ripley Crandall
Online Lesson Plans
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Immigration and American Life
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Becoming a "Gringo": Immigrants, Language
Learning and Acculturation
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Remaking America: Contemporary U.S. Immigration
Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute: Immigrants and American Identity
National
Geographic: Through the Eyes of a Refugee
Learn
NC: Why Come to America?
Literature
Discussing
Immigration through Literature
Crossing
the Border, A Study of Immigration Though Literature
Research
immigration and family histories
Literature
with Immigration Themes
Film
Media
that matter Film Festival: Immigration
Films
on Immigration
Immigration
& the Movies!
Immigration/Migration:
Today and During the Great Depression: Film
God Grew Tired of Us
Songs
Songs
about Immigrants
Thousands
Are Sailing: Irish Songs Of Immigration CD
Immigration
Songs
Video Games
Grand Theft Auto IV
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text
Read-Write-Think:
Audio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences with Audio Texts
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Transformations
(2009) by Deirdre Kraushaar
A
Child’s World (FSU) by Kelly Cassidy
Fear,
and Conquering Fear: Using writing to channel emotions productively (FSU 2011)
by Daniel Do
Dealing
with life: Understanding inner conflict (FSU 2011) by Rebekah Hurd
Novels
Bums, Olive: Cold Sassy Tree
Childress, Alice: A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, Rainbow Jordan
Greene, Hannah: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Lipsyte, Robert: One Fat Summer
Myers, Walter Dean: It Ain't All for Nothin'
Peck, Robert Newton: Justice Lion
Sleator, William: House of Stairs
Stewart , Mary: The Crystal Cave
Torchia , Joseph: Kryptonite Kid
Twain, Mark: The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
Key Concepts and Problems
What influences do the
characters face? Consider such factors as family, religion, friends, media, laws
and rules, temperament, intellect, talent, and values. Which of these influences
are good? Which are bad? Which influences are the greatest? How does the character
respond to the influences? What is the character's real personality? Do the influences
shape the character into something other than his or her real self? What does
the character discover at the end? How does this realization affect the character?
Handy Links:
Focusing on
Juvenile Justice
Realizing
Our Inalienable Rights Through Literacy and Citizenship
American
Justice and Student Rights
United
States; T.R.I.C.K.Y.: Teenage Reality, Ideals, Citizenship, Keepsakes, and You
Smagorinsky,
P. (1994). Bring the court room to the classroom: Develop civic awareness with
simulation activities. The Social Studies, 85, 174-180.
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Social
Injustice (1998) by Nelie Betress and Bridget Taylor
Understanding
Human Rights through Literature (1999) by Jenny Cockrill, Stephanie Hall, Rebecca
Long
Crime
and Punishment (2003) by Jessica
Hagans and Kate Phillips
The American
Justice System: Does It Work? (2007) by Megan Kingsley
Revolution—A
Judgment of Justice (FSU) by Victoria D. McDonald
Walking in Someone Else's Shoes by Alexandria Akins (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court
Read-Write-Think:
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
Read-Write-Think:
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
Read-Write-Think:
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
Read-Write-Think:
Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Crime and Punishment
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: New Movements For Social Justice: The Latino Struggle
for Equal Rights (1950’s-1970’s)
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Multiculturalism and the Law
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: The Constitution and Criminal Justice
Learn NC: Justice for All? To
Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill
Learn NC: And justice for all:
The Trail of Tears, Mexican deportation, and Japanese internment
Learn NC: De facto vs. de jure
segregation
Poetry
Anzaldua, Gloria: How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Davis, Frank Marshall: Giles
Johnson, Ph.D.
Mirikitani, Janice: Breaking Silence
Mitsui, James: Destination:
Tule Lake Relocation Center, May 20, 1942
Okita, Dwight: In Response to Executive
Order 9006
Okubo, Mine: Holding Center, Tanforan Race Track Spring 1942
Walker, Margaret: For My People
Novels
Bambara, Toni Cade: The Salt
Eaters
Carlisle, Henry, and Carlisle, Olga Andreyev: The Idealists
Courteney,
Bryce: The Power of One
Dostoyevsky,
Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Faulkner, William: Light in August
Le Guin, Ursula: The Dispossessed
Melville,
Herman: Billy Budd
Steiner,
George: The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
Taylor, Mildred: Roll of
Thunder, Hear my Cry
Toomer,
Jean: Cane
Uchida, Yoshiko: The Invisible Friend
Wells-Barnett,
Ida B. Crusade for Justice
Wouk, Herman: The Caine Mutiny
Wright, Richard:
Native Son
Autobiographies
Black
Elk with John G. Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks
Mandela,
Nelson: Long Walk to Freedom
Moody, Anne: Coming of Age in Mississippi
Standing
Bear, Luther: My People, the Sioux
Nonfiction
Barbara
Ehrenreich and Deidre English: Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of
Sickness
King,
Martin Luther Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Thoreau,
Henry David: Civil Disobedience
Drama
Peckinpah, Sam: Noon Wine
Rose, Reginald: Twelve Angry Men
Shakespeare,
William: The Merchant of Venice
Song
Johnny Clegg
& Savuka: Bombs Away
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: Warsaw 1943
La Farge, Peter: As Long As the Grass Shall Grow
Games
Fair Division
Centipede Game
Justice
Stranglehold
Max Payne
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the definition of
justice? Where do the characters in the story get their concept of justice? Is
the behavior of the characters in the story just? Why or why not? What are the
difficulties involved in achieving justice? In what ways can punishment be justly
related to crime? What is the relationship between justice and mercy? What is
the source of one's concept of justice?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Follow the Leader by Mackenzie Stephan (OSU 2016)
Short Stories
Deal, Bordon: Antaeus
Guthrie, A. B.,
Jr.: Old Mother Hubbard
Novels
Bonham, Frank: Durango Street
Cormier,
Robert: The Chocolate War, After the First Death, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
Courteney,
Bryce: The Power of One
Forman, James: A Ceremony of Innocence
French,
Michael: The Throwing Season
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Hinton,
S. E.: The Outsiders; That Was Then, This Is Now; Rumble Fish
L'Engle, Madeleine:
A Ring of Endless Light
O'Brien, Robert: Z for Zachariah
Schaefer, Jack:
Shane
Stevenson,
Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Twain,
Mark: Tom Sawyer
Zindel, Paul: Harry and Hortense at Hormone High
Film
Dave
Hoosiers
Video Games
Halo Franchise
Online First-Person Shooter Games (e.g., Counterstrike, Call of Duty, Battlefield
Franchise)
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the qualities of
a leader? Why do others follow such a person? What type of leadership does the
leader offer? What is the leader's purpose? How is this character regarded by
the others in the story? How does the leader change during the story?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Exploring
Urban Adolescent Community Issues (FSU) by Allison Kibbey
Online Lesson Plans
Immigrants
and Urban Life Lesson Plans
Urban
Life Rural Life Lesson Plans
Urban Life
Designs
for Urban Life
City Life and
Country Life
National
Geographic: Cities on the Fringe
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Literary Perspectives of Growing Up: Coming of Age Tales by Michael Potts (OSU 2016)
"Nothing Gold Can Stay": Dealing With Trauma and Innocence Lost by Johannah (Hannah) Koehnen Eley (OSU 2016)
Writing
by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about innocence
Mythology
Pandora's
Box
Phaethon
Deirdre
and the Sons of Usna
The Bible
The
Creation and the Fall (Genesis 1 3)
Poetry
Cullen,
Countee: Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Childhood
Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
Roethke, Theodore: Dirty Dinky
Rossetti,
Christina: The Goblin Market
Stafford, William: In the Old Days, Time
Thomas, Dylan: Fern Hill
Short
Stories
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel: Egotism, Or the Bosom Serpent
Joyce,
James: Araby
Shaw, Irwin: Peter Two
Updike, John: You'll Never Know,
Dear, How Much I Love You
Warren, Robert Penn.: Blackberry Winter
Novels
Baldwin, James: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Carter, Forrest: The Education
of Little Tree
Gipson, Fred: Old Yeller
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel: The Marble Faun
Hunter, Kristin: God Bless the Child
Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
Rawlings, Marjorie: The Yearling
Salinger,
J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye
Sister Souljah: No Disrespect
Smith, Betty:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Soyinka, Wole: Ake. The Years of Childhood
Steinbeck, John: The Red Pony
Song
Barenaked
Ladies: Pinch Me
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: The Promise
Kathy
Mattea: The Innocent Years
Video Games
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Key Concepts and Problems
What is innocence?
In what ways is the character originally "innocent"? What causes the
"fall"? How is the character affected by the fall? Is the character
better off, or worse? Why? What has the character learned from this experience?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
The
Effects of Love: Thinking with your heart vs. Thinking with your head (FSU)
by Kathleen McPadden
Miscommunication:
Then and Now: A Pride and Prejudice Inspired Unit (FSU) by Hayley Miller
What
is Love; Baby, Don’t Hurt Me (FSU) by Tabitha Campbell
The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same: Finding Modern Meaning in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (2013) by Lisa Turner
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Poetry
Bums, Robert: A Red, Red Rose
Donne,
John: The Ecstasy
Graves,
Robert: Symptoms of Love
Herrick,
Robert: Delight in Disorder
Lowell,
Amy: The Taxi
Roethke,
Theodore: Elegy for Jane
Shakespeare,
William: Sonnets 18, 29
Shapiro, Karl: How Do I Love You?
Yeats,
William Butler: The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart
Short Stories
Hughes, Langston: A Good Job Done
Kerckhoff, Joan: Talk To Me, Talk To Me
O'Connor,
Flannery: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Novels
Austen,
Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Bronte,
Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte,
Emily: Wuthering Heights
du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
Faulkner, William:
Light in August
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
Joyce,
James: Ulysses
Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Love in the Time of Cholera
McCullers,
Carson: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Percy, Walker: The Second Coming,
The Moviegoer
Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
Walker, Alice: The Color
Purple
Woolf,
Virginia: Orlando
Drama
Chayefsky, Paddy: Marty
Shakespeare,
William: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo
and Juliet
Films
Brown Sugar
Out of Africa
Songs
LL
Cool J: I Need Love
Video Games
Super Mario Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the definition of romantic
love? What enables the lovers to become intimate with each other? How do the characters
in the story illustrate the definition of romantic love? How do they fall short
of the definition? Is there such thing as weak love, or can it only be strong?
How does a love relationship affect an individual? How do individuals in love
affect each other? How does romantic love develop?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on Bushido
Muslim
loyalty and belonging: does extremism have a future?
Humanity Quest
Loyalty Resources
Character Education
Links
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Conflicting
Loyalties in Romeo and Juliet (2011) by Sarah Chattin
Literary Perspectives of Growing Up: Coming of Age Tales by Michael Potts (OSU 2016)
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about betrayal
The Bible
Abraham
and Isaac (Genesis 22:1 19)
Cain
and Abel (Genesis 4:1 16)
The
Golden Calf (Exodus 32, 33:1 6)
Joseph
and His Brothers (Genesis 37:1 36)
Poetry
Brooks,
Gwendolyn: The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon
Masters,
Edgar Lee: The Village Atheist
Muir, Edwin: Moses
Nemerov,
Howard: Santa Claus
Prettyman, Quandra: When Mahalia Sings
Shapiro,
Karl: 151st Psalm
Spender,
Stephen: What I Expected
Yeats,
William Butler: The Second Coming
Short Stories
Babel, Isaac: Awakening
Baldwin, James: My Childhood
Chavez, Fray Angelico: Hunchback Madonna
Frame, Janet: The Reservoir
Haycox, Ernest: A Question of Blood
Hughes, Langston: Salvation
Mendoza, Durango: Summer Water and Shirley
O'Flaherty, Liam: The
Fairy Goose
Silko, Leslie Marmon: The Man to Send Rain Clouds
Swados,
Harvey: Claudine's Book
Novels
Anderson, M. T.: The Astonishing Life
of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party; The Astonishing
Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the
Waves
Gipson,
Fred: Old Yeller
Potok, Chaim: The Chosen, The Promise
Nonfiction
Pledge of Allegiance
Chief Joseph of the Nez
Perce: Speech of Surrender
King,
Martin Luther, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Lincoln,
Abraham: Gettysburg Address
Red
Jacket: An Indian Speaks
Thoreau,
Henry David: Civil Disobedience
Drama
Chayefsky, Paddy: Holiday
Song
Films
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Curse of the Golden
Flower
On the Waterfront
Songs
Barenaked
Ladies: Off the Hook
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: Warsaw 1943
Jamie O'Hara:
Cold Hard Truth
Video Games
Fable Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
What is loyalty? What are the
different kinds of loyalty? What causes someone to feel loyal? What forces can
compete with one's loyalty? How does one choose between being loyal or disloyal?
How does one judge someone who has acted disloyally?
NEURODIVERSITY & MENTAL HEALTH
Handy Links:
Stanford Summit on Neurodiversity, 2020 (Judith Singer at 8 hour mark)
California Lutheran University Autism and Communication Center
St Elsewhere:
Perspectives From Outside The Snow Globe
Wikipedia's
List of Mental Illness in Art and Literature
How Colleges Flunk Mental Health by Katie J. M. Baker (Newsweek)
Wikipedia's
List of people who have suffered from depression
Mental Illness
PS Links for Exceptional
Learners, Mental Health, and Students with Disabilities
Mental Health
3: Mental Health Through Literature
Linking
about: the Victorians and Mental Illness
A photographer & writer struggling
with mental illness
Talking
About mental illness: Teacher's resource
Bipolar Disorder
Perceptions of Mental
Illness
Erika’s List: YA Novels
That Include Mental Illness
Can
teen fiction explain mental illness to my daughter?
Can you call a 9-year-old a psychopath?
Using
Young Adult Fiction Literature to End Discrimination Against Mental Illness:
An Annotated Bibliography of Young Adult Literature about Anorexia, Drug and
Alcohol Abuse, Suicide and Other Mental Illness
Language and Symptoms of Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature
LitMed: Literature Arts Medicine Database
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Mental
Illness (2004) by Emily Lancaster & Christopher Warren
Speaking
Up: Alienation and Social Responsibility (2009) by Katie Crowell
Understanding
Holden: A unit for 11th grade students (2009) by Michael Nickolai
Who's
Cuckoo? A look into the stigma of mental illness in society (FSU) by Lauren
Niemeyer
“Life
Inside The Music Box”: Understanding Various Mental Abnormalities (FSU
2011) by Charise Kollar
I am Not a Robot: Stigmas and Stereotypes Regarding Mental Illness is Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar by Samantha Wood (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute:...By Reason of Insanity An Exploration of the Mental
Disease/Defect Defense
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about child abuse
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about depression
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about eating disorders
Teen
Ink writing by teens about health issues, including mental health
Novels:
Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Heller,
Joseph: Catch-22
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lee, Harper:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Martin, Ann M.: Rain Reign
Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye
Shusterman, Neal: Challenger Deep
Sonya Sones Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
Vizzini, Ned: Kind of a Funny Story
Robert Rozema: The Problem of Autism in Young Adult Fiction
Poems
A Good Day by Kait Rokowski
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
Be Like the Cactus by Kimii Nagata
Transit by Rita Dove
Alone by Maya Angelou
Enough Words? by Jalaluddin Rumi
Almost Like the Blues lyrics by Leonard Cohen
Finish Every Day by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide's Note by Langston Hughes
Suicide by Langston Hughes
Too Blue by Langston Hughes
Not Waving but Drowning", by Stevie Smith
https://genius.com/Sabrina-benaim-explaining-my-depression-to-my-mother-a-conversation-annotated
Edwin Arlington Robinson. "Richard Cory," "Children of the Night,"
Dorothy Parker "Resume"
Sylvia Plath's poetry
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/franz-wright
Emily Dickinson "It Was Not Death, for I stood up"?
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" by W. B. Yeats
Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde
The Fury of Overshoes by Anne Sexton
Sabrina Benaim - "Explaining My Depression to My Mother: A Conversation"
Neil Hilborn's "Joey"
8 Brave Poets Who've Put Mental Health in the Spotlight - The Mighty
Poetry, the creative process and mental illness - BBC News - BBC.com
Mental Health | Power Poetry
Mental Illness Poems - Poems about Mental Illness
19 Poems to Combat The Stigma Around Mental Health | Words ...
poetry | Mental Health America
Please Hear What I'm not Saying | Mental Health Poem | Counselling ...
Poet Neil Hilborn on how writing helped him cope with mental illness ...
Mental Health Support - Poetry
This Woman Is Using Poetry To End The Stigma Around Mental Health ...
Talking about mental health through spoken word poetry | Mind, the ...
Tom Greening poetry to change the mental health system — MFIPortal
Poetry Collections
Janet Heller: Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014)
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process.
Courage to Teach: Teaching with Fire
Play:
Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
Short Stories
Gilman, Charlotte
Perkins: The Yellow Wallpaper
Biography:
Nasar, Sylvia: A Beautiful Mind
Memoir
Cheney, T.: Manic: A Memoir
Cutler,
Eustacia: A Thorn in my Pocket: Temple Grandin's Mother tells the Family Story
Hornbacher, M.: Madness: A bipolar life.
Jamison, K. R.: An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness
Kaysen, Susanna: Girl, Interrupted
Mills, Bruce: The Archaeology of Yearning
Plath,
Sylvia: The Bell Jar
Page, Tim: Parallel Play: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Asperger's
Robison, John Elder: Look Me in the Eye, Raising Cubby, Be Different
Saks, E. R.: The center cannot hold: My journey through madness.
Solomon, Andrew: The noonday demon: An atlas of depression
Stossel, S.: My age of anxiety: Fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind.
Styron, W.: Darkness visible: A memoir of madness
Tammet, D.: Born on a blue day: Inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant.
Wurtzel, Elizabeth: Prozac Nation
Nasman, Camryn: The Girl Behind the Smitle: End the Stigma
Essay
The Writing Lives of Students with Learning Disabilities: How 21st Century Tools Change Perspectives by April Whitehurst, Amy Vetter, Annamary Consalvo, Ann David, Alison Hruby, Katrina Jansky, and Marie LeJeune
Why Autism Makes the Outdoors More Beautiful�and Complicated by Alysa Joaquin
Fry, Stephen: Only the Lonely
Smagorinsky, Peter: Taking the diss out of disability.
Smagorinsky, P. (2016, October 5). A brief guide to neurodiversity. The Committed Project.
Smagorinsky, P. (2016, August 2016). Foregrounding potential, not disorder, in neurodiverse students. Literacy & NCTE.
Smagorinsky, P. (2016, July 9). Is mental health strictly mental? Psychology Today.
Smagorinsky, P. (2016, June 30). Schools ought to produce good citizens as well as good students. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Smagorinsky, P. (2016, May 27). University of Georgia professor explains his ‘Asperger’s Advantage’ and disabling assumption of disorder. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Film
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Take Shelter
Rain Man
Adam
Mary and Max
Harvey
Lars and the Real Girl
Dirty Filthy Love
The Informant!
Silver Linings Playbook
Temple Grandin
Autodocumentary Film
Fry, Stephen: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
Television programs
24 (Chloe O'Brian, autism spectrum; Brady Hauser, autism spectrum)
All My Children (Lily Montgomery, autism spectrum)
Bones (Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan & Zack Addy, Asperger's
syndrome)
Boston Legal (Jerry Espenson, Asperger's syndrome)
Criminal Minds (Dr. Spencer Reid, Asperger's syndrome)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Gil Grissom, possibly autism spectrum)
Eureka (Kevin Stark, Autism)
Heroes (Matt Parkman, dyslexia and learning differences)
House (Dr. Gregory House, possibly autism spectrum)
Law and Order: Criminal Intent (Bobby Goren, possibly Asperger's syndrome)
Monk (Adrian Monk, obsessive-compulsive tendencies; Monk's brother, Asperger's
syndrome)
Numb3rs (Charlie Eppes, Asperger's syndrome)
ReGenesis (Dr. Bob Melnikov, Asperger's syndrome)
The Shield (Mackey Children, Autism)
Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill, Aserger's Syndrome)
Songs:
Barenaked
Ladies: Brian Wilson
Barenaked
Ladies: War on Drugs
I'm Not My Father's Son lyrics from the Broadway show Kinky Boots
Graphic Novels/Manga:
Tobe, Keiko: With the
Light
Video Games
American McGee's
Alice
Depressed and Anxious? These Video Games Want to Help
Podcasts & Talks
Undiagnosed
Aspergers Leads To Life As An Outsider
Asperger Love
Ted Talk: The Forgotten History of Autism
Images of Mental Illness and Mental Health
Key Concepts and Problems:
What is mental health? What is
mental illness? How do you draw the line between the two? How are people with
mental illness treated in society? How should they be treated?
Handy links:
The New Kid on the Block (Simpsons
episode)
Novels
Blume, Judy: Tiger Eyes
Carter, Alden: Growing Season
Cleaver, Vera: Where the Lilies Bloom
Guy, Rosa: New Guys Around the Block
Kerr, M. E.: Him She Loves?
Myers, Walter Dean: The Outside Shot
Video Games
Grand Theft Auto Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
What is different
about the newcomer? How is this character received by the others? How does the
character respond to this reception? How does the character adapt to the new environment?
How does the character change during the story? Is this positive or negative?
Why?
Mythology
Sisyphus
Poetry
Arnold,
Matthew: Dover Beach
Blake,
William: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Bronte,
Emily: Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Frost
at Midnight, The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Eliot, T. S.: The
Wasteland, The Hollow Men
Hardy, Thomas: The Man He Killed
Pope, Alexander: An Essay
on Man
Shelley, Percy
Bysshe: Ode to the West Wind
Tennyson,
Alfred: Ulysses
Wordsworth, William: The World Is Too Much with Us, Tintern Abbey, It Is a Beauteous
Evening
Yeats,
William Butler: Sailing to Byzantium
Novels
Camus, Albert: The
Stranger
Conrad,
Joseph: Lord Jim
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime
and Punishment, Notes from the
Underground
Gascar, Pierre: The Season of the Dead
Mann, Thomas:
The Magic Mountain
Voltaire:
Candide
Drama
Beckett,
Samuel: Waiting for Godot
O'Neill,
Eugene: The Hairy Ape
Simpson, N.F.: One Way Pendulum
Sartre,
Jean Paul: No Exit
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth, Hamlet
Film
Throne of Blood
Scotland, Pa.
