Whether reading for the classroom or personal enjoyment, consider these key questions before beginning Thoreau’s essay.
Name That Literary Period: Realism
Looking at 8 realist masterpieces to get a sense of what life and literature was really like during the age of realism.
Name That Literary Period: Modernism
Let’s look at these 8 modernist works!
Name That Literary Period: Medieval
Let’s look at 10 crucial medieval works that have laid the foundation for literature today.
3 Steps to Writing a Synthesis
We often ask our students to summarize events in the texts that they read—be they fiction or nonfiction. However, to truly help students gain a clear understanding of the texts, we need to move beyond summarizing and take their writing …
Key Texts for an Introductory Unit on Reconstruction
Let’s look at three key texts from the early moments from this period and how they laid the foundation for what would come.
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Name That Literary Period: Existentialism
Seven must-read existential books that made the complicated philosophical theory accessible and even appealing to everyday people.
Four Strategies for Literary Discussions in the Classroom
Classroom conversations about literature usually go one of two ways: Teachers moderate a Think-Pair-Share discussion, or, the whole class sits in a circle to consider questions in a free-for-all Socratic Seminar. Though opposite in structure, Think-Pair-Share and Socratic Seminars suffer …
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