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American Literature: Students
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In this first-semester American literature course, students explore the themes of technology, language, illusion, and independence. Students read culturally diverse selections within such differing genres as the essay, short story, novel, historical writings, and poetry. Through multimedia presentations, selections provide vocabulary enrichment, textual insights, and audio readings of excerpts to enhance the learning experience. Students will develop critical thinking and writing skills by taking quizzes, completing creative projects, and sharing their thoughts in newsgroups, or one-on-one with the teacher or other students.
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This video workshop for high school American literature teachers introduces techniques for reading cultural, political, and religious artifacts and connecting them to the literature they teach. In each video program, experts in multiple disciplines do close analysis of a wide range of visual, print, and physical artifacts. The experts engage on-camera teachers in a discussion of the artifacts and how they can enhance the study of works of literature. These teachers then use artifacts with their own students to help deepen their understanding of the historical, political, and social contexts of the literature they read. Throughout the workshop, participants will learn and practice a six-step process for choosing and using artifacts successfully with their students.
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American Literature is a course for both English majors and non-majors. Non-majors will enjoy the course's introduction to early American literary, historical, and cultural experience; majors will develop a sound foundation for further reading and study in American literature and culture. For both kinds of students, this course is a starting point.
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Prentice Hall Literature The American Experience will be used in class. The major novels that will be read in this course are To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and Ethan Frome, as well as outside reading novels from the list provided. Students are responsible for taking care of the texts. If a school provided text is lost, the student is responsible for paying for it.
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This work is a carefully organized and knowledgeable compendium of sources, definitions, and key topics for use in connection with undergraduate courses in American Literature. Based on Professor Reuben's considerable experience in teaching and developing such courses, this is a useful and conveniently arranged vade mecum for either the experienced or new instructor and for the student.
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Students will be able to articulate an understanding of the major writers of American Literature. Students will enhance their appreciation of American Literature through the exposure to a sampling of American classics. Students will expand their vocabulary skills. Students will develop into lifetime readers.
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