Songs
Game
and Fifty Cent: Hate it or Love it
Images of Optimism and Pessimism
Key
Concepts and Problems
Is the piece optimistic, pessimistic, or neutral in
outlook? What clues tell you what the outlook is? Do you agree with the author's
vision? Why or who not? What evidence do you see in the real world that either
supports or refutes the author's vision? What facts and conditions contribute
to one's evaluation of experience? To what extent do such attitudes come from
the way the world is? To what extent do they come from a person's temperament?
Handy links:
Wikipedia entry on the Outcast
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Stargirl
(2009) by Mark. A. Richardson
Our
“Civilized” Society: A 4-Week Unit Plan Designed for the Study of
The Scarlet Letter (FSU 2011) by Misty Lynn Foster
On
the Outside Looking In (2012) by Kate Reynolds
Identifying "The Other" in Literature and Society by Kathryn McKinney (OSU 2016)
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about conformity
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about fitting in
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about outsiders
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about peer pressure
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about popularity
Teen Ink writing by teens
about fitting in and being different
Poetry
Hughes,
Langston: Brass Spittoons
Robinson,
Edwin Arlington: Mr. Flood's Party
Rosenberg,
Isaac: The Jew
Sassoon,
Siegfried: Does It Matter?
Thomas,
Dylan: The Hunchback in the Park
Short Stories
Capote, Truman:
Jug of Silver
Gallico, Paul: The Snow Goose
Gorky,
Maxim: Her Lover
Harte,
Bret: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Laurence, Margaret: The Half Husky
Matheson, Richard: Born
of Man and Woman
Munro, Alice: Red Dress, Day of the Butterfly
Parker,
Dorothy: Clothe the Naked
Peretz, I. L.: The Outcast
Rovere, Richard:
Wallace
Singer,
Isaac Bashevis: Gimpel the Fool
Novels
Dickens, Charles: Great
Expectations, David
Copperfield
Field, Rachel: Hepatica Hawns
Petry, Ann: The Street
Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and
Men
Autobiographies
Wright, Richard: Black Boy
Drama
Brecht,
Bertolt: Galileo
Rose, Reginald: Thunder on Sycamore Street
Williams,
Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie
Films
Pretty in Pink
Valley
Girl
Songs
Ludacris and Mary J Blige:
Runaway Love
Video Games
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Trilogy
Key Concepts and Problems
In what ways is the outcast
different from society? Why does society reject this character? To what extent
does the character reject himself or herself? How does the character feel about
rejection? How does the character try to resolve this rejection?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Complicating
Patriotism (2012) by Ryan Brasuel
Handy Links:
Science and Technology:
Catalysts for Change in Society
Relationship
of Atomic America to Native America
Sifting
Through the Ashes: A Multi-Media Inquiry into the People and Events That Led to
the Development Of Atomic America
Cultural
Perspectives on the Environment in Selected 20th Century Poems
What
are Progressive Values?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Responsibility of the Creator to his Creation (2001)
by Sarah Mann
Technology
and Progress (2002) by Tara Cooney
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions
Read-Write-Think:
Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention
Read-Write-Think:
Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion
Writing
by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about technology
Short Stories
Faulkner, William:
The Bear, Delta Autumn
Novels
Bellow, Saul: Henderson the Rain King
Berger, Thomas: Little Big Man
Courteney, Bryce: The Power of One
Crichton, Michael: Jurassic Park
Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion
Kosinski, Jerzy: Being There
Le Guin, Ursula: The Word for World Is Forest
Markandaya, Kamala: Nectar in a Sieve
Momaday, N. Scott: The Way to Rainy Mountain
Sinclair,
Upton: The Jungle
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.: Slaughterhouse Five
Wells, H. G.:
The Time Machine
Wolf, Adolf: Legends Told by the Old People
Nonfiction
Mailer, Norman: Of a Fire on
the Moon
Thoreau, Henry
David: Walden
Films
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Water (Deepa Mehta, Dir.)
Documentary Films
Transcendent Man
Songs
10,000
Maniacs: Poison in the Well
Alvin,
David: Dry River
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: Inevitable Consequence of Progress
Gaye,
Marvin: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Midnight
Oil: Warakurna
Mitchell, Joni: Big
Yellow Taxi, This
Place
Parliament:
Chocolate City
Prine,
John: Paradise
Young,
Neil: Be the Rain
Video Games
Deus Ex
Enter the Matrix
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the definition of
progress? Consider progress in terms of (a) technology, (b) the human spirit,
(c) the expansion of "civilization," and (d) the evolution of the human
intellect. Do the behavior and events of the story represent progress? Why or
why not? What is the author's attitude towards progress? Do you agree?
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BRITISH LITERARY CHARACTERS: CHAUCER TO THE MODERNS
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat
Poetry
and Prose (Listed Chronologically)
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
Chaucer,
Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
Malory,
Sir Thomas: Le Morte d'Arthur
Spenser,
Edmund: The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare,
William: Hamlet
Milton,
John: Paradise Lost
Austen,
Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Byron,
George Gordon: Don Juan
Shelley,
Mary: Frankenstein
Bronte,
Emily: Wuthering Heights
Dickens,
Charles: David Copperfield
Hardy,
Thomas: Jude, the Obscure
Shaw,
George Bernard: Arms and the Man
Eliot,
T. S.: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Conrad,
Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Woolf,
Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Key Concepts and Problems
How is the
psychology of the characters influenced by the attitudes of the times in which
they were written? How does the psychology of these characters change over time?
What is responsible for these changes? What is the same about the characters over
time? What conclusions can we draw about human nature, based on our study of these
characters?
Handy links:
Fire
and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
Puritan
History: Past, Present, and Future
The
Puritan Ethic
Wikipedia
Entry on the Protestant Work Ethic
The
American Spirit in Literature: The Third and Fourth Generation
Elementary
Texts
McGuffey's
Reader
The New England
Primer
Poetry
Bradstreet,
Anne: To My Dear and Loving Husband
Taylor,
Edward: Meditation Six
Short Stories
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The
Minister's Black Veil, Young
Goodman Brown
Twain, Mark: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Novels
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Twain,
Mark: The Mysterious Stranger
Nonfiction
Edwards,
Jonathan: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Mather,
Cotton: Essays to Do Good
Drama
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the central
beliefs of the Puritans? What are the characteristics of the Puritan ethic? What
historical factors contributed to the development of these principles? How was
life for the Puritans different from life today? How was it similar to life today?
Why did Puritanism die in America? To what extent does the Puritan ethic survive
in America today?
Poetry
Percy
Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
Novels
McLaughlin, Emma, & Kraus,
Nicola: The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
Walker, Claudette: Currents of Power: A
Modern Political Novel (Paperback)
Weisberger, Lauren: The Devil Wears Prada
Drama
Shakespeare,
William: Macbeth, King Lear, Julius Caesar
Film
Heathers
Election
Wall Street
The Devil Wears Prada
Video Games
Grand Theft Auto Franchise
Zelda Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
Why do people seek
power? What do they gain and lose by questing after power? What effect do they
have on others through their quest for power? How do characters from history,
literature, and the arts illuminate current issues pertaining to power struggles?
Handy Links
What we regret most....any why
Quotes about regret
Regret Quotes
No Regrets: Contemporary Poets on the Theme of Regret edited by Martha Manno
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Literary Perspectives of Growing Up: Coming of Age Tales by Michael Potts (OSU 2016)
Novels
Bakopoulos, Dean : Please Don t Come Back from the Moon
Bell, Thomas: Out of this Furnace
Di Donato, Pietro : Christ in Concrete
Hassler, Jon: Grand Opening
Hossieni, Khaled: The Kite Runner
Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
Lee, Harper: To Kill A Mockingbird
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
Myers, Walter Dean: Monster
Petry, Ann: The Street
Petterson, Pet: Out Stealing Horses
Rawlings, Margaret Kinnan: The Yearling
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath
Short Stories
Anderson, Sherwood: I'm a Fool; Stolen Day; The Triumph of the Egg
Callaghan, Morley: All the Years of Her Life
Chopin, Kate: Regret
Collier, Eugenia: Marigolds
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Jelly-Bean; Babylon Revisited
Hemingway, Ernest: Soldier's Home, Hills like White Elephants
Joyce, James: Araby
Kafka, Franz: Before the Law
King, Stephen: The Last Rung on the Ladder
Melville, Herman: Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Qi, Loh Wei: A Lifelong Regret
Rylant, Cynthia: Checkouts
Updike, John: A&P
Poetry
Bronte, Charlotte: Regret
Clifton, Lucille: Miss Rosie
cummings, e. e.: Nobody loses all the time
Gunawardana, Dilantha: Kites of passage
Lee, Li-Young: A Story
Masters, Edgar Lee: Spoon River Anthology
Olds, Sharon: I Go Back to May 1937
Robinson, Edgar Allen: Miniver Cheevy
Rumi: Who are We in this Complicated World?
Shukur, Abu: A Tree with a Bitter Seed
Snyder, Gary: Hay for the Horses
Stafford, William: Traveling through the Dark
Thomas, Dylan: Fern Hill
Regret in poetry
Drama
Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
Shakespeare, William: The Tragedy of Marc Antony and Cleopatra
Nonfiction
Gawande, Atul: Failure and Rescue
Krakauer, Jon: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Song
Kinky Boots: I am Not My Father's Son
Mumford and Sons: Dust Bowl Dance
Simon and Garfunkle: The Boxer
Handy
links:
Courage
and Responsibility: The American Civil War
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Personal
Responsibility (1999) by Tommy Behr, Jamie Reece, and Angie Watkins
America at
War with Itself: Social versus Personal Responsibility (2007) by Caitlin George
Do I
Dare Disturb the Universe? Social Structures, Choices, and Consequences (2008)
by Brande Ledford
Online Lesson Plans
Learn
NC: Is No Man An Island?
National
Geographic: Would You Have Helped Out?
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about responsibility
Novels
Cather,
Willa: My Antonia
Kerr M. E.: Gentlehands
Milkowicz, Gloria: The
Day the Senior Class Got Married
Newton, Suzanne: I Will Call It Georgie's
Blues
Southerland, Ellease: Let the Lion Eat Straw
Stone, Bruce: Half
Nelson, Full Nelson
Sweeney, Joyce: Center Line
Zindel, Paul: The Pigman
Drama
Rose, Reginald: Thunder on Sycamore Street
Video Games
Zelda Franchise
Prince of Persia (2008)
Key Concepts and Problems
What value systems are
the characters being influenced by? How strenuously are the value systems being
imposed? From where do the characters derive their sense of responsibility? What
forces are testing this sense? How do the characters respond to these forces?
How is the conflict resolved? What is the author trying to say about value systems
and responsibility in particular? Distinguish among duty, obligation, expectation,
responsibility, and promise.
Handy links:
Wikipedia
entry on Rite of Passage
Rituals
and Rites of Passage
Young
Adult Literature: Rite of Passage or Rite of Its Own
Rites
of Passage?
Rites of Passage
across Cultures and within American Subcultures
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about beginnings
Mythology
Irish: The Prince
of the Lonesome Isle, The Lade of Tubber Tintye
Navajo:
Twin Warriors
Greek: Actaeon, Phaethon and Phoebus, Psyche and Cupid
Sumerian:
Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld
The Bible
Story
of Job (Job 1 42)
Poetry
Gunn,
Thom: Black Jackets
Parker,
Dorothy: Indian Summer
Thomas,
Dylan: Poem in October
Short Stories
Clinton, Michelle T.: Humiliation
of the Boy
Cohoe, Grey:
The Promised Visit
Fox,
Robert: A Fable
Meckel, Christo: The Lion
Silko, Leslie Marmon:
Tony's Story
Steinbeck,
John: Flight
Wallace, Karen: Mary
Novels
Dickens,
Charles: Oliver Twist
Elfman, Blossom: First Love Lives Forever
Gibbons, Kaye: Ellen Foster
Momaday, N. Scott: House Made of Dawn, The Ancient
Child
Mourning Dove: Cogewea: The Half-Blood
Panshin, Alexi: Rite of Passage
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Stine, Robert L.: Twisted
Welch, James:
Winter in the Blood
Nonfiction
Sheehy, Gail: Passages
Video Games
Grand Theft Auto Franchise
Images
of Rites of Passage
Key Concepts and Problems
What is initiation/rite
of passage? What actually changes as the result of an initiation or rite of passage?
What is the character initiated into? What state is the character leaving? Could
the character have made the same transformation without the rite of passage? Why
or why not? How does the character change during the story?
Handy Links
The
Theme Of Secrets In Asian-American Literature
Deception
in Literature
The Psychology of Self-Deception
as Illustrated in Literary Characters
Deception
in Literature
Poems
Agee, James: No Doubt Left . . .
Blake, William: A Poison
Tree
Booth, Philip:
Was a Man
Browning,
Robert: My Last Duchess
Cameron,
Norman: The Compassionate Fool
Collins,
Billy: Embrace
Dickinson, Emily:
I cannot live with you
Donne, John:
The Flea
Fearing, Kenneth: Dirge
Gibson, Walker: Advice to Travelers
Gioia, Dana: Unsaid
Hardy, Thomas: Satires
of Circumstance
Kunitz, Stanley: The
Portrait
Martial (translated by J.V. Cunningham)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington: Richard
Cory; How Annandale Went Out
Sexton,
Anne: For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
Stafford, William: A Ritual
to Read to Each Other; Any Morning
Stokesbury, Leon: Evenings End
Wilson, Keith: Growing Up
Songs
Favorite
Song About Deception...
Songs about Deception
Guardian's
Recommended Songs about Deception 1
Guardian's
Recommended Songs about Deception 2
Songs
about Women who are Deceptive, Dangerous, or Evil
Songs
about Liars, Lies, and Deception
Songs about Secrets
Songs
about Secrets
Guardian's
Recommended Songs about Secrets
Songs
about Secrets
Handy
links:
Self-Reliance
Essays
on Self Reliance Walden Transcendentalism
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Going Against
the Grain to Find Your Identity: A Seven Week Conceptual Unit on Huckleberry
Finn (2001) by Margaret Robbins
Voice, Power,
Identity: Guide to Choosing a Path and a Place (2002) by Heather Ely
Identity:
Coming to Know One's Self through Literature (2002) by Shawn Pate
Detail
and Voice: A Five-Week Unit on Fleshing Out One's Own Voice in Writing (2002)
by Leah N. Franklin
The
Exploration of Self within Society (2002) by Holly Frilot and Aleigh Tubiak
The Importance
of Seeking Knowledge (2002) by Stephen Lindsay
Freedom
and Identity (2002) by Mandy Brown, Meghann Hummel, Sarah Mann, Jason Taylor,
and Beth Wright
Individual
Liberty (2003) by Teresa McDaniel
A
Sense of Self (2003) by Jennifer Feldman, Melissa Lynn, & Amy Winter
I
Sing Myself (2003) by Jennifer Astrin, Sarah Fletcher, Ross Gericke, Paul Filush
Identity:
How We See Ourselves and Others (2004) by Lara Sniffin
I Will Speak
Up! For Myself, For My Friends, and For What I Believe In! (2005) by Allison
Estey
Who am I?
A Unit of Self-Discovery through Literature (2007) by Tara Stuart
Writing
by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about identity
Concord
Review writing by teens: Emerson Prize Winners
Teen
Voices Online: Self-Awareness
Poetry
Auden,
W. H.: The Unknown Citizen
Dickey, James: The Bee
Dickinson, Emily: The Soul selects her own Society, There is a solitude of space
Frost, Robert: Into My Own, The
Silken Tent, The Road Not Taken, Desert Places
Moore,
Marianne: The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
Nemerov, Howard: Life Cycle
and the Common Man
Reid, Alistair: Curiosity,
Propinquity
Swenson, May: The Pure Suit of Happiness
Taggard,
Genevieve: The Enamel Girl
Whitman, Walt: Song
of Myself, A Noiseless Patient
Spider
Wordsworth,
William: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
Short Stories
Melville, Herman: Bartleby the Scrivener, The
Piazza
Novels
Baldwin, James: Nobody Knows My Name
Gibbons,
Kaye: Ellen Foster
Melville,
Herman: Moby Dick
Twain,
Mark: Huckleberry Finn
Nonfiction (Essays)
Emerson,
Ralph Waldo: Self Reliance
Thoreau,
Henry David: Civil Disobedience
Drama
Lawrence,
Jerome, & Lee, Robert E.: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Films
Cool Hand Luke
The Lost Weekend
On the Waterfront
Video Games
Zelda Franchise
Metal Gear Solid Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
What is self reliance?
To what extent should an individual interact with and be influenced by society?
What distinguishes self reliance, anarchy, alienation, and self centeredness?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of self reliance? Do you agree with
the author's viewpoint? Compare the basis of authority of the self to the basis
of authority of society. How does a self reliant attitude influence one's behavior
in relationships?
Handy Links
Taking stock of the developmental literature on shame by Rosemary S.L. Mills
Goodreads Quotes about Shame
Shame, Guilt, and Mental Health Problems by Joanna Nowill
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women's Writings
By J. Brooks Bouson
"You Are Special": Shame and Grace in Children ' s Literature by Joy Mauldin, Jesse Lough, Nancy S. Thurston
Transgressive Treats: Food and Shame in Children’s Literature by Ella Bucknall
Novels
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
Shame by Salman Rushdie
What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler
What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson
Touch by Francine Prose
Short Stories
A Short Tale of Shame by Angel Igov
Handy links:
Wikipedia
entry on Social Responsibility
Educating
for Personal and Social Responsibility: A Review of the Literature
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Educational
Issues as a Medium through Which We Educate (2004) by Dana Buxton & Paul
Kramer
America at War with Itself: Social versus Personal
Responsibility (2007) by Caitlin George
I
always feel like, somebody’s watching me…Teaching 1984 and the power
of government (FSU) by Sarah Brown
If
we won’t, who will? A unit about social responsibility (FSU 2011) by Juan
Cruz Mendizabal
Individuality v. Sense of Community: A 7th Grade English/Language Arts Unit (2013) by Patrick Yawn
Walking in Someone Else's Shoes by Alexandria Akins (OSU 2016)
‘The Individual and the Cultural Environment’ Conceptual Unit Featuring
The Awakening by Jenna Kober
Online Lesson Plans
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Photojournalists for Social Change
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Teaching Responsibility to Children in Different Cultures
through Film and Literature Stories
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about social commentary
Poetry
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor: Work Without Hope
cummings,
e. e.: i sing of Olaf, glad and big
Durem, Ray: Award
Hughes,
Langston: I, Too, Sing America
Overstreet, Bonaro W.: John Doe, Jr.
Patchen,
Kenneth: Nice Day for a Lynching
Short Stories
Bennett, Hal: Dotson
Gerber Resurrected
Camus, Albert: The Adulterous Woman
Cheever, John:
The Swimmer
Crane,
Stephen: The Open Boat
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Oates, Joyce Carol: Saul Bird Says:
Relate! Communicate! Liberate!
Wright, Richard: The Man Who Saw the Flood
Novels
Faulkner, William: Intruder in the Dust
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph: Catch 22
Orwell,
George: 1984
Parks, Gordon: A Choice of Weapons
Porter, Katherine
Anne: Ship of Fools
Sinclair,
Upton: The Jungle
Stein, Gertrude:
Three Lives
West, Rebecca: The Thinking Reed
Nonfiction
Emerson,
Ralph Waldo: The American Scholar
Thoreau,
Henry David: Walden
Drama
Arrabal, Fernando: Picnic on the Battlefield
Lawrence,
Jerome, & Lee, Robert E.: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Miller,
Arthur: A View from the Bridge
Shaw,
George Bernard: Major Barbara
Song
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: One (Hu)man, One Vote
Games
Stag Hunt
Coordination Game
Diner's Dilemma
Volunteer's Dilemma
Video Games
Prince of Persia Franchise
Images of Social Responsibility
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the individual's
relationship to society? What types of obligations (moral, legal, etc.) does a
citizen have to society? How do we fulfill these obligations? What happens if
we do not? What must we sacrifice for the greater good? How do we lose from this
sacrifice? How do we gain?
Handy Links
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration
EMedicine
Health: Substance Abuse
Drug
Abuse and Addiction
National Institutes of Health:
National Institute on Drug Abuse
What is Substance
Abuse?
Georgia Council on Substance Abuse
Substance Abuse Theme
Page
Ocean Breeze Recovery - Drug Rehab
Periodic Table of Drugs
Measuring The Addiction Epidemic In Real-time
Harm Reduction Guide
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
“Don’t
Do Drugs” 9th grade by Katie D'Sousa
Online Lesson Plans
Substance
Abuse Lesson Plans
Deadly
Highs: Substance Abuse
Drug Abuse
Lesson Plan
Lesson
Plan for Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Lesson
Corner: Substance Abuse
Lesson
Plan Central: Substance Abuse
Handy
links:
Success
Classics
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Greed (2004)
by Emily Robinson
Setting
Goals and Making Choices Based on Definitions of Personal Success (FSU 2011)
by Iris Moore
Perceptions
of Success and The American Dream: How Culture Influences Our Beliefs (2012)
by Ted Davis
The Great Gatsby: Finding the Past in the Present (2013) by
Tiffany Chu
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future
Read-Write-Think:
A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher in Your Life
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about greed
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about money
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about success
Poetry
W.H.
Auden: The Unknown Citizen
Victor Contoski: Money
Emily
Dickinson: Success is Counted Sweetest
Robert
Frost: The Road Not Taken
Edwin
Arlington Robinson: Richard Cory
Charles Shagoury: Schizophrenia on Madison
Avenue
Percy
Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
Short Story
Willa
Cather: The Sculptor's Funeral
Ernest
Hemingway: The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber
James
Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Novel
Horatio
Alger: Struggling Upward, or, Luke Larkin's Luck
Rudolfo Anaya: Bless
Me, Ultima
Charles
Dickens: Great Expectations
F.
Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Aimee E. Liu: Face (Face)
James
V. Marshall: Walkabout
Ann Lane Petry: The Street
H. G. Wells: The
Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time
Machine
Oscar
Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tom Wolf: Bonfire of the Vanities
Play
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Rod Serling: Requiem for a Heavyweight
William
Shakespeare: MacBeth
August Wilson: The Piano Lesson
Film
Admission
Clockers
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Fearless
Forrest Gump
Good Will Hunting
The Great Debaters
His Girl Friday
Hollywood Shuffle
It's a Wonderful Life
La Bamba
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Primary Colors
You Can't Take It With You
Throne of Blood
Scotland, Pa.
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Documentary Film
The Parking Lot Movie
Graphic
Novels/Manga
Vance, James and Burr, Dan, Kings in Disguise
Essay
Harry Boyte: Higher Education and Rising Inequality
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Conduct
of Life
Song
Brooks,
Garth: Against the Grain
Burton, Michael: Night
Rider's Lament
Eminem: Lose Yourself
Madonna:
Material Girl
Mitchell, Joni: Free Man in Paris
Media
Jon
Stewart interview with Chris Matthews
TV shows
Mad Men
Games
Cournot Game
Dollar Auction
Pirate Game
Screening Game
Signaling Game
Traveler's Dilemma
War of Attrition
Ultimatum Game
Key Concepts and Problems
What values of a society
help to determine what counts as success? Can success according to one criterion
affect success according to another? If success is defined according to the acquisition
of power and money, what are possible consequences for both the successful person
and for others? Do different social and cultural groups define success in different
ways? How can individual people develop systems of belief and codes of conduct
that enable them to consider themselves to be a success?
Handy
Links
Wikipedia
entry on Point of View (Literature)
Critical
Literacy: Point of View
Smith,
M. W. (1991). Understanding Unreliable Narrators. Urbana, IL: National
Council of Teachers of English.
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Multicultural
Literature (1999) by Mary Catherine Begnaud and Lee Evans
Reading a Work
through the Lens of the Author (2006) by Peggy Wang
Differing
Perspectives (2007) by Michael Williams
Perception
versus Reality: And the greatness of Gatsby (2009) by Sunny Vidrine
Framing
Narrative Perspectives: Looking at Narration in the Works of Virginia Woolf
(2011) by Sarah Heim
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narrative
Read-Write-Think:
Book Report Alternative: A Character’s Letter to the Editor
Read-Write-Think:
Critical Literacy: Point of View
Read-Write-Think:
Promoting Diversity in the Classroom and School
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: A Moment in Time: Teaching Point of View Using Photography
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The News Media’s Coverage of the Vietnam War
Learn NC: Is Mr. Wolf Really
a Bad Guy?
Learn NC: School
Uniforms: Point of View Writing
Learn
NC: Teaching Point of View
Learn
NC: George Washington and Frederick Douglass letters: Recognizing point of view
and bias
Learn NC: Paired
Writing: Hoover and FDR
Learn
NC: Two perspectives on slavery: A comparison of personal narratives
National
Geographic: Points of View in the News
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: Burying Addie's
Voice
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: Crossing the River
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Perspective on the Slave Narrative
Novels
Anderson,
M. T.: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1:
The Pox Party; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation,
Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves
Duff, Gerald: Playing Custer
Film
Katrina's Children
Student Writing
https://narratio.org/
Key Concepts and Problems
What perspective does a narrator's
point of view provide on the story being told? What is missing? How might the
story be told by a different narrator? To what extent is the narrator speaking
from the perspective of the author? How reliable is the author's version of the
story? What can you learn when reading works written by authors from outside your
own cultural framework?
TECHNOLOGY, NATURE, AND SOCIETY
Handy links:
The Role
of Technology
Themes in Nadia
Literature, Science, and
Technology: The Wonders of the World
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
What
it Means to be Human (2010) by Christopher Jones
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Responsibility of the Creator to his Creation (2001)
by Sarah Mann
Technology
and Progress (2002) by Tara Cooney
The Risks and Rewards of Science by Heather Ross (OSU 2016)
Man vs. Wild: Morality in the Wilderness by Lauren Nelson (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Paying Attention to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology
Read-Write-Think:
Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology
Read-Write-Think:
Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Human-Environment Relations: International Perspectives
from History, Science, Politics, and Ethics
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Electronics in the 20th Century: Nature, Technology,
People, Companies, and the Marketplace
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about technology
Poetry
Blake, William: London, The
Chimney Sweep
Hobson, Geary: Buffalo Poem #1
Wordsworth,
William: The World Is Too Much with Us
Short Stories
Asimov, Isaac: The Last Question
Bradbury, Ray: The Veldt, August, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains
Bruchac, Joseph:
Bears
Forster, E. M.: The Machine Stops
Lem, Stanislaw: Trurl's Machine
London, Jack: To
Build a Fire
Szilard, Leo: Voice of the Dolphins
Updike, John: The
Music School
Novels
Christoper, John: The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, The Pool of Fire
Dickens, Charles: David
Copperfield, Oliver
Twist
Eggers, Dave: The Circle
Farmer, Nancy: The House of the Scorpion
Ing, Dean: Systemic Shock
Norris,
Frank: The Octopus
Orwell,
George: 1984
Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
Reece, Erik: Lost Mountain
Sinclair,
Upton: The Jungle
Smith, Martin Cruz: Stallion Gate
Steinbeck, John:
The Grapes of Wrath
Verne, Jules: Paris in the Twentieth Century
Nonfiction
Burke, James: Connections
Emerson,
Ralph Waldo: Nature
Mailer, Norman: Of a Fire on the Moon
Thoreau,
Henry David: Walden
Unabomber Manifesto
Wolfe, Tom: The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline
Baby
Music
Clegg,
Johnny: Into the Picture
Clegg,
Johnny: Brave New World
Clegg,
Johnny: New World Survivor
Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity, Corner of the Earth
Films
Continental Divide
The Stepford
Wives
Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
Robocop
Children's Literature
Dr. Seuss: The Lorax
Wild, Margaret: Woolvs in the Sitee
Video
A Day Made of Glass by Corning
Architecture by the people, for the people
Video Games
Deus Ex
Images of Technology, Nature, and Society
Key
Concepts and Problems
Does human nature change depending on whether the environment
is dominated more by nature than by machine? How do machines affect the ways in
which people live? How does the natural world affect the ways in which people
live? When nature comes into conflict with technology, which one triumphs? Why?
Is technological change positive, negative, or neutral? Why?
Handy
Links
Wikipedia entry on
Guy Fawkes
Wikipedia
entry on John Brown
Wikipedia
entry on the Boston Tea Party
Violence
and Harassment at U.S. Abortion Clinics
Wikipedia
entry on Michael Collins
Wikipedia
entry on Che Guevara
Wikipedia
entry on Tom Barry
Encyclopedia
Britannica entry on Sinn Féin
Wikipedia
entry on Al Qaeda
Wikipedia
entry on the Chicago Seven
Wikipedia
entry on Nat Turner
Wikipedia
entry on Race Riots
The Origins
of May First: Haymarket 1886 and the "Troublesome Element"
Wikipedia
entry on the October (Bolshevik) Rebellion
Wikipedia
entry on the Reign of Terror (French Revolution)
Wikipedia
entry on FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberaci�n Nacional (Venezuela))
Wikipedia
entry on FARC (The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s
Army)
Wikipedia
entry on Domestic Terrorism in the US
Memorial
Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Southern
Poverty Law Center
Wikipedia
entry on Militia Movement (United States)
Wikipedia
entry on the James-Younger Gang
Wikipedia
entry on Guerrilla Warfare
The
Haitian Revolution
Wikipedia
entry on Nelson Mandela
Wikipedia
entry on Menachem Begin
Wikipedia
entry on Steven Biko
Wikipedia
entry on the Soweto Uprising
Wikipedia
entry on the Earth Liberation Front
Wikipedia
entry on Ergenekon
Zealots and Sicarii
Fiction
Khalifeh, Sahar: Wild Thorns
Shaara,
Jeff: Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution
Memoir
Collins,
Michael: A Path to Freedom
Turner,
Nat: The Confessions of Nat Turner
Nonfiction
Gellhorn,
Martha: Justice at Night
Thoreau,
Henry David: Plea for Captain John Brown
Unabomber Manifesto
Drama
Corrie,
Rachel (Edited by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman): My Name Is Rachel Corrie
Film
Michael Collins
V for Vendetta
Connolly
The Battle of Algiers
The Weather Underground
Leila Khaled, Hijacker
Shooter
Graphic Novels/Manga
Moore, Alan, & Lloyd, David:
V for Vendetta
Nakazawa, Keiji: Barefoot Gen
Sacco, Joe: Palestine
Images of Terrorism and Freedom Fighters
Key Concepts and Problems
Through what actions can one
be considered a terrorist? Through what actions can one be considered a freedom
fighter? What defines a terrorist, and what defines a freedom fighter?Is it possible
to be a terrorist from one perspective and freedom fighter from another? Do the
ends justify the means when freedom is an issue? In what ways do characters and
action from fiction, film, and other texts illuminate important issues in today's
world?
Handy links:
Wikipedia entries on Utopias and Dystopias
Anti-Utopia
The
Possibility of Utopia
Utopian
Literature: A Selective Bibliography
Utopia
& Dystopia
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
A
Perfect World? (2005) by Jennifer Brown, Lindsey Giddens Stewart, & Jennifer
Watson
Utopias
and Dystopias (2009) by Elizabeth Jasperse
The Individual,
The Society, and The Future (2009) by Katie Davis
Building
Up and Breaking Down the Utopia in Dystopian Post Apocalyptic Texts (FSU) by
Thomas DeCeglie
Individuality v. Sense of Community: A 7th Grade English/Language Arts Unit (2013) by Patrick Yawn
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Blogtopia: Blogging about Your Own Utopia
Read-Write-Think:
Decoding The Matrix: Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Read-Write-Think:
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh’s “1984” Commercial
Short
Stories
Benet, Stephen Vincent: By the Waters of Babylon
Bradbury, Ray: There Will Come Soft Rains, The Pedestrian, A Sound of Thunder
Datlow, Ellen, & Windling, Terri (Editors): After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia
Dick, Phillip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Forster, E. M.: The Machine Stops
Grigoriev,
Vladimir: The Horn of Plenty
LeGuin, Ursula: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: Fool's Paradise
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.: Harrison
Bergeron
Novels
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid's Tale
Bellamy,
Edward: Looking Backward
Butler,
Samuel: Erewhon
Christopher, John: The Tripods series
Dante:
The Divine Comedy
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Graves, Robert:
Watch the North Wind Rise
Hudson,
W. H.: A Crystal Age
Huxley,
Aldous: Brave New World
Lowry, Lois: The Giver
McCarthy, Cormac: The Road
More,
Sir Thomas: Utopia
Morris,
William: News from Nowhere
Orwell,
George: 1984
Proust, Francine: After
Rand, Ayn: Anthem
Skinner,
B. F.: Walden Two
Swift,
Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Tarde, Gabriel: Underground Man
Nonfiction
Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
Hamilton, Alexander,
James Madison, and John Jay: The Federalist Papers
Lovins,
Amory: Imagine a World...
Machiavelli: The Prince
Marx and
Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Plato: The Republic
Plutarch: Lycurgus
Rousseau, Jean Jacques:
The Social Contract
Wells, H. G.:
A Modern Utopia
Wooden, Kenneth: The Children of Jonestown
Xenophon:
Cyropedia
Song
Lennon,
John: Imagine
Mitchell,
Joni: Woodstock
MINDCRIME, DOUBLETHINK :
Instructions for writing a paper based on Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
DYSTOPIA AND MUSIC :
A critical analysis of the concept: "Mindcrime and Doublethink: Using Music to Teach Dystopian Literature"
Comics/Graphic Novels
Moore, Alan, & Lloyd, David: V for Vendetta
Film
Howell, A. J.: Tia & Marco
Pak, Greg: Mr. Green
The Hunger Games
The Machine Stops
Terminator series
Matrix series
Images of Utopias and Dystopias
Key
Concepts and Problems
How is this society different from our own? What are
the assumptions behind the author's utopian or dystopian vision? What are the
consequences of such a society? Is the society envisioned by the author possible?
Why or why not? What is the relationship between human nature and utopia?
Handy links:
The Search
for Human Values in Literature
Teaching
Jewish Values through Literature
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Eye
for an Eye, Tooth for a tooth (FSU) by Aubrey Sallenbach
Arthurian
Ideals: Investigating Moral Character and Values (2011) by Jordan Rollins
Overcoming Adversity: Finding the Survivor in You (2013) by Lisa Madel
What Do Values Have To Do With It? by Mickala Gorrell OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Building Character: Remaining Resilient, Resourceful,
and Responsible in the Face of Adversity
Learn
NC: A survivor's story: How does it really feel?
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about choices
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about ethics/morality
Short Stories
Benet,
Stephen Vincent: By the Waters of Babylon
du Maurier, Daphne: The Birds
Kariara, Jonathan: Her Warrior
Kelley, William Melvin: Enemy Territory
Kimenye, Barbara: The Winner
Matheson, Richard: Duel
Niland, D'Arcy:
The Parachutist
Nzioki, J. Mutuku: Not Meant for Young Ears
Novels
Auel, Jean: The Clan of the Cave Bear
Bradbury,
Ray: The Martian Chronicles
Cather,
Willa: O Pioneers!
Childress, Alice: A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Clarke, Arthur C.: Childhood's End
Farrell, James: Studs Lonigan trilogy
Jackson,
Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Kayira, Legson: I Will Try
London, Jack:
The Call of the Wild
Momaday, N. Scott: House Made of Dawn
Rolvaag,
O. E.: Giants in the Earth
Solzenitzen, Alexander: One Day in the Life of
Ivan Denisovich
Theroux, Paul: The Mosquito Coast
Wells,
H. G.: The War of the Worlds
Nonfiction
Elder, Lauren, with Shirley
Streshinsky: Survival
Krakauer, Jon: Into Thin Air
Autobiographies
Brown, Claude: Manchild in the Promised Land
Films
Do the Right Thing
School Daze
Seven Beauties
Documentary Films
Examined Life
Games
Prisoner's Dilemma
Video Games
Fable Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
What values are under stress?
What factors are causing stress? How does the character respond to the stress?
What is the outcome? How do the character's values withstand the stress? How does
the character change during the story? What is the relationship between survival
and values? When will values triumph? When will the need to survive triumph?
Handy Links:
The Atomic
Bomb: How It Was Built, Why It Was Used, and How It Changed The World
Johannessen,
L. (1992). Illumination Rounds: Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War.
Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English
First World
War Literature
Writers and Literature
of the Great War
War Literature
First World War
Poets and Prose
History
of War Literature
A Sampler of Civil War Literature
Guide to Civil
War Novels
Civil War in Literature
The Literature of
War
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
The
Vietnam War (1998) by Michawne Heess & Kimberly Stembridge
Literature
of the Holocaust: A Study of Human Issues (2002) by Erin Rose Wilder
War: What
is it good for? (2004) by Brant Chesser
Preserving
Memory: Holocaust Literature and the Quest for Remembrance (2006) by Mary Michael
Sellers
Journeys of Grief: the Quest of War, Inward and
Out (2007) by Naomi White
Walking
Across Egypt By Clyde Edgerton: Exploring the Social Limitations of Age and
Youth
Online Lesson Plans:
Read-Write-Think:
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Read-Write-Think:
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Read-Write-Think:
Love of War in Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”
Read-Write-Think:
Worth Its Weight: Letter Writing with “The Things They Carried”
Read-Write-Think:
Honoring Our Veterans Through Poetry Prewriting
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute:War Photography: Propaganda, Outrage, and Empathy
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: From Slaves to Soldiers: African Americans and the Civil
War
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Holocaust: Survival Stories
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: War and Peace in the Twentieth Century
Kennedy
Center ArtsEdge: Children of War
Learn
NC: Civil War Journals
Learn
NC: Living History - Civil War
Learn
NC: Stories From the Holocaust
Learn
NC: War Is...
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Holocaust and Resistance
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Lincoln Goes to War
Poetry
Brooke,
Rupert: The Soldier
Crane,
Stephen: War Is Kind
Hardy,
Thomas: The Man He Killed
Melville,
Herman: Battle Pieces
Owen, Wilfred: Greater
Love; Futility; Sonnet:
On Seeing a Piece of Our Artillery Brought into Action; Anthem
for a Doomed Youth; Strange
Meeting
Larsen, Wendy Wilder, and Tran, Thi Nga: Deciding
Floyd, Bryan
Alec: Private Rex Jones U.S.M.C.
Berry, Jan: Floating Petals
Ehrhart,
W. D.: Fragment: 5 September 1967
Short Stories
Belin, Esther: indigenous
irony
Bierce,
Ambrose: Parker Adderson, Philosopher
D'J Pancake, Breece: The Honored
Dead
Fowler, Karen Joy: Letters from Home
Grau, Shirley Ann: Homecoming
Heinemann, Larry: The First Clean Fact
Mailer, Norman: The Language of Men
O'Brien, Tim: Don't I Know You
Robinson, Kim Stanley: The Monument
Roscoe, Judith: Soldier, Soldier
Rossman, Michael: The Day We Named Our Child
We Had Fish For Dinner
Szilard, Leo: Voice of the Dolphins
Novels
Crane, Stephen: The
Red Badge of Courage
Frazier, Charles: Cold Mountain
Halberstam, David: One Very Hot Day
Heller, Joseph: Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
Jones, James: From Here to Eternity
Mahfouz, Naguib: Love in the Rain
Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead
Mason, Bobbie Ann: In Country
O'Brien, Tim: Going After Cacciato, The Things they Carried
Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front
Shaara, Michael: The Killer Angels
Collections
Berube,
Allan (Editor): Coming Out Under Fire
Kingston, Maxine Hong (Editor): Veterans
of War, Veterans of Peace
Films
Apocalypse Now
The Bridge on the
River Kwai
Coming Home
The Deerhunter
Platoon
Saving Private
Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Nanking
Grave of the Fireflies
Memoirs/Autobiographies
Beah, Ishmael: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Lamb, Christina:
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe
Nonfiction
Scroggins, Deborah: Emma's War
Kennedy,
John F.: Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963
Songs
Neil Young's Directory
of Anti-War Songs
“Question
of the Week: Why has there been a dearth of protest songs”
Battle Hymn of the
Republic
Barenaked Ladies: Helicopters, Fun
& Games
Caissons
Go Rolling Along
Chao, Manu: Rainin' in
Paradize
Clegg,
Johnny: Inevitable Consequence of Progress
Clegg,
Johnny: Boy Soldier
Creedence
Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son
Michael Franti And Spearhead:
Light up Ya Lighter
The
Fifth Dimension: The Age of Aquarius
Haggard, Merle: The
Fighting Side of Me, Okie
from Muskogee
Hendrix,
Jimi: Machine Gun
Jal, Emmanuel: Ceasefire, WARchild
Jefferson
Airplane: Volunteers
Joel, Billy: Christmas
in Fallujah
Key, Francis Scott: The
Star Spangled Banner
Kingston
Trio: Where Have all the Flowers Gone?
Lennon, John: Give
Peace a Chance, Merry
X-mas (The War is Over)
Lynn,
Loretta: Dear Uncle Sam
Marine's Hymn
(Halls Of Montezuma)
Sadler,
Barry: Ballad of the Green Berets
Springsteen,
Bruce: Magic
When Johnny Comes Marching
Home
Wright,
Johnny: Hello Vietnam
The
Youngbloods: Get Together
Graphic Novel/Manga
Donna Barr: The Desert Peach: Tongue
Will Eisner: Last Day in Vietnam: A Memoir
Kubert, Joe. Fax from Sarajevo
Nakazawa, Keiji. Barefoot Gen
Spiegelman, Art: Maus: A Survivor's Tale; Maus II: From Mauschwitz to the Catskills
Games
Peace War Game
Video Games
Wikipedia
World War II video games entry
Wikipedia
List of World War I video games
Civil War & Military
Games
Wikipedia
Vietnam War video games
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the characters' reasons for going
to war? What do they learn from their experiences? How do they change? What are
the reasons for the fighting? What are the characters' visions of peace, before
and after their experience in war? How do the characters' attitudes toward war
change?
General Teaching Links for Archetypes:
Gary Soto's Help Wanted:An Approach to Teaching Young Adult Literature using Archetypes
Utah Education Network Introduction to Archetypes
The 12 brand archetypes all successful businesses are built on
A Gallery of Archetypes
Archetypes, Who Are You? by Caroline Myss
Handy Links:
Caregiver Archetype
Character Archetypes 101: The Caregiver
Pinterest Caregiver Archetype page
The Importance of Others: The Caregiver Archetype
Back to Top
THE CREATOR
Handy Links:
Character Archetypes 101: The Caregiver
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Epic Hero
A
Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?
Heroes
of the Anglo-Saxons
The
Epic of Shahnameh Ferdowsi
Epic
and Narrative, Forms, Poetry, Literature and . . .
