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Peer reviewedGrayson, Sandra M. – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Presents a lesson to help students learn that Africans played a significant role in the abolition of the slave trade based on Olaudah Equiano's "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano," which places an African writer in the center of a discussion on works published in Britain. (SR)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction, English Literature, Lesson Plans
Peer reviewedBabcock, Suzanne – Exercise Exchange, 1983
Provides an eight-day sequence of assignments to introduce the idea of the speaker or "persona" to a high school English class beginning study of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. Cites works by Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, and William Blake. (HTH)
Descriptors: Characterization, Classroom Techniques, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction
Dean, Paul – Use of English, 1984
Suggests a method of teaching the poetry of Alexander Pope that focuses on the satirical nature of his writing. (AEA)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Kenny, Shirley Strum – ADE Bulletin, 1980
Presents a method of teaching Restoration and eighteenth-century drama in which a context shaped by student characteristics and needs is built for the study of the plays and in which a single specific problem is addressed in each text to develop an understanding of the drama and the period. (DF)
Descriptors: College English, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction
Download full textDonato, Clorinda; And Others – 1992
This resource book provides 26 learning activities with background materials for teaching about the Enlightenment. Topics include: (1) "What Was the Enlightenment?"; (2) "An Introduction to the Philosophes"; (3) "Was the Enlightenment a Revolt Against Rationalism?"; (4) "Were the Philosophes Democrats? A…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, European History, Foreign Countries, French Literature
Otto, Don H. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1989
Now that senior high school English teachers are once more under pressure to teach literary masterpieces, they may find help in some of the practices of creative English teachers in the post-Sputnik era (1957-1963). Those practices worked. Not only did the kids meet great authors and their books, but the encounters were relatively painless. In…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction, English Literature, English Teacher Education
Bidault, Frederique; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1986
Texts from a variety of genres (letter, narrative, biography, film scenario, and dialogue) and a variety of French authors of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are provided as examples of discourse with the common theme of passion and as sources for the study of the semiotics of passion. (MSE)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Eighteenth Century Literature, French, French Literature
Sianjina, Mary F. – 1994
For several years, one educator has taught Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" to eighth and ninth graders. She recently discovered a woman writer of the 18th century whose novel could be taught using the same format used to teach Dickens's novel. Fanny Burney's "Evelina" is an exceptional book, effective not only for teaching the epistolary…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature
