Genre Packets

Literary Goodies -- Terminology, Background, Best Handouts, Overview Handouts

• Drama
• Essay
• Novel
• Poetry
• Short Story

Focused Presentations

These handouts are usually 20-25 pges long and were developed for one-hour workshops.

• All Books Are Either Dreams or Swords: Responding to Reading
• Covers: Using Musical Interpretation to Teach Poetry
• Anecdote, Imagery, Epiphany, and Rant: Voice in the Essay
• Doing More with Less: The Short Story
• First Chapters: Passage Analysis and Book Promotion
• Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in the Spotlight
• Poem-a-Day: Using National Poetry Month and Online Resources for Poetry Immersion
• Rhetoric for Beginners: Using Advertisements to Introduce Rhetoric
• Don’t Throw that Away: Using Free Catalogues to Teach Almost Everything English
• Getting to the Root of Vocabulary
• All about Acronyms
• Rubrics, Rubrics, Rubrics

Useful Advanced English Links

Terminology

Writing Help

Useful Sites

Literary Theory and Criticism

• Illuminations (University of Texas)
• Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
• Contemporary Literary Theory (John Lye)
• Glossary of Literary Theory (University of Toronto)
• Guide to Critical Theory (Dino Felluga)
• Introduction to Modern Literary Theory (Kristi Siegel)
• The Writer’s Journey -- Christopher Vogler’s adaptation of Joseph Campbell for movies. Amazing. Exerpt and Full Text (10 MG).

Teacher Sites -- Where have all the teachers gone? On sabbatical, into administration, to commercial sites. So sorry.

• Don Pogebra’s Quixotic Pedagogue -- wonderful handouts with graphic flair.
• Jerry Brown’s website has buried treasure, well worth seeking.
• Ronnie Campagna’s DropBoxis a wealth of materials. Please download; do not delete or move.
• Ms Hogue’s Online English Resources -- Dawn Hogue provides a Teacher’s Toolbox and other online resources for AP and regular classes

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