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Heroes
and the Human Condition (1999) by Eric Hasty, Dana Siegmund, and Jonathan Stroud
A Hero
Lies in You (2003) by Elizabeth Gathers
Hero, Monster,
Anti-hero (2006) by Allen Witt
Beowulf
(2009) by Geoffrey Adams
Modernizing
the Epic: Making the classics applicable to students and their lives by Stephanie
Barker (FSU 2011)
The Hero Inside, an Examination of the Epic Hero by David Anthony Gibbons (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
An Introduction to Beowulf: Language and Poetics
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Read-Write-Think:
Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
Read-Write-Think:
Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing The Odyssey with Contemporary Works
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Around Us
Read-Write-Think:
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight's Edward Cullen
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Teaching the Epic of Gilgamesh
Learn NC: The Hero Connection:
From Beowulf to Batman
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about heroism
The Bible
David
(Samuel 16 18; Kings 1 2)
Joseph
(Genesis 37 50)
Moses (Exodus
1 19)
Ruth (The Book of Ruth)
Epic Poetry
Beowulf
The
Epic of Gilgamesh
Homer:
The Odyssey
The Song of Roland
Novels
Barth, John: The Sot Weed Factor
Bellow, Saul: Herzog
Clarke, Arthur
C.: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
Gardner, John:
Grendel
Hemingway, Ernest: The
Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Norris, Frank: The Octopus
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Sykes, Gerald: The Center of the
Stage
Graphic Novels/Manga
Superheroes
from DC Comics
Superheroes
from Marvel Comics
Other
Superheroes
Kazuo Koike: Lone Wolf and Cub
Video Games
Halo Franchise
Legend of Zelda Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the characteristics
of an epic? What are the characteristics of the epic hero? What are the characteristics
of the epic hero's quest? How are the different hero and quest elements similar
and different from story to story? Why are such characters heroic? Do we have
such heroes in society today? Why or why not?
EVERYMAN AND OTHER EVERYPERSONS
Handy Links:
Handy Links:
From
Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom. - book reviews
Wikipedia entry on the Folk
Hero
Traditional Literature.
Lesson Plans
Cinderella Folk
Tales: Variations in Character
Arabic Folk Literature
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Around Us
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about heroism
Folk Tales/Legends
Irving, Washington: The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Tales about such legendary
figures as Crispus
Attucks, Barney
Beal, Bowleg Bill, Pecos
Bill, Paul Bunyan
and Babe, Annie
Christmas, Mike Fink, John Henry, Jack
the Giant Killer, Casey
Jones, Joe
Magarac, Betty Zane,
and others.
Video Games
Legend of Zelda Franchise
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the characteristics
of the folk hero? What are the characteristics of the folk hero's quest? What
types of obstacles does the folk hero encounter? What qualities enable the folk
hero to triumph? What forces in a culture produce folk literature?
THE INNOCENT
Handy Links:
Character Archetypes 101: The Innocent
Character Archetypes 101: The Jester
Handy Links:
Your
Heroic Journey
A
Ninth Grade Reading of The Odyssey
The
Hero Journey: Not a Trip to Subway
Holding
out for a Hero
Mythology:
Gods, Heroes, and Universal Themes
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Journeys of Grief: the Quest of War, Inward and
Out (2007) by Naomi White
Cool
Runnings: “Peace be the Journey” (FSU) by Katherine Freniere
Planning
for the Future (FSU) by Haley Byfield
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Traveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Middle Passage: A Journey of Endurance
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Odysseys: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century African-American
History Through Personal Narrative
The Bible
Exodus
Poetry
Browning,
Robert: Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Epic Poetry
Homer: The Iliad, The
Odyssey
Short Story
Glancy, Diane: The Orchard
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel: Young Goodman Brown
Renville, D.: Siobhan La Rue in Color
Novel
Adams, Richard: Watership Down
Hemingway,
Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
Melville,
Herman: Moby-Dick
Momaday, N. Scott: The Way to Rainy Mountain
Mourning
Dove: Cogewea: The Half-Blood
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Steinbeck,
John: The Grapes of Wrath
Tolokien, J.R.R.: Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Twain, Mark: The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
Nonfiction
Iyer, Pico: Video Night in Kathmandu:
And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
Moon, William Least Heat: Blue
Highways
Autobiography
Guthrie, Woody: Bound for Glory
Schlissel,
Lillian (ed.): Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Film
El Norte
Thelma and Louise
Documentary Film
Trouble
the Water
Darius
Goes West
Song
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: Spirit is the Journey
Mitchell,
Joni: Woodstock
Spoken Word
Nilsson, Harry: The Point
Video
Games
The Longest Journey
American McGee's
Alice
World of Warcraft
Everquest
Dark
Age of Camelot
Star
Wars Galaxies
Lord of the Rings Online
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the character's
quest? What is the vehicle for the journey? What does the character value in getting
there--that is, what does the character view as sacred, dispensable, profane?
What help does the character receive along the way? How does he or she view this
help? What physical and character traits enable the journey to continue? What
changes does the character experience along the way? What destinations does the
character reach? Ultimately, what is the meaning of the journey?
Character Archetypes 101: The Lover
THE MAGICIAN
Handy Links:
Understanding the Magician Archetype
Handy links:
MythicHero.com
The
Mythic Hero
Mythic
Heroes
Mythic
Hero's Questionnaire (Frey)
Myths
of the Amazons
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Researching
the World (Mythology) (2002) by Melanie Kee
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Around Us
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about heroism
Mythology
Bellerophon
Jason
Orpheus
Perseus
Theseus
And many others
Video Games
God of War Franchise
Nonfiction
Information about such heroes, past and
present, as Neil Armstrong, Calamity Jane, César
Chávez, Joan of
Arc, Benito Juárez, Molly Pitcher, John F. Kennedy, Martin
Luther King, Jr., Teddy
Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Laura Secord, Babe
Ruth, Geronimo, Tecumseh, Mother Teresa, many
others
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the characteristics
of the mythic hero? What are the characteristics of the mythic hero's quest? What
becomes exaggerated about a mythic hero? What gets overlooked?
THE OUTLAW
Handy Links:
Archetypes: Outlaw
Handy links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Picaresque Novel
Picaresque
Novel
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Around Us
Epic Poetry
Byron,
George Gordon: Don Juan
Novels
Berger, Thomas: Little Big Man
Bellow, Saul: Henderson the Rain King, The Adventures of Augie March
Cary,
Joyce: The Horse's Mouth
Cervantes,
Miguel de: Don Quixote
Defoe,
Daniel: Moll Flanders
Faulkner, William: The Rievers
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones, Joseph
Andrews
Goldman, William: The Princess Bride
Mann, Thomas: Confessions
of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Smollett,
Tobias: Roderick Random
Swift,
Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Twain,
Mark: Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire:
Candide
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the characteristics
of the picaresque hero? How does the protagonist fit this description? What does
the hero learn from travel adventures? How is the hero affected by the lack of
a stable family? What is the author trying to say about society, based on the
adventures of the hero? What is the relationship between the characteristics of
the hero and the form of the story?
Handy Links:
Handy Links:
Handy links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Tragic Hero
The
Dislocated Tragic Hero in Latvian Drama
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Read-Write-Think:
Heroes Around Us
Read-Write-Think:
Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in Dramatic Tragedy
Learn NC: Oedipus the King Reader's
Theatre
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about heroism
Epic Poetry
Homer:
The Iliad
Novels
Conrad,
Joseph: Lord Jim
Hardy,
Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Mann, Thomas: Doctor Faustus
Updike,
John: Rabbit Run
Wharton,
Edith: Ethan Frome
Drama
Aeschylus: Prometheus
Bound, Persae, Oresteia, Agamemnon
Chekhov, Anton:
The Cherry Orchard
Euripides: Medea, Heracles
Ibsen,
Henrik: Hedda Gabler, The
Wild Duck
O'Neill,
Eugene: The Emperor Jones
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello
Shaw,
George Bernard: St. Joan
Sophocles: The
Oedipus Cycle, Prometheus Bound, Antigone
Film
Throne of Blood
Scotland, Pa.
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the characteristics
of the tragic hero? How is the character affected by fate? Does the tragic hero
have free will? What is characteristic of tragic plot structure? How do you feel
about what happens to the tragic hero? What statement about life is the author
making through the tragic hero?
Handy links:
Wikipedia entry on the Trickster
The Trickster
Fool's
Paradise
Native
American Trickster Tales
Folk Tales/Fables/Children's Stories
Aesop:
The Fox, the Crow, and the Cheese
Grimm,
Jacob and Wilhelm: Little Red Riding Hood
Harris,
Joel Chandler: Br'er Rabbit stories
La
Fontaine: Reynard the Fox stories
Dr. Seuss: The Cat in the Hat, The
Cat in the Hat Comes Back
The Bible
The
Fall (Genesis 3)
Epic Poetry
Homer:
The Odyssey
Milton,
John: Paradise Lost
Short Stories
Alexie, Sherman: Somebody kept
saying Powwow
Benet,
Stephen Vincent: The Devil and Daniel Webster
Brant, Beth: Coyote Learns
a New Trick
Conley, Robert J.: Wili Woyi
Dorris, Michael: Groom Service
Earling, Debra: Jules Bart, Giving too Much-August 1946
Henry,
O.: The Ransom of Red Chief
Salisbury, Ralph: Aniwaya, Anikawa, and the
Killer Teen-Agers
Twain, Mark: The
Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Novels
Bulgakov, Mikhail:
The Master and Margarita
Cary, Joyce: The Horse's Mouth
Dickens,
Charles: Oliver Twist
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
O'Brien,
Flann: At Swim Two Birds
Twain,
Mark: Tom Sawyer
Drama
Jonson,
Ben: Volpone
Moliere:
Tartuffe
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the characteristics
of the trickster? What are the trickster's motives? How does the trickster affect
the other characters? Would you classify the trickster as good, or bad? Why? What
are typical plot patterns involving tricksters?
Handy Links
List of female action heroes and villains
50 Greatest Female Movie Character
Movies with Strong Female Character
Fiction
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Prime of Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Foretelling, by Alice Hoffman
Zita the Spacegirl trilogy (Ben Hayek)
Giants Beware (Jorge Aguerre)
Dragons Beware (Jorge Aguerre)
Amulet series (Kazu Kibuishi)
Where the Mountains Meet the Moon (Grace Lin, also two others by her)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
Dawn (Octavia Butler)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Epic/Ancient Poems, Myths, and Legends
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
Tasso's The Liberation of Jerusalem
Spenser's The Fairy Queene
Dante's Divine Comedy
Homer’s The Odyssey (Penelope)
Medea by Euripides
The Amazons
Diana
Antigone
Lysistrata
Nonfiction
Mary Beard The Public Voice of Women
Aphra Behn
The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature by Remke Kruk
Handy Links
MSN Encarta
entry on Allegory
Wikipedia entry on Allegory
Allegory magazine
Dictionary
of the History of Ideas: Allegory in Literary History
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Fairy
Tales, Folk Tales, and Intertextuality: A Unit for Tenth Grade World Literature
(2010) by Audrey Jordan
Fairies
and Folk: A Unit Exploring Fairytales and Folklore From the Modern Perspective
(FSU 2011) by Christina DiBella
Online
Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Blues Music in Literature (2013) by Lacey Crump
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:):
Investigations into Literary Humor (2013) by
Catherine Vandenberg
Novels
Austen,
Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Bellow, Saul: Henderson the Rain King, Herzog
Burgess, Anthony: Enderby
Fielding,
Henry: Tom Jones
Hughes, Langston: Not Without Laughter
Smith, Lee:
Family Linen, Oral History
Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces
Wodehouse, P.G.: The Inimitable Jeeves
Drama
Barrie, J.M.: The Admirable
Crichton
Chase,
Mary: Harvey
Coward, Noel: Weatherwise
Gay,
John: The Beggar's Opera
Goldsmith,
Oliver: She Stoops to Conquer
Jonson,
Ben: Volpone
Moliere:
Tartuffe; en Français
Shakespeare, William:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It
Sheridan,
Richard Brinsley: The Rivals, The School for Scandal
Wilde,
Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest
Spoken Word
DJ
Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince: I think I can beat Mike Tyson
DJ
Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince: Parents Just Don't Understand
Key Concepts and Problems
What literary techniques (irony
and so forth) does the playwright use to achieve a comic effect? What purpose
does the comedy have? Why is comedy an effective means of making a serious point?
Do you laugh at yourself as you see humor in the drama? Why or why not? What are
the characteristics of comic characters? What are typical characteristics of comic
plots?
Handy Links:
The
Thrilling Detective
Wikipedia
entry on Detective Fiction
Murder
Squad: Crime Fiction to Die for
Detnovel.com
Crime Fiction
Court
TV Crime Library
A
Selective Index of Detective Fiction
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Expository Escapade—Detective’s Handbook
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Detective Fiction: Its Use as Literature and as History
Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute: Gender, Race, and Milieu in Detective Fiction
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Detective Fiction: Its Use as Literature and History
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Society and the Detective Novel
Short Stories
Doyle,
Sir Arthur Conan: Sherlock Holmes stories
Gilbert, Michael: The Oyster Catcher
Hocky, Mary: Stranger on the Night
Train
Mayor, Ralph H., Jr.: The Buried Treasure of Oak Island
Novels
Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep
Christie, Agatha: Murder on the Orient
Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Francis, Dick: Banker
Hoeg, Peter:
Smilla's Sense of Snow
James, P. D.: Death of an Expert Witness, Shroud for
a Nightingale
Murray, Stephen: A Cool Killing
Paretsky, Sara: Killing
Orders, Deadlock, Indemnity Only
Peters, Elizabeth: The Deeds of the Disturber
Sayers, Dorothy L.: Murder Must Advertise
Scoppetone, Sandra: Playing
Murder
Tey, Josephine: Brat Farrar
Wilzien, Valere: Murder at the PTA
Luncheon
Graphic Novels/Manga
Michael Lark: Raymond Chandler's Philip
Marlowe: The Little Sister
Video Games
Phoenix Wright: Ace
Attorney
Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Franchises
Key Concepts and Problems
What qualities does the
detective have that help in solving crimes? What are typical patterns and properties
of detective stories? What sorts of obstacles does the detective encounter? How
does he or she overcome them? What qualities allow the detective to triumph over
adversaries?
Songs about Food
Movies featuring Food
Literature built around Food
The Feast in Literature
The Feast in Film, Philosophy, and Fiction
Babette's Feast A Fable for Culinary France
Handy
Links:
The
Frontier in American Literature
American
Frontier
The Frontier
in American Literature by Lucy Lockwood Hazard
Frontier
Literature
Novels
Allen, Hervey: The Forest and the Fort
Brown, Dee: Wave High the Banner
Cather, Willa: Obscure
Destinies, My
Antonia
Cooper, James Fenimore: The
Last of the Mohicans, The
Pioneers
Fletcher, Inglis: Roanoke Hundred
Forbes, Esther: Paradise
Garland, Hamlin: Moccasin Ranch
Giles, Janice Holt: Land Beyond the Mountains
MacLachlan, Patricia: Sarah Plain and Tall, Skylark
Mason, F. Van Wyck: The Young Titan
Mourning Dove: Cogewea: The Half-Blood
Richter, Conrad: Free Man, Light in the Forest
Rolvaag, O. E.: Giants in the Earth
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Swanson, Neil: The Silent Drum
Vaughan, Carter: The Invincibles
Welty, Eudora: The Robber Bridegroom
Widdemer, Margaret: The Golden Wildcat
Video Games
The Oregon Trail
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the goal of the
settlers? What is their attitude toward (a) nature, (b) Native Americans, and
(c) the law? How do they try to achieve their goal? Who or what are their allies
in achieving their goal? What are their obstacles? How do the properties of a
frontier help determine the form of a frontier story? What are typical characteristics
of heroes in frontier stories? How does the perspective of the narrator invite
particular responses and sympathies of readers? What are the consequences of these
responses and sympathies for developing a perspective on Western expansion and
native people?
Handy Links
The
Literary Gothic
Dehumanization & Monsters in Literature: Types with Examples
Wikipedia
entry on Gothic Fiction
Gothic
Literature Page
The
Gothic and American Literature
Resources
for the Study of Gothic Literature
Goth.net
The Goth culture: Its history,
stereotypes, religious aspects, etc.
Gothic
Undercurrents: Instructor Overview
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
The Grotesque
of the Gothic: From Poe to the Present (2007) by Amy Dyster Phillips
Fear,
Darkness, & Mystery: A Unit on Gothic Literature (2010) by Shannon Cheek
Love
and Death Within Gothic Short Stories and Poetry (FSU 2011) by Cameron Cinkus
Things
That Go Bump in the Night: A Six Week Unit Study on Gothic Literature (2012)
by Jennifer DeLong
The
Tingle of Delighted Horror: An October Unit (2012) by Joey Morrow
The Risks and Rewards of Science by Heather Ross (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
Key Concepts and Problems
What characterizes Gothic Literature?
How are Gothic themes present in today's society? Why do Gothic themes have enduring
interest and appeal? What is the point of studying Gothic literature and other
texts? Why might some people find Gothic themes offensive and dangerous? How might
one respond to these criticisms?
GRAPHIC NOVELS AND OTHER TEXTS
Handy Links:
Graphic Texts in the Classroom
Building an Online Community to Engage Adolescent Readers
with Graphic Texts by Marc L. Ginsberg
Handy
Links:
DMOZ
Hard-Boiled
Wikipedia
entry on Hard-Boiled Fiction
Hard-Boiled
Mysteries
Hardboiled
Heaven
Twists, Slugs and
Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
Handy Links:
American
Film Institute's 100 Heroes and Villains
Top 100 Comic Book Villains
of All Time
Marvel Comic Villains
50
Greatest Villains in Literature
10
Vilest Villains of Fictional Literature
Perceptions
of Heroes and Villains in European Literature
The
50 greatest villains in literature
Villains
in Literature
CNN Heroes
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Battle
of the Villains (2010) by Lauren Niemeyer
What
Makes a Hero: Exploring Traits of a Hero & the Plot of Their Story: A Unit
on Story Elements and Characterization (FSU) by Colae Logueby
The
Hero's Journey: Becoming the Hero of Your Own Life and Beyond: A Six Week Unit
for 9th Grade CP (2012) by Morgan Peterson
Novels
MY HERO recommends these books for teenage readers
Anderson, Laurie Halse: Speak
Bauer, Joan: Rules of the Road
Buhold, Lois McMaster: Paladin of Souls
Farmer, Nancy: A Girl Named Disaster
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams
Voigt, Cynthia: Homecoming
Essays on & Stories about Real Heroes
T.A. Barron: Young Heroes
Carnegie Hero Fund
Student essays on heroes
This I Believe hero essays
Memoir
Beals, Melba Pattillo: Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Frank, Anne: The Diary of a Young Girl
Klein, Gerda Weissmann: All But My Life: A Memoir
Graphic Stories
Malala Yousafzai's I Have The Right
Ted Talk
Winkler, Matthew: What makes a hero?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on Horror
Fiction
A Few Thoughts
on the Horror Genre
Writers
who've mastered the horror/suspense genre
Horror Films
Thriller and Suspense
Films
Teaching the Horror Genre
Introduction
to the Horror and Suspense Genre
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Horror
and Suspense: Edgar Allan Poe (2009) by Alisa Swain
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
"What's
So Funny?": Exploring Comedy, Humor, and Laughter (2012) by Taylor Schulze
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Literary Perspectives of Growing Up: Coming of Age Tales by Michael Potts (OSU 2016)
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on Memoir
Wikipedia list
of authobiographies
Wikipedia list of
memoirists
Handy links:
Wikipedia's
list of metafictional texts
Theories
of metafiction
Metafiction
Comparative Multi-Cultural Literature.
Topic: Metafiction & Politics
Metafiction
DMOZ
Metafiction
Key Concepts and Problems:
What fictional devices
are emphasized in the text? What relation between fiction and reality is posed?
In what ways is the work ironic? What points is the author making through the
metafictional presentation?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on Mystery (fiction)
Yahoo!
Literature > Mystery > Characters Links
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
Handy Links
Wikipedia entry on Mythology
Encyclopedia Mythica
Mythology
Digital Librarian
Mythology Links
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Creations
(2000) by Michael Bryan and Melia Skorupski
Researching
the World (Mythology) (2002) by Melanie Kee
A Different Dimension:
Fantasy, Folktales, Myths and Legends (2004) by Taylor Culjan
Wonders of Mythology
and Folklore (2005) by Kerri Singer
What is a
Myth?: An Introduction to Mythology (2007) by Suzanne Butler
MythBusters:
Exploring Mythology and Folklore from Around the World (2008) by Stephanie Markham
Monsters
under Our Beds by John Kelly, University of Cincinnati
Online Lesson Plans
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Cultures and Their Myths
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Greek and Roman Mythology
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute: Greek Civilization
Video Games
God of War Franchise
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
Handy Links
American Indians in Children's Literature
Maybe Abusive Authors Don�t Belong on my Bookshelf. But What about my Classroom?
Early Native American Writers
Native American Literature
Native Languages of the Americas: American Indian Literature
What is Native American Literature?
Native American Literature--selected bibliography, compiled by K.L. MacKay
Wikipedia entry on Native American Literature
Paula Gunn Allen website
N. Scott Momaday
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Voices and Identities in Native American Literature (2013) by Brittany Ann Moore
Novels
Lousie Erdrich: Birchbark House, The Round House
Debby Dahl Edwardson: My name is not easy
Joseph Bruchac: bk.1
Velma Wallis: Two Old Women, An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival
Francis La Flesche: The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve: When Thunders Spoke
Velma Wallis: Two Old Women, An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival
Short Stories
BRAIDED LIVES: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing (1991)
Memoir
Delphine Red Shirt: Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood
Mary Brave Bird: Lakota Woman
Nonfiction
David Treuer: Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Multimedia
Torn Jersey Media
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON OLD STORIES
Handy Links
Anglin, J. L., & Smagorinsky, P. (2014). Hip-hop Hamlet: Hybrid interpretive discourse in a suburban high school English class. Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal, 2, 41-69. DOI: 10.5195/dpj.2014.73. Available at http://dpj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/dpj1/article/view/73/55
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Differing Perspectives (2007) by Michael Williams
Am
I a “Weapon of Massive Consumption”? : Learning to Fire the Canon
(2010) by Kelly Galloway
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Read-Write-Think:
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Children's Stories
The Three Little Pigs/Jon
Scieszka & Lane Smith: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Sleeping Beauty/Maleficent
Peter Pan/Tiger Lily
lots of Little Red Riding Hood stories (including some modern Gothic types);
Bible
narratives
Luke
Chapter 23/The Dream
of the Rood
Ancient Tales
Beowulf/John
Gardner: Grendel
The Canterbury Tales/ Patience Agbabi: Telling Tales
Antigone/ Antigona Gonzalez by Sara Uribe; Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Aristophanes� Lysistrata/Chi-Rak (Spike Lee film)
Fiction
Louisa
May Alcott: Little Women/Geraldine Brooks: March
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice/Bridget Jones's Diary
L.
Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz/Gregory Maguire:Wicked: The Life and Times of
the Wicked Witch of the West/Son of a Witch/Wicked
Charlotte
Bronte: Jane Eyre/Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights/Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
Albert Camus: The Plague/Contagion
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland/Melanie Benjamin: Alice I Have Been
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness /Apocalypse Now
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations/Lloyd Jones's Mr. Pip
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night/Z
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited/Laura Moriarty: The Chaperone
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
E. M. Forster: Howard's End/Zadie Smith: On Beauty
Nathaniel
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter/ Pearl
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun also Rises/Paula McLean: The Paris Wife
Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast/Amanda Vaill: Everybody was so Young
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird/The Help
Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick/Ahab's Wife
Margaret
Mitchell: Gone with the Wind/Donald McDaig: Rhett Butler's People
George Orwell: 1984/Jen Lancaster: Pretty in Plaid
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front/Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/Eprile's A True History of the Notorious Mr. Edward Hyde
Mark
Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Jon Clinch: Finn/Nancy Rawles's My Jim
Vergil:
Aeneid
H.G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau/Megan Shepherd: Madman's Daughter
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway/The Hours
Epic Poetry
Virgil: Aeneid/Ursula K. Le Guin: Lavinia
Poetry
Ezra Pound: The River Merchant's Wife/Li Po: Song from Chang-Kan and Edward Hirsch: The River Merchant: A Letter Home
Carver's "Cathedral" with his wife Gallagher's "Rain Flooding Your Campfire";
Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night/Linda Pastan: Go Gentle
Drama
Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac/Roxanne
William
Shakespeare: Hamlet/Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead/The Lion King/David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle/John Updike: Gertrude and Claudius/David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
William Shakespeare: King Lear/Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres
William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare in Love
William Shakespeare:Twelfth Night/She's The Man
William Shakespeare:Romeo & Juliet/Warm Bodies
William Shakespeare:Taming of the Shrew/10 Things I Hate About You
William Shakespeare: The Tempest/Aimé Césaire: A Tempest
Sophocles: Oedipus/Rita Dove: The Darker Face of the Earth
Film
Casablanca/Out Cold
Key
Concepts and Problems
How is a story different when told from another character's
perspective? What changes in a reader's response when the narrative perspective
changes? How might other stories be retold from the perspective of another character?
Handy links:
Wikipedia
list of parodies
Parody
videos
Funny song parodies
The Dr. Seuss Parody Page
Dumbentia
The
Parody Pages
Song Parodies
Online
Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer’s Style through Imitation<
Writing
by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about parody
Prose
Columns by distinctive writers
such as Andy Rooney, Molly
Ivins, Dave Barry
Several short
stories by a writer with a distinctive style, such as Edgar
Allan Poe
Several examples from a distinctive genre, such as lab reports,
fairy tales, recipes, sports writing
Video Games
American
McGee's Alice
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the distinctive features
of a writer's style? Consider (a) themes, (b) sentence structure, (c) commonly
used words or word types, (d) point of view, (e) types of details, and (f) types
of literary techniques. What are the distinctive features of a given genre in
terms of structure? Assignment: To write a distinctive genre piece (such as a
recipe, lab report, fairy tale, or sports writing) in the style of the writer
studied.
Handy
Links:
Pinkbooks
Oasis
Magazine Pinkbooks.com
Handy Links:
African American Protest Poetry
South African Resistance Art
Wikipedia entry on Protest
Wikipedia entry on the
Stonewall Riots
Protest
Literature
Tradition
of American protest literature probed
Antislavery Literature
Project
A Collaboration
of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
Protest
Literature of the Dead Bald White Guys Meets Protest Music of All Colors: Using
Music To Connect Students to American Revolutionary Literature
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Resistance
Literature (1999) by Quiana Camp, Matt Davis, and Chelle Harris
Protest Literature
and the American Experience (2003) by Derek Chelf
“Vociferous
Voices from our Pitiless Past” A Unit on Protest Literature for 10th grade
(FSU) by Elizabeth Schaick
A
Multi-Genre Look At The Social Change Of The 1960’s and 1970’s, Grade
12 (FSU) by Samantha Buchweitz
Online
Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
Read-Write-Think:
Battling for Liberty: Tecumseh’s and Patrick Henry’s Language of Resistance
Read-Write-Think:
Writing Free Verse in the “Voice” of Cesar Chavez
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry: The Medium of Choice for Political Unrest
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Looking at Human Struggle Through The Language Arts
Curriculum: The Faces of Slavery
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Ethnicity and Dissent in American Literature and Art
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Mohandas Gandhi: The Art of Nonviolence
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Sing Two Stanzas and Rebel in the Morning: The Role
of Black Religious Music in the Struggle for Freedom
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Sixties: Notes of Discord
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
National Endowment
for the Humanities: Revolutionary Tea Parties and the Reasons for Revolution
Learn
NC: "Civil Disobedience" excerpt seminar<
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about protest
Poetry
Dunbar,
Paul Laurence: Sympathy
Hughes, Langston: Dream
Deferred, Ballad
of the Landlord
Jeffers, Lance: On Listening to the Spirituals
McKay,
Claude: The White House
Randall, Dudley: The Idiot
Short Stories
Freeman, Joseph: From Bohemia to Russia
Mailer, Norman: The Patron Saint
of MacDougal Alley
Novels
Bellamy, Charles: The Breton Mills
Kesey,
Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
London,
Jack: The Iron Heel
Orwell,
George: Animal Farm
Sinclair,
Upton: The Jungle
Ward,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: The Silent Partner
Nonfiction
Anthony,
Susan B.: Woman Wants Bread, Not the Ballot!
Catt, Carrie Chapman: Speech
before Congress, 1917, 1904 to 1911: Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?
Cleaver,
Eldridge: Soul on Ice
Dunbar, Roxanne: Female Liberation as the Basis for
Social Revolution
Henry,
Patrick: Speech to the Virginia Convention
Hentoff,
Nat: The War on the Bill of Rights
Jefferson,
Thomas: Declaration of Independence
King,
Martin Luther, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Mandela,
Nelson: Statement on resisting apartheid
Paine,
Thomas: The Crisis Papers
Thoreau,
Henry David: Civil Disobedience
Autobiographies
Malcolm X with
Alex Haley: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Film
Cool Hand Luke
Do the Right Thing
Matewan
Norma Rae
Documentary Film
Eyes on the Prize series
American
Experience: Stonewall Uprising
American
Experience: Triangle Fire [women's labor strike]
Martin Luther King, Jr.: From Memphis to Montgomery
If We So Choose (short documentary on the integration of The Varsity in Athens, GA)
Song
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: One (Hu)Man, One Vote
Wikipedia
entry on Protest songs
Protest
songs
AFRICAN AMERICAN
CIVIL RIGHTS {FREEDOM} SONGS
Key Concepts and Problems
What conditions have prompted
the protest? What steps does the writer suggest we take in making a protest? Is
there a common series of steps that the writers suggest to take in protesting?
Does the writer suggest the point at which we should abandon the protest that
is, is a radical alternative such as violence appropriate in the situation in
question? Is the protest justified? Why or why not? What are the differences between
fictional and nonfictional protests? What are the typical forms of protest literature?
PULP FICTION
Handy Links:
DMOZ
Pulp Fiction
Wikipedia entry on Pulp
Magazines
What was Pulp Fiction?
Serial
and Government Publications Division: Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction Postcards!
Handy links:
Wikipedia
entry on Romance
Romance
Web Gateway
Yahoo
Search: Romance: Literature
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Romantic Poetry-Defining
Self-Expression and Imagination (2002) by Carly L. Plonka
Fairy Tales
Cinderella
Snow White
Mythology
Persephone
Perseus
Romulus
and Remus
The Bible
Jesus
(Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)
Moses
(Exodus 1 19)
Poetry
Keats,
John: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Tennyson,
Alfred: The Lotus Eaters
Short Stories
Colette:
The Secret Woman
Collier,
John: The Chaser
Hemingway,
Ernest: Hills Like White Elephants
Poe,
Edgar Allan: William Wilson
Novels
Bronte,
Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte,
Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs,
Edgar Rice: Tarzan
Cain, James M.: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cervantes, Miguel
de: Don Quixote
Cheever, John: Oh, What a Paradise It Seems
Crutcher,
Chris: Running Loose
Davis, Terry: Vision Quest
Estey, Dale: A Lost Tale
Golding, William: The Princess Bride
Holland, Isabelle: Summer of My
First Love
Kerr, M. E.: Gentlehands, Him She Loves?, I Stay Near You
Lee, Mildred: The People Therein
Le Guin, Ursula: Very Far Away from Anywhere
Else
Lipsyte, Robert: Jack and Jill
Lyle, Katie: Dark But Full of Diamonds
Malory, Sir
Thomas: Le Morte d'Arthur
Marshall, Katherine: Christie
du Maurier,
Daphne: Rebecca
Mazer, Harry: I Love You, Stupid!
McCullough, Colleen:
The Thorn Birds
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
Myers, Walter
Dean: Motown and Didi
Tolkien, J.R.R.: Lord of the Rings
Vonnegut, Kurt,
Jr.: Slaughterhouse Five
Drama
Goethe,
Johann Wolfgang von: Faust
Shakespeare, William: A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo
and Juliet, The
Tempest
West, Jessamyn: The Massacre at Fall Creek
Wilkinson, Brenda:
Ludell and Willie
Zindel, Paul: The Pigman
Films
Fatal Attraction
Play Misty for Me
Key Concepts and Problems
How does the world of innocence
come into play in each selection? What kind of quest does the hero pursue in each
story? How are they similar and different? How do magic, mystery, and miracles
function in these selections? What roles do vision and revelation play in these
selections? What sorts of fulfillment do the characters seek? What are the typical
elements and patterns of romance? What problems tend to frustrate romantic possibilities
in ironic romances? Why does irony so often enter into romantic stories?
Handy links:
Wikipedia
entry on Satire
Wikipedia list of satirists and satires
Satire Wire
The Onion
Political
Humor
The Purpose and
Method of Satire
SatireSearch
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Teaching
Cultural and Historical Literacy Through Satire (2005) by Christian Ehret
Online
Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the Satire
Read-Write-Think: Exploring Satire with Shrek
Read-Write-Think: Exploring Satire with The Simpsons
Read-Write-Think: Seeking Social Justice Through Satire: Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
Read-Write-Think: Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
Learn NC: Introduction to Animal
Farm
Learn NC: Martin
Luther's Reformation In Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Fables
Aesop's Fables
di Prima, Diane
(ed.): Various Fables from Various Places
Thurber,
James: Fables for our Time
Cartoons
Breathed,
Berke: Bloom County cartoons
Martin,
Joe: Mr. Boffo cartoons
McGruder,
Aaron: The Boondocks cartoons
Trudeau,
Garry: Doonesbury cartoons
Poetry
Famous Satire Poems
Cleghorn,
Sarah: The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill
Clough,
Arthur Hugh: The Latest Decalogue
cummings,
e. e.: i sing of Olaf, glad and big
Donne,
John: Song
Hardy,
Thomas: Satires of Circumstance
Masters,
Edgar Lee: selections from Spoon River Anthology
Robinson,
Edwin Arlington: Miniver Cheevy
Sassoon,
Siegfried: Base Details
Shelley,
Percy Bysshe: Ozymandias
Smith, Stevie: The Zoo
Short Stories
Short Satire and Parody Stories
Nice Stories: Satire
The Satirist: Fiction
The Young Writers Society: Satire
Boll, Heinrich: Action Will Be Taken
Daudet,
Alphonse: The Death of the Dauphin
King, Thomas: A Seat in the Garden
Machado, Anibal Monteiro: The Piano
Maupassant,
Guy de: The Necklace
Saki:
The Interlopers
Novels
Wikipedia list of satirical novels
Goodreads Popular Satire Books
Ranker: Best Satirical Novels
Austen,
Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Dickens,
Charles: Hard Times
Heller, Joseph: Catch 22
Mahfouz, Naguib: Smalltalk
on the Nile
Orwell,
George: Animal Farm
Smiley, Jane: Moo
Swift,
Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Twain, Mark: Huckleberry
Finn, Pudd'nhead
Wilson
Wibberley,
Leonard: The Mouse That Roared
Drama
Drama Online: Satire
Patrick,
John: Teahouse of the August Moon
Shaw,
George Bernard: Arms and the Man
Wilde, Oscar:
The Importance of Being Earnest
Nonfiction
Anderson,
Jordon: To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
The Onion
Films
Wikipedia list of satirical films
Top Satirical Films
Being There
Dr. Strangelove
The Front Page
His Girl Friday
Hollywood Shuffle
Network
The Player
Wag the Dog
WALL-E
Graphic Novels/Manga
Beverly Red and Mitch Hall: Ignoring Binky:
The Life and Times of Victor Evertor
Songs
Barenaked Ladies: Conventioneers, Fun &
Games, Be
My Yoko Ono, and many
others
Tom
Lehrer: Who's Next? and many
others
Randy
Newman: Short People and many others
Andre Tanker: Food Fight
Television
Portlandia
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the definition of satire?
What is the specific target of ridicule within the work? How does the satirist
use character and event to ridicule the target? How does the ridicule of the target
within the work apply to the real world? What are the satiric devices used in
the selections and how are they used?
Handy links:
Wikipedia
entry on Science Fiction
Wikipedia:
List of Science Fiction Themes
Wikipedia
entry on Cyberpunk
SciFi Channel
SF Site
SFF
World
The
Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide
Science
Fiction
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Science Fiction:
Critiquing the Present, Exploring the Future (2004) by Joshua Dyer
Humanity
and Science Fiction (2009) by Chiarita Rose
The Sky is
Falling (2011) by Kaitlin Bevis
The
Future of Us: Science Fiction and the Short Story (2011) by Nathan Lawrence
The Risks and Rewards of Science by Heather Ross (OSU 2016)
Online
Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Finding the Science Behind Science Fiction through Paired Readings
Read-Write-Think:
Writing Alternative Plots for Robert C. O’Brien’s Z for Zachari
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about aliens
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about outer space
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about sci-fi
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about the supernatural
Short Stories
Selections
from The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Novels
Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's
Guide series
Asimov, Isaac: I, Robot; The Foundation series
Blish, James:
Star Trek Logs
Brooks, Terry: Sword of Shannara series
Clarke, Arthur
C.: Childhood's End; 2001: A Space Odyssey
Delaney, Samuel: Nova, The Einstein
Intersection
Harrison, Harry: Stainless Steel Rat series
Heinlein, Robert:
Stranger in a Strange Land
Herbert, Frank: Dune series
Le Guin, Ursula:
Wizard of Earthsea trilogy
Lem, Stanislaw: Solaris
McCaffrey, Anne:
Dragonriders of Pern series
Wells, H. G.: The
War of the Worlds, The
Time Machine
Zelazny, Roger: Amber series
Graphic Novels/Manga
Graphic
Novels for Public Libraries: Science Fiction
The
Comics Get Serious (includes Science Fiction listings)
Films
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Star Wars
2001: A Space Odyssey
WALL-E
Directory of Science Fiction
films
Video Games
Wikipedia
Science fiction video games
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the conditions
of the world the author has created? How is this world different from our own?
How is it the same? What is the protagonist's quest? What obstacles does the protagonist
face? How does he or she overcome them? How does the character change during the
story? How is the author using the futuristic setting to make observations about
today's people? How do the special conditions of the story relate to its form?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
The Power
of Storytelling: A Gateway into the Narrative (2011) by Lauren Rice
Defining
Happily Ever After: Traditional, Realistic, and Personal (FSU 2011) by Sarah
Mazza
Student Writing
https://narratio.org/
Handy
Links:
StreetFiction.org
Wikipedia
entry on Urban Fiction
Urban
Fiction/Street Lit/Hip Hop Fiction Resources for Librarians
Street
Fiction: Great Novels You Haven't Read Yet
Street
Fiction: Urban Book Reviews and Author Interviews
Street
Fiction: Writings about the grim realities of life in the projects and ghettos
of America’s cities
Street
Fiction
In the Virtual Library, see:
Journey
through Time with Literature: Past. Present. Future. (FSU 2011) by Nikki Smith
Television
Lost
Dr. Who
Video Games
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Key Concepts and Problems
What is the enduring appeal
of stories about time travel? What do the fictional characters hope to accomplish
by time travel? What sorts of problems do they encounter? Which goals are they
able to meet, and why? How do time travel experiences affect the ways in which
characters think about their own times?
Novels
DeVillers, Julia: Trading Faces
Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities
Fleischman, Sid: The Whipping
Boy
Pierce, Tamara: Song of the Lioness series
Twain, Mark: The Prince and the Pauper
Movies
The Parent Trap
The Scapegoat
Trading Places
Drama
Plautus: The Brothers Menaechmus
Shakespeare, William: The Comedy of Errors
Television
Mad Men
The Riches
Handy Links:
Literary
Traveler
Travel Writing
Wikipedia
entry on Travel Literature
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Beyond “What I Did on Vacation”: Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing
Twain, Mark: Life on the Mississippi, Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator
Handy links:
Wikipedia entry on the
Western (genre)
Western
Films
The
Western: An Overview
Top
Western Movies
Western
Fiction
The
Western Genre Fled Across the Desert, and Stephen King Followed
A Reading List for a Course in the Literature of the American West by
John Wilson Jr
Novels
Berger, Thomas: Little Big Man
Cather,
Willa: My Antonia
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg: The Ox Bow Incident
Faust,
Frederick Schiller: Destry Rides Again
Ferber, Edna: Cimarron
Gann, Walter:
The Trail Boss
Grey,
Zane: Riders of the Purple Sage
Guthrie, A. B., Jr.: The Way West
L'Amour, Louis: The Ferguson Rifle, many
others
Le May, Alan: The Searchers
Sandoz,
Mari: Cheyenne Autumn
Schaefer,
Jack: Shane
Film
Cheyenne August
High Noon
High Plains Drifter
The Searchers
The Unforgiven
Video Games
Wikipedia
List of Western computer and video games
Key Concepts and Problems
Describe the white characters'
attitudes toward (a) nature, (b) Native Americans, and (c) the law. How does the
author feel about the white characters' attitudes? How do the whites "settle"
the land? What types of conflicts arise in the story? How are they resolved? With
whom do your sympathies lie in the story? What are the common properties of Westerns?
Handy
links:
Revisiting the
Common Adventure Concept: An Annotated Review of the Literature, Misconceptions
and Contemporary Perspectives
Scenic
and Wilderness Travel Literature, c.1850-1920
Reviews
of the Winners of the Literature Category National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA)
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Adventure
(1999) by Todd Hedden, Shane Orr, and Allison Shroyer
“On the
Edge”: Suspenseful Literature (2007) by Amanda Paulk
Wilderness Adventure by Kaley Semrad (OSU 2016)
Online
Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
Learn
NC: Survival! A Lesson for Language Arts and Novice ESL Students
Writing
by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about adventure
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about dreams/adventure
Short Stories
Buford,
Jim: Swam Justice
Davidson, W. E.: The Jaguar Sprang to Kill
Freedman,
Benedict and Nancy: Fire in the Wilderness
Judson, William: Survival on Cold
River
McPhee, John: A Postponed Death
Vandercook, John W.: The Man Who
Loved Elephants
Novels
Defoe,
Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Dickey, James: Deliverance
Stevenson,
Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Theroux, Paul: Mosquito Coast
Verne,
Jules: A Voyage to the Center of the Earth
Nonfiction
Brown, Joseph
E.: The Mormon Trek West
Curry, Jane: The River's in My Blood: River Boat
Pilots Tell Their Stories
DeVoto,
Bernard (Ed.): The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Graham, Robin Lee: Home
Is the Sailor
Heyerdahl, Thor: Kon Tiki; Aku Aku: The Secret of Easter Island;
The Ra Expeditions
Lindemann, Hannes: Alone at Sea
Severin, Tim: The
Brendan Voyage
Graphic Novels/Manga
William Nealy: Whitewater Home Companion. Volume 1: Southeastern Rivers
Video Games
Metal Gear Solid Four: Guns of the Patriots
Images of Wilderness Adventures
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the
obstacles that the characters face? How do they overcome them? What are the characters'
goals? What characteristics enable the characters to triumph? How do the characters
benefit from their adventures? How does the environment affect the characters?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Animals as
Symbols (2001) by E. Michelle Holbert
Online Lesson Plans
Learn
NC: Elements of a Fable
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about animals
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about personification
Fables/Fairy Tales/Folk Tales
Aesop's Fables
Mother
Goose Rhymes
Tales from Jacob
and Wilhelm Grimm
Folk
and Fairy Tales from Around the World
Folktales
Gigantic Folk Tale Archive
Phaedrus: The Fox
and the Dragon, The Ant and the Fly
Tales
of China
Tales
of India
Tales
of the Winnebago: The Hare
The Bible
The
Golden Calf (Exodus 32, 33:1 6)
The
Lost Sheep (Luke 15:3 7)
Poetry
Blake,
William: The Tiger
Chalfi, Raquel: Porcupine Fish
Dickey, James:
The Bee
Dickinson, Emily: "Hope"
is the thing with feathers, A
Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Lawrence,
D. H.: Snake
Moore,
Marianne: The Monkeys
Poe,
Edgar Allen: The Raven
Rilke,
Rainer Maria: The Panther
Roethke,
Theodore: Snake
Schwartz,
Delmore: The Heavy Bear
Tennyson,
Alfred: The Eagle
Whitman,
Walt: A Noiseless Patient Spider
Short Stories
Dahl, Roald: Poison
du Maurier, Daphne: The Blue Lenses
Hurst, James: The Scarlet Ibis
Jewett,
Sarah Orne: The White Heron
Kipling,
Rudyard: Just So Stories
London,
Jack: To Build a Fire
Munro, Alice: Boys and Girls
Poe,
Edgar Alan: The Black Cat
Novels
Adams, Richard: Watership
Down
Kipling,
Rudyard: Rikki Tikki Tavi
Orwell, George: Animal Farm
Songs
The
Beatles: Piggies
Tunstall,
K. T.: White Bird
Key Concepts and Problems
What do the characters
represent? How can you tell? In what ways are the characters like people? What
is the author saying about people, using the animals as symbols?
Handy Links
Allegory
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
Allegory
in the Middle Ages (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
entry on Symbolism in the Arts
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Literary Perspectives of Growing Up: Coming of Age Tales by Michael Potts (OSU 2016)
Symbolism and Implicating Literacy Devices by Ben Titus (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
Read-Write-Think:
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
Learn
NC: Colors and Symbols of Stigmatization
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for allegorical narratives by teens
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about fables/parables
Political Cartoons
politicalcartoons.com
Daryl Cagle's Pro Cartoonists
Home Page
News
Blaze Political Cartoons
Comics.com
Library of Congress
Political Cartoons
Wikipedia
entry on Political Cartoons
Mythology
Daedalus
and Icarus
Prometheus
Sisyphus
The
Bible
The Members and
the Body (1 Corinthians 12:12 30)
The
Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11 32)
The
Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19 31)
The
Sower (Matthew 13:1 9, 18 23)
Poetry
Blake,
William: The Chimney Sweeper
Eliot,
T. S.: The Hollow Man
Overstreet, Bonaro W.: John Doe, Jr.
Robinson,
Edwin Arlington: Miniver Cheevy
Thomas,
Dylan: The Hand That Signed the Paper
Wordsworth,
William: The Solitary Reaper
Short Stories
Cather,
Willa: The Sentimentality of William Tavener
Cheever, John: The Swimmer
Collier,
John: The Chaser
Connell, Evan, Jr.: The Condor and the Guests
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel: Young Goodman Brown
Lawrence,
D. H.: The Rocking Horse Winner
Poe,
Edgar Allan: The Masque of the Red Death
Novels
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Melville, Herman:
Billy Budd
Drama
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Film
Platoon
Tron
Song
Johnny
Clegg & Savuka: Woman be my Country
Images of Literary Character as Symbol
Key Concepts and Problems
Define
symbol, allegory, and parable. What clues do you have that the characters are
acting as symbols.? What do the characters and elements of the story symbolize?
How do they work together consistently to form a pattern that we can interpret
and draw conclusions from? What is the author trying to say through the symbols
used in the story?
CHARACTERIZING AN AUTHOR'S STYLE
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think: Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore Characterization
and Style
Prose Writers
Faulkner, William: Barn Burning,
stories from Go Down, Moses, Mule in the Yard, Old Man, Red Leaves, A Rose for
Emily, Spotted Horses, That Evening Sun, Wash, selections from The Portable Faulkner
Hemingway, Ernest: Stories from In Our Time, Old Man at the Bridge, The
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber , The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Twain,
Mark: The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life
on the Mississippi, The
Stolen White Elephant, The
Mysterious Stranger, Pudd'nhead
Wilson
Poets
Dickinson,
Emily: Dear March Come in; "Hope" is the thing with feathers; The
Grass so little has to do; What mystery pervades a well!; A Thought went up my
mind today
Frost, Robert:
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, Neither Out Far Nor
In Deep, Desert Places, The Secret Sits
Key Concepts and Problems
What
distinguishes the author in terms of (a) themes, (b) views of society, (c) views
of human nature, (d) sentence structure, (e) language, and (f) literary techniques?
How are these manifested in the writer's literature? How does knowledge of these
features help us understand unfamiliar works by this writer?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on Code-Switching
"Your Average Nigga" by Vershawn Ashanti Young
Five Reasons Why People Code Switch
How Code-Switching Explains the World
Code-Switching
“Code Switching” in Sociocultural Linguistics by
Chad Nilep
The Limitations of Code Switching in Chicano/a Literature by
Margaret Schmidt
Code-switching in US ethnic literature: multiple perspectives presented through multiple languages by
Holly E. Martin
Code-Switching and
Language Ideologies:
Exploring Identity, Power,
and Society in Dialectally
Diverse Literature by Michelle D. Devereaux and Rebecca Wheeler
Multilingual Code-Switching in Montreal Hip-hop:
Mayhem Meets Method
or, “Tout moune qui talk trash kiss mon black ass du
nord” by Mela Sarkar, Lise Winer and Kobir Sarkar
Code Switching in Popular Culture
Flipping the Switch:
Code-Switching
from Text Speak to
Standard English by Kristen Hawley Turner
Online Lesson Plans
from Code-Switching:
Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms by Rebecca S. Wheeler and Rachel Swords
from Code-Switching Lessons: Grammar Strategies for Linguistically Diverse Writers Grades 3-6 by Rebecca S. Wheeler and Rachel Swords
Read-Write-Think: Crossing Boundaries through Bilingual, Spoken Word Poetry by Danielle Berg
Novels
Anan: Mulk Raj: Coolie
de Witt, Helen: The Last Sumarai
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Selvon, Samuel : The Lonely Londoners
Smith, Zadie: White Teeth
Short Stories
Bambara, Toni Cade: The Lesson
Chopin, Kate: Storm
Hurston, Zora Neale : Sweat
Tan, Amy: Mother Tongue
Tonouchi, Lee A.: Da Word
Poetry
Jordan, June: A Poem about Intelligence for my Brothers and Sisters
Drama
Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
Essays
Anzaldua, Gloria: La Frontera; How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Kingston, Maxine Hong: Girlhood among Ghosts
Lyons, Lauren: The Curious Conundrum of the Code-Switching Tokenized Teacher
R.L.G.: How Black to Be?
Young, Vershawn Ashanti: Should Writers Use They Own English?
Video
Key & Peele: Phone Call; White Sounding Black Guys
Eddie Haskell (Leave it to Beaver)
Handy Links:
Connotation,
Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
What
is Poetry?
Figurative
Language
Wikipedia
entry on Color Symbolism and Psychology
Selecting
Images
Powerful
Imagery
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Read-Write-Think:
Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Mini-Lesson
Read-Write-Think:
Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora’s Poem “Echoes”
Read-Write-Think:
Cooking Up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus
Read-Write-Think:
She Did What? Revising for Connotation
Poetry Connotation
Davis,
Frank Marshall: Four Glimpses of Night
Hughes,
Ted: Wind
Jarrell, Randall: Bats
Owen,
Wilfred: Arms and the Boy
Robinson,
Edwin Arlington: Richard Cory
Shapiro, Karl: The
Fly, Auto Wreck
Smith, Stevie: Zoo
Wilbur, Richard: Still
Citizen Sparrow, A
Fire-truck
Poetry Imagery
Browning,
Robert: Meeting at Night
Grenelle, Lisa: It Was Cold in the House
Hayden, Robert:
Those Winter Sundays
Housman,
A. E.: On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank
Keats,
John: To Autumn
Rich,
Adrienne: Living in Sin
Sarton, May: A Parrot
Sassoon,
Siegfried: The Rear Guard
Shelley,
Percy Bysshe: Lines: When the Lamp Is Shattered
Thwaites, Michael: The
Gull
Key Concepts and Problems
Connotation
Which words in the poem
are especially vivid? Why do they have exceptional impact? Are the connotative
words consistent? That is, do they work together to convey a sense of harshness,
a sense of gentleness, or another particular feeling? How can readers use their
imagination to picture more about the poem and its subject from these connotative
words? How do the connotative words help the poet convey meaning?
Imagery
Which words in the poem convey an image? Are the images consistent, working together
to portray a particular mood or feeling? How can readers use their imagination
to picture more about the poem and its subjects from these images? How do the
images help the poet convey meaning?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on
Critical Thinking
The Critical Thinking Community
CriticalThinking.net
An Introduction to
Critical Thinking
What is Critical
Thinking?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Critical
Thinking (2009) by Brian Kraby
Understanding
and Analyzing Theme (2009) by Sara Madden
FAKE NEWS, REAL NEWS, AND MEDIA LITERACY
The News Literacy Project takes on �fake� news � and business is better than everOther Sources
Doing Critical Literacy by Hilary Janks
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
Errol Morris Believing is Seeing
Kathleen Hall Jamieson's Unspun
Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show, Geoffrey Nunberg
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
Why Our Brains Love Fake News
Critical Essays
Mainstream Media, Not Fake News, Spawned Trumplandia
When Fake Is Real and Real Is Fake: More on Crossing the Bigfoot Line
Fair and Balanced Education and Journalism: On the Death of Democracy
Adichie's "danger of a single story" and the Rise of Post-Truth Trumplandia
U.S. and Education Reform Need a Critical Free Press
For the ‘new yellow journalists,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks
Online Lesson Plans
The Moves of Argument in Social Media
NY Times Learning Blogs Skills and Strategies, Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the reliability of sources
http://www.newseum.org/
The News Literacy Project takes on �fake� news � and business is better than ever
https://ed.ted.com/
Massachusetts teacher made list of false clickbaity websites. You'll never guess what happened next
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Source
Readwritethink: Hoax Strategies Online
PBS: Teachers' media literacy: Getting started
PBS: Satire' role in current events (lesson plan)/
Believe it or not
Fake news lesson plan
4 Lesson Plans for Teaching Students to Evaluate Websites
Media Literacy: Getting Started
Believe it or Not
Is This Story Share-Worthy? Flowchart
Fighting Fake News: How to Outsmart Trolls and Troublemakers
E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News
Evidence: Do the Facts Hold Up?
Source: Can I Trust the Creator?
The Media Literacy Maven
Believe It or Not? When the News Media Make Mistakes
Media Ethics: Scenarios
Media Ethics: Anonymous Sources in Our Daily News
Watergate: 'Deep Throat' and Anonymous Sources
The Tools to Persuade
Use 'War of the Worlds' to Teach Media Literacy
Media Ethics: Journalists' Code of Ethics
Evaluating Sources to Write an International Policy Brief
Drama
Arthur Miller: The Crucible
Film
Good Night and Good Luck
Shattered Glass
Documentary Film
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Key Concepts and Problems
How can I verify the truth value of what I hear through the media? How can I tell a legitimate news source from a fabricated news outlet? How can I distinguish between information and opinion when media sources often conflate them? What are journalistic ethics, and how can I tell when they have been applied to produce news? How does my own political and ideological perspective shape how I digest information I get from media in terms of telling me what I want to hear and shielding me from what I don't?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Irony
Wikipedia
entry on Unreliable Narrators
Irony
Irony and Imagination:
Romantic Revolutions in Literature, Music, Art, and Thought
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Literary Perspectives of Growing Up: Coming of Age Tales by Michael Potts (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson
Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of All Quiet on the Western Front
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Satire with The Simpsons
Learn
NC: How Ironic!
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about irony
Note: The approach to studying irony
is adapted from the work of Wayne Booth and Michael
W. Smith (see in particular Smith, 1991).
CLUE 1 Straightforward Warning
in Author's Own Voice
Barry, Dave: God Needs the Money
Breathed, Berke:
Bloom County cartoons
Clegg,
Johnny: The Revolution Will Eat Its Children
cummings,
e. e.: the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
Larson, Gary:
The Far Side cartoons
Nemerov,
Howard: Santa Claus
Royko, Mike: Silence Is the Best Sport
Simon,
Paul: The Dangling Conversation
Twain,
Mark: My Watch
CLUE 2 Known Error Proclaimed
Baker, Russell: Addals
of Medicid
Barenaked
Ladies: Grade 9
Barry, Dave: What Is and Ain't Grammatical; Great Baby!
Delicious!
Benchley, Robert: Whoa!; French for Americans
Buchwald, Art:
Fresh Air Will Kill You
Perelman, S. J.: Waiting for Santa
CLUE
3 Conflict of Facts Within the Work
Barenaked
Ladies: The Old Apartment
Capek,
Karel: The Last Judgment
cummings,
e. e.: i sing of Olaf, glad and big
Daudet,
Alphonse: The Death of the Dauphin
Gardner,
Mona: The Dinner Party
Hardy, Thomas: The
Man He Killed, Satires
of Circumstance
Henry,
O.: The Ransom of Red Chief
Kerr, Orpheus C.: The Latest Improvements
in Artillery
Lowell,
Amy: Fireworks
Madgett, Naomi Long: The Mother
Saki:
The Interlopers
Shelley,
Percy Bysshe: Ozymandias
Smith, Stevie: The Zoo
CLUE 4 Conflict
of Style
Barenaked
Ladies: Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel
Hubbard, Kim:
A Letter from the Front
Lehrer,
Tom: Fight Fiercely, Harvard
Locke,
David Ross: Nasby Shows Why He Should Not Be Drafted
Marquis,
Don: warty bliggins, the toad
Mull, Martin: Straight Talk About the Blues/Ukulele
Blues
Parker,
Dorothy: From the Diary of a New York Lady
Twain,
Mark: Unspoken War Prayer
CLUE 5 Clash of Beliefs
Barenaked
Ladies: Who Needs Sleep?
Barry, Dave: God Needs the Money
Buchwald,
Art: Is Your City Worth Saving?
Clough,
Arthur Hugh: The Latest Decalogue
Franklin, Ben: The Sale of the Hessians
Newman, Randy: Short
People, Political Science
Olson, Elder: Plot Improbable, Character Unsympathetic
Paxton,
Tom: What Did You Learn in School Today?
Royko, Mike: A Great Fish, the
Bullhead
Springsteen,
Bruce: Nebraska
Swift,
Jonathan: A Modest Proposal
Overall Review of Irony
Barenaked
Ladies: Alcohol
Blume, Judy: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Heller,
Joseph: Catch 22
Kubrick, Stanley: Dr. Strangelove
The
Onion
Rice, Anne: Interview with the Vampire
Shepherd, Jean: In God
We Trust, All Others Pay Cash
Swift,
Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Twain,
Mark: Huckleberry Finn
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.: Slaughterhouse Five
Wells,
H. G.: The War of the Worlds
Wibberley, Leonard: The Mouse That Roared
Zindel, Paul: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds
Key Concepts and Problems
There are five clues for recognizing
irony [identified by Wayne Booth, and listed above]. Does this work include one
or more of these clues? If so, when we reject the surface meaning of the piece,
what is the author really saying?
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Developing
a Speaker's Voice, Stating Opinions and Making Argumentative Points through
Persuasive Writing (2011) by Linda Dale Carter
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Read-Write-Think:
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing
Read-Write-Think:
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Words through Diamante Poetry
Read-Write-Think:
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments
Read-Write-Think:
Giving Voice to Students Through “This I Believe” Podcasts
Read-Write-Think:
In Literature, Interpretation is the Thing
Read-Write-Think:
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
Read-Write-Think:
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion with Nothing But The Truth
Read-Write-Think:
Persuasive Essay: Environmental Issues
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Persuasive Voice: Communication as a Resolution
to the Cold War
Learn NC:
How do I look to you?
Learn
NC: Uncovering Assumptions through Critical Writing
Learn
NC: Hidden Persuaders
Learn
NC: Join Up
Learn NC: Jonathan
Edwards and the art of persuasion
Poetry
Hopkins,
Gerard Manley: Pied Beauty
Marvell,
Andrew: To His Coy Mistress
Shakespeare,
William: Sonnets
Yeats,
William Butler: The Second Coming
Short Stories
Babel, Iaac: Gedali,
The Story of My Dovecote
Gogol,
Nikolai: The Overcoat
Hemingway,
Ernest: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Joyce,
James: The Dead
Lawrence,
D. H.: The Prussian Officer
Roth, Philip: The Conversion of the Jews
Tolstoy,
Leo: Where Love Is, God Is
Updike, John: Pigeon Feathers
Novels
Camus, Albert: The Stranger
James, Henry: Daisy
Miller, What
Maisie Knew
Joyce,
James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Swift,
Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Nonfiction (Essay)
Swift,
Jonathan: A Modest Proposal
Key Concepts and Problems
What philosophical ideas
and attitudes toward life does the author seem to hold? What does the author seem
to value most dearly? How does the author present his or her personal values,
attitudes, and philosophical ideas in the work? What does the writer do to persuade
the reader to agree with these ideas and attitudes? Is the writer rhetorically
persuasive? Why or why not? What is the range of rhetorical techniques -overt
and covert--that a writer may use to persuade a reader that his or her personal
values, attitudes, or philosophical ideas are right or worthy of serious consideration?
Handy links:
Wikipedia
entry on Point of View (Literature)
Exploring
Point of View
A Point of View
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Perception
versus Reality: And the greatness of Gatsby (2009) by Sunny Vidrine
Narrator
Bias with Swift and Chaucer (2010) by Megan Blakely & Lane Trompeter
Poetry
Browning, Robert: Porphyria's
Lover, My Last Duchess
The
Dream of the Rood
Swinburne, A. C.: The Leper
Short Stories
Greenburg, Dan:
Catch Her in the Oatmeal
Helprin, Mark: Letters from the Samantha
James, Henry: A Bundle of Letters
Malamud, Bernard: The Prison
Parker, Dorothy: But the One on the
Right
Petrakis, Harry Mark: The Journal of a Wife Beater
Poe,
Edgar Allan: The Fall of the House of Usher
Updike,
John: A & P
Novels
Anderson, M. T.: The Astonishing Life of
Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party; The Astonishing
Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the
Waves
Dorris, Michael: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Erdrich, Louise: The
Beet Queen
Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
Gardner, John: Grendel
Oz, Amos: Black Box
Twain,
Mark: Huckleberry Finn
Key Concepts and Problems
How old is the narrator?
How does this affect his or her reliability? How smart is the narrator? How does
this affect his or her reliability? What is the narrator's socio economic status?
How does this affect his or her reliability? What are the narrator's values and
beliefs? How does this affect his or her reliability? What is the narrator's purpose
in telling the story? How is the narrator's knowledge about the other characters
limited? Is there testimony or action that conflicts with the narrator's version
of events and people? If there is more than one narrator, which one is most reliable?
Why? Is there significant distance (emotional, intellectual, psychological, moral)
between the reader and the narrator? Explain. How does the reliability of the
narrator affect our understanding of a story? How does the narrator's involvement
influence the impact of the story?
Online
Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
Read-Write-Think:
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction Strategies
Read-Write-Think:
Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in Dramatic Tragedy
Read-Write-Think:
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel’s Night
Read-Write-Think:
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”
Read-Write-Think:
Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using Chapter Titles
Read-Write-Think:
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel’s Night
Handy Links:
Empowering Adolescents
to be Smart Consumers of Information: Advertisements and News
Media Messages,
Tactics, and Their Effect on Youth
Wikipedia entry on Propaganda
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Prose,
Politics, Persuasion, and Propaganda: A Look at Society Through Literature (FSU)
by Jacob E. Asbell
Literary Perspectives of Growing Up: Coming of Age Tales by Michael Potts (OSU 2016)
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters
Read-Write-Think:
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Novels
DeVries, Peter: Witch's Milk
Lessing, Doris: Documents Relating to the
Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
Orwell, George: 1984, Animal Farm
Nonfiction
Gold, Philip: Advertising, Politics, and the American Culture
Jowett,
Garth S., and Victoria O'Donnell: Propaganda and Persuasion
Hawthorn,
Jeremy (ed.): Propaganda, Persuasion, and Polemic
Orwell,
George: Writers and the Leviathan
Rank,
Hugh: Analyzing Persuasion: 10 Teaching Aids
Films
The Manchurian
Candidate
Triumph of the Will
Key Concepts and Problems
What are the characteristics
of propaganda? How can we recognize it? What distinguishes propaganda from other
forms of persuasion?
Handy Links:
David Crystal - Texts and
Tweets: myths and realities
Text poetry
competition
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Looking at Our Past and Our Present through
Our Future: Expanding and Interpreting Text (2007) by Carrie Greynolds
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Read-Write-Think:
Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Read-Write-Think:
Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
Read-Write-Think:
Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
IDEAS
and Ryan Anderson: Ad Dissection 101: Exposing Media Manipulation
Tattoo
Databases
Tattoo
Images
The Facebook Book by Atwan & Lushing
Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers by Maasik & Solomon
All Talk
A Tweet and a Poke
Documentary Film
Catfish
BRITISH AESTHETICISM AND DECADENCE
Handy Links:
Decadents
and Aesthetes
Aesthetes
and Decadents of the 1890s -- Points of Departure
Decadence,
Aestheticism, and The Rise of Modernism
Fashion
History of The Aesthetic Dress Movement
Decadence
Baudelaire, Charles. Les fleurs du mal
Beardsley, The Story
of Venus and Tannhäuser (1896)
Beerbohm, Max. "A Defence of Cosmetics."
Beerbohm, Max. The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson. 1911 ed. New Haven, CT: Yale
UP, 2002
Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
Douglas, Lord Alfred. "Two Loves"
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The
Sign of the Four
Du Maurier, George. Trilby
Eliza Lynn Linton, The Rebel
of the Family
Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835)
Gilbert, William,
and Arthur Sullivan. Patience
Huysmans, J.-K. Against Nature
James,
"The Author of Beltraffio"
James, Henry. "The Turn of the
Screw"
James, The Tragic Muse
Johnson, Lionel. "A Decadent's
Lyric"
Lang, Andrew. "Realism and Romance"
Lee, Vernon
(Violet Paget). Vanitas: Polite Stories
Mann, Thomas. "Tonio Kröger"
Pater, Walter. The Renaissance
Pinero, Arthur W. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
Punch caricatures
Rimbaud, Arthur. Une saison en enfer
Stutfield,
Hugh. "Tommyrotics"
Symons, Arthur. "The Decadent Movement
in Literature"
Walter Besant, Eliza Lynn Linton, Thomas Hardy, "Candour
in English Fiction"
Wilde, Oscar. "Pen, Pencil and Poison"
Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist"
Wilde, Oscar. "The
Canterville Ghost", "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime"
Wilde, Oscar.
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar. Salome
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance
of Being Earnest
BRITISH AGE OF SENSIBILITY (OR AGE OF [SAMUEL] JOHNSON) (1740-1780)
Handy Links:
The
Age of Johnson Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
The
Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson By Jack Lynch
The
Age of Johnson (1740-1780)
Brief
Biography: The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
Blake,
William
Boswell,
James
Burke,
Edmond
Burney, Frances
Burns, Robert
Cowley,
Hannah
Cowper, William
Crabbe,
George
Edgeworth,
Maria
Garrick, David
Gibbon, Edward
Goldsmith,
Oliver
Gray, Thomas
Hume, David
Johnson,
Samuel
Piozzi,
Hesther Lynch
Reynolds,
Joshua
Sheridan,
Richard Brinsley
Thomson,
James
Walpole,
Horace
Wollstonecraft,
Mary
BRITISH AUGUSTAN AGE (OR AGE OF [ALEXANDER] POPE) (1700-1745)
Handy Links:
The Augustan Age
Wikipedia
entry on Augustan Poetry
Wikipedia
entry on Augustan Literature
Defoe,
Daniel
Pope,
Alexander
Richardson,
Samuel
Swift, Jonathan
BRITISH CAROLINE AGE (1625-1649)
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Caroline Age
Browne,
Sir Thomas
Burton,
Robert
Carew, Thomas
Herbert, George
Herrick, Robert
Lovelace, Richard
Milton, John (early works)
Suckling, Sir
John
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH PERIOD (OR PURITAN INTERREGNUM) (1649-1660)
Wikipedia entry on the English Interregnum
Browne,
Sir Thomas
Hobbes,
Thomas
Marvell,
Andrew
Milton,
John
BRITISH EDWARDIAN PERIOD (1901-1914)
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry on
the Edwardian Period
The
Mood of Edwardian Society
Fashion
in the Edwardian Era
Conrad,
Joseph
Forster, E.
M.
James, Henry
Kipling, Rudyard
Shaw,
George Bernard
Wells,
H. G.
Yeats, William
Butler
Handy Links:
Art,
Literature, and Music of the Elizabethan Era
The
Tudors and the Elizabethan Age
Wikipedia
entry on the Elizabethan Era
Elizabethan
Age
The
Elizabethan Age of English Literature
Johnson,
Ben
Marlowe, Christopher
Milton, John
Shakespeare,
William
Spenser,
Edmund
BRITISH MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (1350-1485)
Handy Links:
MSN
Encarta entry on Middle English Literature
Wikipedia
entry on Middle English
Middle
English and Early Renaissance Periods: Historical and Cultural Outline
The
Middle English Grammar Project
The
Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages
Anthology
of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
DMOZ
Renaissance
Anonymous/"The Pearl Poet": Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness
Chaucer,
Geoffrey
Langland,
William
Mallory,
Sir Thomas
Rolle,
Richard
Wycliffe,
John
BRITISH MODERN PERIOD (1914-present)
Handy Links:
The
Modern British Literature Index
Modern
British Literature: Writers and Works of Primary Importance
Literary
Resources — Twentieth-Century British, Irish, and Commonwealth
20th
Century Literature Links
Beckett,
Samuel
Coward, Noël
Eliot, T. S.
Heaney,
Seamus
James,
Henry
James, William
Joyce, James
Lawrence,
D. H.
Thomas,
Dylan
Woolf,
Virginia
Yeats, William
Butler
BRITISH NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD (1660-1785)
Handy Links:
Eighteenth
Century British Neoclassical Period: 1700 – 1798
Introductory
Lecture on the Neoclassical Period in English Literature
Encyclopedia
Britannica entry on Neoclassicism (arts)
Addison,
Joseph
Pope,
Alexander
Steele, Sir Richard
Swift,
Jonathan
BRITISH OLD ENGLISH (OR ANGLO-SAXON) PERIOD (early 400s-1066)
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on the Anglo-Saxons
Wikipedia entry
on Anglo-Saxon Literature
Britannia History: Anglo-Saxon
Period
Anglo-Saxon
Period
Anglo-Saxons.net:
Literature
The Anglo-Saxon Home
Page
Medieval
and Anglo-Saxon Links
DMOZ
Medieval
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Beowulf
(2009) by Geoffrey Adams
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
Alfred and
the Old English Prose of his Reign
The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Bede
Beowulf
Caedmon
Cynewulf
BRITISH RENAISSANCE (1485-1660)
Handy
Links:
16th Century Renaissance
English Literature
17th
Century and Renaissance Links
Voices
of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th Century
English
Renaissance Drama
Religious
Writers of the English Renaissance (1485-1660)
16th
Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
English
Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
BRITISH RESTORATION (1660-1700)
Handy
Links:
18th
Century and Restoration Links
Wikipedia
entry on Restoration Literature
Restoration
and Eighteenth Century English Literature Index
Voice
of the Shuttle: Restoration and 18th Century
The
Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the 18th Century
English
Literature: Restoration and 18th Century (1660-1785)
Dryden,
John
Locke,
John
Milton, John
Wilmot,
John
BRITISH ROMANTIC PERIOD (late 1700s-1832)
Handy Links:
19th
Century Romantic and Victorian Links
SAC
LitWeb: The Romantic Movement in British Literature
Literary
Resources: Romantic
Voice
of the Shuttle: Romantics
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Responsibility of the Creator to his Creation (2001)
by Sarah Mann
Austen, Jane
Chatterton, Thomas
Coleridge, Samuel
Taylor
Gordon, George (Lord
Byron)
Keats, John
Radcliffe, Ann
Shelly, Mary
Shelly, Percy Bysshe
Wordsworth, William
Back
to Top
BRITISH VICTORIAN PERIOD
Handy links:
Wikipedia entry on the
Victorian Era
Victorian Literature Overview
Literature of
the Victorian Period
Victorian Literature--Directory
of Online Resources
The Victorian Literature
Website
19th Century
Romantic and Victorian Links
Victorian Websites
The
Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age
DMOZ
Victorian
An
Online Dating Guide to Courting in the Victorian Era
Understanding English and Italian Sonnet Forms
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
Poetry
Arnold,
Matthew: Dover Beach
Bronte,
Emily: The Night Wind
Browning,
Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning,
Robert: My Last Duchess
Rossetti,
Christina: By the Sea
Rossetti,
Dante Gabriel: The Blessed Damozel
Meredith,
George: Modern Love
Morris,
William: The Earthly Paradise
Swinburne,
Algernon Charles: Atalanta in Calydon
Tennyson,
Alfred: Ulysses
Short Stories
Eliot,
George: The Lifted Veil
Novels
Bronte,
Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte,
Emily: Wuthering Heights
Dickens, Charles: Oliver
Twist, Hard
Times
Eliot,
George: Middlemarch
Meredith,
George: The Egoist
Nonfiction (Essays)
Carlyle,
Thomas: The French Revolution
Huxley,
Thomas Henry: A Liberal Education
Mill,
John Stuart: What Is Poetry?
Newman,
John Henry Cardinal: The Idea of a University
Pater,
Walter: The Renaissance
Key Concepts and Problems
What literary precedents
led to the Victorian Age? What historical events separated the Victorians from
the Romantics? What distinguishes the Victorians from other British writers in
terms of (a) style and (b) themes?
CLASSIC GREEK PERIOD (800-200 BCE)
Aesop
Aristotle
Euripides
Plato
Socrates
Sophocles
CLASSIC HOMERIC or HEROIC PERIOD (1200-800 BCE)
Online Lesson Plans
Weaving
the Old into the New: Pairing The Odyssey with Contemporary Works
CLASSIC PATRISTIC PERIOD (c. 70 CE-455 CE)
Saint Ambrose
Saint Augustine
Saint Cyprian
Saint
Jerome
Tertullian
CLASSIC ROMAN PERIOD (200 BCE-455 CE)
Cicero
Horace
Lucretius
Marcus
Aurelius
Ovid
Quintilian
Virgil
Handy
Links:
Bibliography:
The Beat Generation
Gordon
Ball's Beat Generation Home Page
The
Beat Generation and the Sixties: a guide to web resources
Beat
Generation Authors
DMOZ
Beat Writers
Burroughs,
William
Ginsberg,
Allen
Kerouac, Jack
U.S. COLONIAL PERIOD (1600-1776)
Handy Links:
Colonial
America 1600-1775 K-12 Resources
Outline
of American Literature: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
Free
Books: U.S. Colonial Period
The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Colonial and Revolutionary
Literature
Early
American and Colonial Period to 1776
The
American Spirit in Literature: The Pioneers
The
American Spirit in Literature: The First Colonial Literature
Bradstreet,
Anne
Mather, Cotton
Winthrop, John
U.S. CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1939-present)
Handy Links:
Contemporary
Period: 1945 to the Present
Contemporary
American Literature
Angelou,
Maya
Brautigan,
Richard
Brooks,
Gwendolyn
Ellison,
Ralph
Hurston,
Zora Neal
Madhubuti,
Haki
Morrison, Toni
Miller, Arthur
Plath,
Sylvia
Updike, John
Vonnegut, Kurt
Walker,
Alice
Welty, Eudora
Williams, Tennessee
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry
on Counterculture
Counterculture
Counterculture and
Literature
The
Psychedelic 60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change
Handy
Links:
The Cambridge History
of English and American Literature: Early National Literature Part I
The
Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection: American: 1783-1865
San Antonio College
LitWeb American Literature I Index From Earliest Times To 1865
The
American Spirit in Literature: The Knickerbocker Group
The
American Spirit in Literature: Poe and Whitman
Cooper,
James Fenimore
Irving,
Washington
Poe, Edgar
Allan
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Harlem Renaissance
MSN
Encarta entry on the Harlem Renaissance
Father
Ryan entry on the Harlem Renaissance
42Explore
Pages on the Harlem Renaissance
Library
of Congress Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
DMOZ
Harlem Renaissance
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Bridging
the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Movement (2003) by Kristy Mulkey &
Kasha Wharton
Working
Against Mainstream Culture: The Voices of Two Female African American Authors
from The Harlem Renaissance to the Present (2005) by Sarah Segrest
Their
Eyes were watching Harlem (FSU 2011) by Kaitlin Donahue
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance, and Poetry
Learn NC: A renaissance of jazz
and poetry
Images of the Harlem Renaissance
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Jazz Age
Jazz
Age Culture: The Flapper Era and Harlem Renaissance
Jazz
Age Writers
The
Jazz Age
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on the
Lost Generation
Britannica
Encyclopedia Online entry on the Lost Generation
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
A
Generation Lost? Exploring the 1920’s through the Eyes of The Lost Generation
(FSU) by Marah Dolan
Eliot,
T. S.
Hemingway,
Ernest
Pound, Ezra
Stein, Gertrude
U.S. MODERNIST PERIOD (1914-1939)
Handy Links:
Modern
Period: 1910-1945
Bauhaus
Period and Modern Deco
The
Essentials of Literature in English Post-1914
Modernism and Experimentation:
1914-1945
DMOZ
World War I
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Modernism
Unit: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot (2009) by Anne Krache
Cather, Willa
cummings,
e. e.
Frost, Robert
Lewis,
Sinclair
Millay,
Edna St. Vincent
Wharton,
Edith
Williams,
William Carlos
U.S. REVOLUTIONARY AGE (1765-1790)
Handy Links:
The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Colonial and Revolutionary
Literature
Democratic
Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820
Age
of Revolution: The Founding Fathers and Slavery
The
American Spirit in Literature: The Revolution
Franklin,
Benjamin
Hamilton,
Alexander
Henry,
Patrick
Jay,
John
Jefferson,
Thomas
Madison, James
Paine, Thomas
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Amatory Fiction
Seductive
Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740 By Ros Ballaster
From
Passion to Suffering: Richardson and the Transformation of Amatory Fiction
Sex,
Lies, and Invisibility: Amatory Fiction from the Restoration to Mid-Century
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Augustan Literature
A
brief guide to the Augustans
Sensibility
in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the
Romantics
Augustans
Genealogy and Family Resources
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia
Entry on the Black Arts Movement
African
American Literature Book Club: Black Arts Movement
Historical
Overviews of the Black Arts Movement
Perceptions
of Black
The
Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Black Mountain Poets
The
Black Mountain Poets
A
Brief Guide to the Black Mountain School
Rebel
Poets of the 1950s
Literary
Encyclopedia entry on Black Mountain Poets
Handy Links:
DMOZ
Bloomsbury Group
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Cavalier Poets
17th
Century English Literature: Cavalier Poets
The
Cavalier Poets: An Anthology by Thomas Crofts
Back
to Top
CHICAGO RENAISSANCE
Handy Links:
Chicago
Literary Renaissance
Chicago
Black Renaissance
Review
of he Chicago Black Renaissance and Women’s Activism
Back
to Top
CONFESSIONAL POETRY
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Confessional Poets
A
Brief Guide to Confessional Poetry
Confessional
Poetry and the Artifice of Honesty
Writing
Confessional Poetry
Confessional
Poetry
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry on Dada
Dada
Dada
Online
International Dada Archive
BMOZ
Dadaism
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Dark Romanticism
What
is Dark Romanticism?
Dark
Romanticism: Byron, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and the Pursuit of the Supernatural
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Responsibility of the Creator to his Creation (2001)
by Sarah Mann
Handy Links:
DMOZ
Enlightenment
Handy
Links:
W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center
Wikipedia entry on Jean
Paul Sartre
The Existential
Primer
Wikipedia
Entry on Existentialism
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Existentialism
Existentialism
DMOZ
Existentialism
Existentialist Music Lyrics in Popular Songs
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
What
is The Meaning of All This? A Unit on Existential Thought in Literature by Kevin
Craig
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Imagism
A
Brief Guide to Imagism
Before
Imagism: "Genteel" Poetry
Imagism
Fanlisting
On
Lowell, Pound, and Imagism
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Lost Generation
The
Lost Generation: American Writers of the 1920s
The
Lost Generation and After
Peace
Corps Writers and the Lost Generation
DMOZ
Lost Generation
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Magical Realism
Magical
Realism
The way
my grandmother used to tell stories: Magical Realism
Magical
Realism: Definitions
The
Magical Realism Page
Magical
Realism on the Web: Links Galore
DMOZ
Magical Realism
Online Lesson Plans
Learn
NC: Do you "Really" Believe in Magic?
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the Metaphysical Poets
17th
Century English Literature: Metaphysical Poets
Studying
the Metaphysical Poets
A
Brief Guide to Metaphysical Poets
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography: Metaphysical Poets
Online
Lesson Plans
When
Less IS More—Understanding Minimalist Fiction
Back
to Top
MODERNISM
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on Modernism
Modernism and Experimentation:
1914-1945
Modernism
Modernism by Christopher L. C. E.
Witcombe
Modernism Gallery
DMOZ
Modernism
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Naturalism (Literature)
Naturalism
in American Literature
Naturalism
DMOZ
Naturalism
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
American
Realism and Naturalism (1999) by Julie Waters
Short Stories
Garland,
Handin: selections from Main Travelled Roads
Novels
Bellow, Saul:
The Adventures of Augie March
Chopin, Kate: The
Awakening
Dos Passos, John: U.S.A. trilogy, The 42nd Parallel, The Big
Money
Farrell, James T.: Studs Lonigan Trilogy
Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street
Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead
Norris,
Frank: McTeague
Sinclair,
Upton: The Jungle
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Styron, William:
Lie Down in Darkness
Wharton,
Edith: Ethan Frome
Wright, Richard: Native Son, Black Boy
Images
of Naturalism
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on the New York School
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry on
Nihilism
Internet Encyclopedia
of Philosophy entry on Nihilism
Nihilism
Home Page
Center for Nihilist and Nihilism
Studies
The Catholic
Encyclopedia entry on Nihilism
American
Nihilist Underground Society
Nihilist
Reading List
Lionel
Johnson "Nihilism" Poem set to music animation
OULIPO (“Ouvroir de littérature potentielle” or “workshop of potential literature”)
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry on Oulipo
Oulipo
Oulipo_Home
The OuLiPo
DMOZ
Oulipo
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry
on Postcolonialism
Themes
in Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Post-Colonialism
Postcolonial Studies
at Emory Web Site
Postcolonial
Literature
Contemporary Postcolonial
and Postimperial Literature in English
George Ramos's Books for Expanding Global Understanding
Online Lesson Plans
Learn
NC: India's path to independence
Novels
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona
The Slum by Aluisio Azevedo
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidwa
Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The River Between by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Golden Child by David Henry Hwang
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
In the Name of Identity by Amin Maalouf
Short Stories
"Spring Storm" by Mori Yoko
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
"The Composition" by Antonio Skarmeta
"An Incident at Lunchtime" by Petina Gappah
"The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield
"Gedali" by Isaac Babel
"Bhakthi in the Water" by Shubha Venugopal
Nonfiction
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
"Myself in India" by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Way to Rainy Mountain by M. Scott Momaday
Dawn by Elie Wiesel
Poetry
"White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling (as a foil)
“The Stranglehold of English Lit.” by Felix Mnthali
“The United Fruit Co.” by Pablo Neruda
"Babii Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“At the Back of Progress …” by Taslima Nasrin
“When evil-doing comes like spring rain" by Bertolt Brecht
"The True Prison" by Ken Saro-Wiwa
"Things I Didn't Know I Loved" by Nazim Hikmet
"Identity Card" by Mahmoud Darwish
"Woman Martyr" by Agi Mishol
"Through the Speckled Land" by Colm Breathnach
"I Am Joaquin" by Rodolfo Gonzalez
"My Country and My People" by Tzu Pheng Lee
"A Far Cry from Africa" and "XXVII" by Derek Walcott
“Bilingual Sestina” by Julia Alvarez
"Telephone Conversation" by Wole Soyinka
“Praying for Wind” by Naomi Shihab Nye
"The War Works Hard" by Dunya Mikhail
"A Far Cry from Africa" by Derek Walcott
Drama
Othello by William Shakespeare
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry
on Postmodernism
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Postmodernism
Post-World
War II American Literature and Culture Database: Postmodernism
Approaches
to Po-Mo
Your Guide
to Postmodernism
Wikipedia
entry on Postmodern Music
Postmodernist
Music: The Culture of "Cool" Vs. Commodity
Making
sense out of postmodern music?
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry
on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The
Pre-Raphaelites
The
Victorian Web Pre-Raphaelite Overview
Links
to Pre-Raphaelite web-sites
The
Pre-Raphaelites photographs exhibition
DMOZ
Pre-Raphaelites
Handy
links:
Realism
in American Literature, 1860-1890
Wikipedia
entry on Realism (Arts)
Realism
in Literature
The
Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
The
American Spirit in Literature: Union and Liberty
The
American Spirit in Literature: A New Nation
DMOZ
Realism
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
American
Realism and Naturalism (1999) by Julie Waters
What America
Means to Me: A Conceptual Unit on American Realism (2002) by Kristen Demaree
Modernism
Unit: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot (2009) by Anne Krache
Poetry
Jewett, Sarah Orne: Collected works
Johnson, James Weldon: Various
works
Lindsay, Vachel: Various
works
Masters, Edgar Lee: Spoon
River Anthology
Robinson, Edwin Arlington: Cliff
Klingenhagen, Miniver Cheevy
Sandburg, Carl: various
works
Short Stories
Anderson,
Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio
Garland, Handin: selections from Main Travelled
Roads
Glasgow, Ellen: Various
works
Harte, Brett: Various
works
Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country
of the Pointed Firs
Novels
Cather,
Willa: The Professor's House
Chestnutt, Charles W.: Various
works
Howells,
William Dean: A Modern Instance
James,
Henry: Daisy Miller
Lewis,
Sinclair: Main Street
Norris,
Frank: McTeague
Sinclair,
Upton: The Jungle
Twain, Mark: Various
works
Wharton,
Edith: Ethan Frome
Autobiography
Washington, Booker T.: Up
from Slavery
Nonfiction
Du Bois, W. E. B.: The
Souls of Black Folk
Images of Realism
Key
Concepts and Problems
What are the characteristics of realism? What historical
influences shaped these forms? How are they different from other literary forms?
How does the literature exemplify these forms? How is naturalism an extreme extension
of realism? What unique types of observations do the forms of realism allow the
authors to make?
Handy Links:
Wikipedia entry on Romanticism
The Romantic Period,
1820-1860: Essayists and Poets
The Romantic Period,
1820-1860: Fiction
The
American Spirit in Literature: Romance, Poetry, and History
DMOZ
Romanticism
Romanticism
on the net
Hudson River School Painters
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Drama
Rado, James, Ragni, Gerome, & MacDermot, Galt: Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot
SOUTHERN AGRARIANS/NEW CRITICS
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Southern Agrarians
Fugitive
Theory: Political Theory, the Southern Agrarians, and America By Christopher M.
Duncan
Wikipedia
entry on New Criticism
New
Criticism
Handy Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Stream of Consciousness Writing
The
Stream of Consciousness by William James (1892)
Stream-of-Consciousness
Tag Info:
Stream of Consciousness
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry on
Surrealism
Surrealism.org
Surrealist.com
Surrealist
Authors
DMOZ
Surrealism
Surreal Music Videos
Surreal music and
audio clips
Surreal Music
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia
entry on Transcendentalism
Transcendentalists
American Transcendentalism
Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy entry on Transcendentalism
The
American Spirit in Literature: The Transcendentalists
DMOZ
Transcendentalism
Images
of Transcendentalism
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
Handy Links:
Reading the New South
A
Sense of Place: Defining and Personalizing the Affective Dimension of History,
Culture, and Bioregionalism in American Literature
"I
am New Mexican:" A Celebration of NM Culture
A
Sense of Place
Language of
the Land: Journeys into Literary America
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Georgia
Writers (1998) by David Francis & Mark Dowdy
A
Sense of Place (1998) by Elizabeth Williams, Derek Shackelford, Holly Phillips,
Kevin Mullally
A Sense
of Home (2004) by Jamie Jordan
There’s
No Place Like Home: Discovering Our American Home Identity (2009) by Hannah
Hodges
Identity
in Southern Literature (2010) by Ansley Deese, Julie Kristin, & Amber Higginbotham
Irish
Literature and Culture (FSU) by Samuel Berkowitz
Theories of Time and Space”:
Finding Identity Through Place (2013) by Tyler Goodson
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Twentieth Century Latin American Writing
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Reading and Writing the City
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Regions and Regionalism in the United States: Studies
in the History andCultures of the South, The Northeast and the American Southwest
Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute: The Autobiographical Mode in Latin American Literature
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: American Communities, 1880-1980
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Society and Literature in Latin America
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The "City" in American Literature and Culture
Learn NC: Descriptive Writing Using
Landscape Scenes
Learn
NC: Interpreting Diaries of the American South
Learn
NC: Mountain dialect: Reading between the spoken lines
Learn
NC: Understanding the Complexities of Setting
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Life on the Great Plains
Writing by Teenagers
Merlyn's Pen search engine for writing by teens about city life/urban life
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about farms/rural life
Merlyn's
Pen search engine
for writing by teens about small towns
Poetry
Crane,
Stephen: A Man Said to the Universe
Eliot, T. S.: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Lanier,
Sidney: Song of the Chattahoochee
Whitman,
Walt: I Hear America Singing
Short Story
Hemingway, Ernest: A Soldier's
Home
Hinojosa-Smith, Rolando: This Writer's Sense of Place
Hogan, Linda:
Amen
Smith, Patricia Clark: Flute Song
Novel
Cisneros, Sandra: The House on Mango Street
Farrell, James: Studs Lonigan trilogy
Faulkner, William: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kimmel, Haven: A Girl Named Zippy
McNickle, D'Arcy: Wind from an Enemy Sky
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
Momaday, N. Scott: The Way to Rainy Mountain
Mourning Dove: Cogewea: The Half-Blood
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Autobiography
Blackmarr, Amy: House of Steps: Adventures of a Southerner in Kansas
May,
Lee: In My Father's Garden
Nonfiction
Algren,
Nelson: Chicago : City on the Make
Irving,
Washington: A Tour on the Prairie
Kotlowitz, Alex: There Are No Children
Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Mitchell, Joseph:
Up in the Old Hotel
Royko, Mike: One More Time : The Best of Mike Royko
Terkel, Studs: Chicago
Walker,
Alice: Everyday Use
Song
America the Beautiful
Jackson, Alan: Home, Chattahoochie
Keb Mo: More than One Way
Home
Little
Feat: Oh Atlanta
Loudermilk,
John D: Tobacco Road
Lovett, Lyle: South Texas
Girl
The Packway Handle Band: Totz, Kentucky
Pizzarelli, John: I Like
Jersey Best
Rogers
and Hammerstein: Oklahoma!
The
Smashing Pumpkins: Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Joe
South: Don't it Make you Want to Go Home
Taylor, James: Copperline, Carolina
in my Mind
Weatherly,
James: Midnight Train to Georgia
Yoakam,
Dwight: Readin', Writin' and Route 23
See http://inquiryunlimited.org/x1/etoc/usa_songsusa.html for many additional songs of places
Film
Boyz in the Hood
The Horse
Whisperer
Key Concepts and Problems
In what ways does
the author use images (including all five senses) to characterize the place? What
emotions is the author trying to evoke through the senses? What attitudes is the
author trying to create toward the place? How successful is the author in evoking
emotions and attitudes for people who know the place, and for people who don't?
What is the overall effect of the work in creating a sense of place?
Handy
Links:
Wikipedia entry on
the British Lake Poets
THE
LAKES OF THE LAKE POETS: Poets Who Have Visited and Described Them, from Gray
to Wordsworth
The
Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets By Dennis Low
The
Lake District
Video
Appalachia
Phonology
- English in North America I
Phonology
- English in North America II
American
Tongues Tease
Pidgin:
The Voice of Hawaii
Hawaii
Pidgin The Voice of Hawaii
Audio
American
English Dialict Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection
LITERATURE, MUSIC, IMAGES, AND TASTES OF THE U.S. STATES
Note: Additional free images are available at http://www.canstockphoto.com/
State, Regional, and Ethnic
Foods
State Foods
American
Regional Foods and Cooking
American
Recipes & History by Region
Cookbook:Cuisine
of the United States
Cuisine
of the United States
Alabama
Authors of Alabama
Alabama
Authors and their Works
Music of Alabama
Alabama Stock
Photos and Images
Alabama Arts
Images of Alabama
Alaska
Alaskan
Authors
Authors and Writers in Alaska
Alaska Musicians
Alaska Stock Photos
and Images
Alaskan Art by Alaskan Artists
Images
of Alaska
Arizona
Authors and Writers in Arizona
Arizona Authors Association
Music of Arizona
Arizona Stock
Photos and Images
Arizona Art Guide
Images
of Arizona
Arkansas
Arkansas Writers
Writers in Arkansas
Arkansas
Musicians
Arkansas Stock
Photos and Images
Art Amiss (Fayettville Artists' Collective)
Images
of Arkansas
California
California
Writers
California Authors
California
Musicians
California
Stock Photos and Images
California
Artists
Images
of California
Colorado
Colorado Writers for
Colorado Classrooms
Colorado Authors' League
Colorado
Musicians
Colorado Stock
Photos and Images
Colorado Artists
Images
of Colorado
Connecticut
Authors and Writers in Connecticut
Connecticut Writer's
Corner
Music of Connecticut
Connecticut
Stock Photos and Images
Connecticut
Artists
Images
of Connecticut
Delaware
Authors and Writers
in Delaware
Poets.org: Delaware
Music of Delaware
Delaware Stock
Photos and Images
Delaware Artists
Images
of Delaware
Florida
Forida Writers
Authors and Writers in Florida
Florida Musicians
Florida Stock
Photos and Images
Folkvine: Florida's Art and Artists on the
Web
Images
of Florida
Georgia
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Georgia
Writers (1998) by David Francis & Mark Dowdy
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Georgia
Biography--Authors
Music of
Georgia
Georgia Stock
Photos and Images
Art in
Georgia since 1960: Overview
Images
of Georgia
Hawai'i
Authors and Writers in Hawai'i
Hawai'i
Fiction and Local Writers
Music of Hawai'i
Hawai'i Stock
Photos and Images
Artists of Hawai'i
Images
of Hawai'i
Idaho
Idaho Writers' League
Idaho Writers
Music of Idaho
Idaho Stock Photos
and Images
Idaho Artists on the Web
Images
of Idaho
Illinois
Illinois
Authors
Illinois
Authors
Music of Illinois
Illinois Stock
Photos and Images
Illinois Landscapes
Images
of Illinois
Indiana
Authors and Writers in Indiana
Central
Indiana Writers' Association
Music of Indiana
Indiana Stock
Photos and Images
Hoosier
Artists Instructional Unit
Images
of Indiana
Iowa
Iowa: A Literary Landscape
Iowa Writers
Music of Iowa
Iowa Stock Photos
and Images
Making Art in Iowa
Images
of Iowa
Kansas
Kansas Writers
Contemporary
Kansas Writers
Music of Kansas
Kansas Stock Photos
and Images
Kansas
Geology as Landscape Art: Interpretation of Geology from Artistic Works
Images
of Kansas
Kentucky
KYLIT: A Site Devoted to
Kentucky Writers
Kentucky Writers
Music of Kentucky
Kentucky Stock
Photos and Images
Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen
Images
of Kentucky
Louisiana
Louisiana
Writers
A Sampling of Contemporary
Louisiana Authors
Music of Louisiana
Lousiana Stock
Photos and Images
Ann Warner: A Louisiana Artist
Images
of Louisiana
Maine
Writers of Maine
Maine Writers Index
Music of Maine
Maine Stock Photos
and Images
Mainely Main: Landscape
Paintings from Maine and Beyond
Images
of Maine
Maryland
Famous Marylanders:
Writers, Authors, Journalists, Novelists, Playrights, Poets
Maryland Writers
Music of Maryland
Maryland Stock
Photos and Images
Maryland Art Source
Images
of Maryland
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Writers
Authors and Writers in Massachusetts
Music of Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Stock Photos and Images
Massachusetts
Artists
Images
of Massachusetts
Michigan
Authors and Writers in Michigan
Michigan
Writers Collection
Music of Michigan
Michigan Stock
Photos and Images
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Images
of Michigan
Minnesota
Minnesota
Writers
Authors and Writers in Minnesota
Music of Minnesota
Minnesota Stock
Photos and Images
Minnesota
Art & Artists: A Study in Diversity by Kevan Nitzberg
Images
of Minnesota
Mississippi
The Internet Guide
to Mississippi Writers
Mississippi
Writers
Music of Mississippi
Mississippi
Stock Photos and Images
Mississippi
Artists
Images
of Mississippi
Missouri
Missouri Writers
Missouri Center for the Book
Music of Missouri
Missouri Stock
Photos and Images
Missouri
Posters
Images
of Missouri
Montana
Montana Center for the Book
Montana Writers
Music of Montana
Montana
Stock Photos and Images
Montana
Posters
Images
of Montana
Nebraska
Nebraska Writers
Some
Famous Nebraska Authors
Music of Nebraska
Nebraska Stock
Photos and Images
Nebraska
Posters
Images
of Nebraska
Nevada
Nevada Writers
Hall of Fame
Nevada Writers
Music of Nevada
Nevada Stock Photos
and Images
Nevada
Posters
Images
of Nevada
New Hampshire
New
Hampshire Authors
New Hampshire
Writers
Music of New Hampshire
New Hampshire
Stock Photos and Images
New
Hampshire Posters
Images
of New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Jersey
Writers
NJPoets.com
Music of New Jersey
New Jersey
Stock Photos and Images
New
Jersey Posters
Images
of New Jersey
New Mexico
New Mexico Writers
New Mexico
Writers
Music of New Mexico
New Mexico
Stock Photos and Images
New
Mexico Posters
Images
of New Mexico
New York
New York State Authors
New York Writers
Music of New
York City
New York Stock
Photos and Images
New
York Posters
Images
of New York
North Carolina
North
Carolina Writers
A Guide to Recent
Fiction Set in North Carolina
Music of North
Carolina
North
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Handy Links:
Writing Southern
Fiction
Lovers
and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961 By Gary Richards
Southern
Fiction Prior to 1860: An Attempt at a First-hand Bibliography By James Gibson
Johnson
Race
Mixing: Southern Fiction Since the Sixties By Suzanne Whitmore Jones
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Identity
in Southern Literature (2010) by Ansley Deese, Julie Kristin, & Amber Higginbotham
Style
and the Southern Short Story (2012) by Ellie Adams
Agee,
Jonis: South of Resurrection
Allison, Dorothy: Bastard Out of Carolina
Arnoult, Darnell: Sufficient Grace
Bailey, Tom: Cotton Song
Benoit,
Brent: All Saints' Day
Biguenet, John: Oyster
Black, Daniel: They Tell
Me of a Home
Bradley, John Ed: My Juliet
Brown, John Gregory: Decorations
in a Ruined Cemetery
Brown, Larry: Fay
Brown, Larry: A Miracle of Catfish
Burke, James Lee: Half of Paradise
Burke, James Lee: Lay Down My Sword
and Shield
Burke, James Lee: To the Bright and Shining Sun
Burke, James
Lee: Two for Texas
Caldwell, Erskine: Tobacco Road
Covington, Vicki:
Gathering Home
Covington, Vicki: Night Ride Home
Cox, Elizabeth: The
Slow Moon
Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (edited by
F. Brett Cox & Andy Duncan) Curtiss, Huston: Sins of the Seventh Sister
Daugharty, Janice: Whistle
Davis, Rod: Corina's Way
Dewberry, Elizabeth:
Sacrament of Lies
Dexter, Pete: Paris Trout
Dickson, Athol: River Rising
Downs, Greg: Spit Baths
DuFresne, John: Deep in the Shade of Paradise
DuFresne, John: Louisiana Power and Light
Dunbar, Wylene: Margaret Cape
Durban, Pam: The Laughing Place
Durban, Pam: So Far Back
Durkee,
Lee: Rides of the Midway
Edgerton, Clyde: The Floatplane Notebooks
Edgerton,
Clyde: Killer Diller
Edgerton, Clyde: Raney
Edgerton, Clyde: Walking
Across Egypt
Elliott, Scott: Coiled in the Heart
Eppes, Cindy: South
of Reason
Faulkner, William: Yoknapatawpha County series: Sartoris, The Sound
and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The
Unvanquished, The Hamlet (Snopes Trilogy #1), Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the
Dust, Requiem For a Nun, The Town (Snopes Trilogy #2), The Mansion (Snopes Trilogy
#3), The Reivers, Flags in the Dust
Frank, Dorothea Benton: Lowcountry series:
Sullivan's Island, Plantation, Isle of Palms, Shem Creek
Gay, William: The
Long Home
Gay, William: Provinces of Night
Gearino, G.D.: Blue Hole
George, Anne Carroll: This One and Magic Life
Gibbons, Kaye: A Cure
for Dreams
Gibbons, Kaye: Ellen Foster series
Gibbons, Kaye: A Virtuous
Woman
Gordon, Caroline: The Women on the Porch
Gwyn, Aaron: Dog on the
Cross
Haines, Carolyn: Judas Burning
Haines, Carolyn: Penumbra
Haines, Carolyn: Summer of the Redeemers
Haines, Carolyn: Touched
Hall,
Barbara: A Better Place
Hall, Barbara: Close to Home
Hannah, Barry:
Yonder Stands Your Orphan
Harris, William C. Jr.: Jesus Island series: Delirium
of the Brave, No Enemy But Time
Haynes, Melinda: Chalktown
Haynes, Melinda:
Mother of Pearl
Haynes, Melinda: Willem's Field
Hazelgrove, William
Elliott: Tobacco Sticks
Hermes, Myrlin A.: Careful What You Wish For
Hill, David: Butterfly Sunday
Hill, David: Sacred Dust
Hill, Mars: The
Moaner's Bench
Howard, Ravi: Like Trees, Walking
Hurston, Zora Neale:
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Hurston, Zora Neale: Moses, Man of the Mountain
Hurston,
Zora Neale: Mules and Men
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jackson, Joshilyn: Between, Georgia
Jackson, Joshilyn: The Girl Who
Stopped Swimming
Jordan, Hillary: Mudbound
Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret
Life of Bees
Kingsbury, Suzanne: The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me
Lansens, Lori: Rush Home Road
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Lemann,
Nancy: Malaise
Lott, Bret: A Song I Knew by Heart
Malone, Michael: Red
Clay, Blue Cadillac
Manley, Frank: True Hope
Marius, Richard: Bourbon
County series: The Coming of Rain, After the War, An Affair of Honor
Maron,
Margaret: Last Lessons of Summer
Mayes, Frances: Swan
McCarthy, Cormac:
The Orchard Keeper
McCarthy, Susan Carol: True Fires
McCullers, Carson:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McFather, Nell: Southern Secrets
Mda, Zakes:
Cion
Mitcham, Judson: Sabbath Creek
Morris, Michael: Slow Way Home
Morris, Scott M.: Waiting for April
Morris, Willie: Taps
Naslund, Sena
Jeter: Four Spirits
Neilson, Melany: The Persia Cafe
O'Connor, Flannery:
Collected Stories
O'Connor, Flannery: Everything That Rises Must Converge
O'Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories
O'Connor,
Flannery: Wise Blood
Odell, Jonathan: The View From Delphi
Parker, Michael:
Trent series: Hello Down There, Towns Without Rivers
Patrick, Jennifer: The
Night She Died
Payne, David: Back to Wando Passo
Pearson, T.R.: Blue
Ridge
Percy, Walker: The Last Gentleman
Piccirilli, Tom: A Choir of
Ill Children
Price, Reynolds: Great Circle series: The Surface of Earth,
The Source of Light, The Promise of Rest
Pruett, Lynn: Ruby River
Rash,
Ron: One Foot in Eden
Rash, Ron: Saints at the River
Reynolds, April:
Knee-Deep in Wonder
Reynolds, Sheri: Bitterroot Landing
Reynolds, Sheri:
Firefly Cloak
Reynolds, Sheri: The Rapture of Canaan
Rubio, Gwyn Hyman:
Icy Sparks
Sanders, Dori: Clover
Sanders, Dori: Her Own Place
Sherman,
Dayne: Welcome to the Fallen Paradise
Smith, Deborah: On Bear Mountain
Smith, Deborah: The Stone Flower Garden
Smith, R.T.: Uke Rivers Delivers
Spencer, Elizabeth: The Southern Woman
Tartt, Donna: The Little Friend
Trobaugh, Augusta: Swan Place
Vernon, Olympia: Logic
Warren, Robert
Penn: All the King's Men
Watson, Brad: The Heaven of Mercury
Watson,
Sterling: Sweet Dream Baby
Welty, Eudora: Losing Battles
Whitney, P.L.:
This is Graceanne's Book
Williams, Naomi: Two Rivers
Williams, Tennessee:
Collected Stories
Wimberley, Darryl: A Tinker's Damn
Wintner, Robert:
In a Sweet Magnolia Time
Woodrell, Daniel: Winter's Bone
Yancey, Richard:
A Burning in Homeland
Yarbrough, Steve: Prisoners of War
Zigal, Thomas:
The White League
Handy Links:
Reading,
Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood
Reading,
Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday
Reading,
Learning, Teaching Kurt Vonnegut
Reading,
Learning, Teaching Barbara Kingsolver
Reading,
Learning, Teaching Ralph Ellison
Alice Walker in the
Classroom: "Living by the Word"
Sandra Cisneros in
the Classroom: "Do not forget to reach"
Judith
Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
Nikki Giovanni in
the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new pleasure"
Raymond Carver in the Classroom:
"A Small, Good Thing"
Langston Hughes in the
Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
Amy Tan in the Classroom:
"The art of invisible strength"
Tim O'Brien in the
Classroom: "This too is true: Stories can save us"
Sherman Alexie in the Classroom:
"This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."
Zora Neale Hurston
in the Classroom: "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hands"
Reading Stephen King:
Issues of Censorship, Student Choice, and Popular Literature
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
Read-Write-Think:
Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
Read-Write-Think:
Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Read-Write-Think:
Robert Frost Prompts the Poet in You
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Analyzing Maya Angelou’s Poems as a Window into
Her Character
Learn NC: The Life of Twain
Learn NC: Literature Biography
Project
Learn NC: Master Artist Internet
Research Project: Timeline
Learn NC: The Life and Works
of Edgar Allan Poe
Learn NC: Maya Angelou: Study
and Response to "Still I Rise"
Learn NC: One, Two, Three...Go
POE!
National Endowment
for the Humanities: Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching
God
National Endowment
for the Humanities: Mark Twain and American Humor
Handy Links:
Shakespeare Links
PS's
Shakespeare Links
Online
Guide to Romeo and Juliet
Conquering the Fear of Shakespeare
Shakespeare on Youtube
Folger Shakespeare Library Online Resources for Teachers
Discovering Literature
In the Virtual
Library, see the following units:
Social Issues
as Presented in Romeo and Juliet by Christine Trudel
Romeo
and Juliet by Lynn Berry, Sarah Donovan, and Meghann Hummel
Hamlet by Jenny
Stumpp
Working (with)
Hamlet: Relays and Appropriations by Scott Reed
Sleep No
More, Macbeth: Power Past and Present (2007) by Rand Stewart
Revenge
in Hamlet (2008) by Lauren Waldo
Choice
and Consequences with Romeo and Juliet (2008) by Brett Belcher, Aimee Dowd,
& Shannon Juhan
Choice
and Consequence within Macbeth (2008) by Victor Lane
Hidden
Identity: Finding Yourself in Romeo and Juliet (2008) by Stacie Rustin
Adaptations
of Romeo and Juliet (2009) by Rachel Winne Lilly
Shakespeare’s
Word: Love, Marriage, Blood, and Hands in Romeo and Juliet (2009) by Beth Pitman
Search
for Identity: Hamlet (FSU) by Samar Al Slaiby and Brandi Doutherd
Bridging
Shakespeare with the Big Lebowski: A Unit Based on Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
(FSU) by Adam Bertocci
Perception
is Everything: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (FSU) by Miriam Phillips
Conflicting
Loyalties in Romeo and Juliet (2011) by Sarah Chattin
Frenemies:
Relationships in Othello (FSU 2011) by Gia Maxwell
Macbeth
Unit (FSU 2011) by Sean Noga
Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Difficulties of Friendship and Love: During the
Renaissance and Today
Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet: Modernizing the Renaissance: Feuds, Love, and Sorrow in Romeo
and Juliet and the 2011 Classroom
#TeenProblems--Romeo
& Juliet: How the Lives of Today's Youth are found in Shakespeare (2012)
by Sarah Antonuccio
Individuality v. Sense of Community: A 7th Grade English/Language Arts Unit (2013) by Patrick Yawn [The Taming of the Shrew]
Online Lesson Plans
Read-Write-Think:
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Read-Write-Think:
Analyzing Character in Hamlet through Epitaphs
Read-Write-Think:
Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
Read-Write-Think:
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of Shakespeare
Read-Write-Think:
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
Read-Write-Think:
Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age
Read-Write-Think:
Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
Read-Write-Think:
Introducing Shakespeare: Character Journals and Point of View
Read-Write-Think:
Introducing Shakespeare: Exploring Persona and Character Motivations
Read-Write-Think:
Introducing Shakespeare: The Bard's English
Read-Write-Think:
Analyzing Character in Hamlet through Epitaphs
Read-Write-Think:
Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: Cultural Distinctions of the Central Themes in Romeo
and Juliet
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute: The Tragic Genre from Classical to Contemporary: King
Lear and A Thousand Acres
Learn NC: Romeo and Juliet: The
Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene 2)
Learn NC: Romeo! Why Do You Have
to Be a Doggone Montague?
Learn NC: Sonnet 130-- rude or
reality?
Learn NC: The Trial of Hamlet
National Endowment
for the Humanities: Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
National Endowment
for the Humanities: Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
Spoken Word
Macbeth rap
