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George, Marshall A. – English Journal, 2001
Relates stories of three middle and high school teachers to describe how teachers can effectively integrate young adult literature into the curriculum. Notes a variety of strategies, including the particularly effective use of multiple genre thematic units, where a variety of texts are linked by some common theme, allowing students to use…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, English Instruction, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Kerner, Howard A. – 1994
Suggesting that instructors approach literature from a multidisciplinary life-based stance, this paper presents syllabi, pedagogical techniques, and a student essay which illustrates a life-based approach to literary themes. The first section of the paper deals with creative curricular re-packaging of great literature in which traditional course…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Pacheco, Beth M. – 1981
This paper describes a thematically organized interdisciplinary reading course, offers a rationale for including literature in a reading curriculum, and outlines an approach for presenting the short story in the context of a thematic interdisciplinary college reading course. It concludes with a brief discussion of two short stories and provides…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Content, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Salter, Christopher L.; Lloyd, William J. – 1977
One of a series of Resource Papers for College Geography, this thematic study guide focuses on literary setting and the personal space of fictional characters as an approach to comparative literary study, and concurrently uses fictional treatments of landscape and place as a means to encourage greater sensitivity to geographical and architectural…
Descriptors: Architecture, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Human Geography
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Johnson, Rebecca Kelch – English Journal, 1980
Discusses the need for teaching junior high and middle school students about the Holocaust of World War II and other incidents of oppression and persecution. (RL)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Civil Liberties, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Dodson, Charles Brooks – 1987
A "special themes in literature" course about illness and disability was designed to help future nurses to understand the human, rather than the clinical, dimensions of impairment and its effects on the sufferer as well as the sufferer's family, associates, and community. The objectives of the course were to look at such matters as…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Course Objectives, Curriculum Design, Disabilities
Peale, Lydia – 1982
An effective, 3-week unit on the 1920's in America, inspired by a reading of "The Great Gatsby," is designed around the idea of structure in history, government, literature, and writing. It has the following aims for students: (1) to understand the history of the 1920s, (2) to see literature as a creative shaping of the experience of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Cultural Awareness, History Instruction, Integrated Activities
Bushman, John H.; Jones, Sandra – 1977
Recently, the use of thematic units in the teaching of language arts at the secondary level has significantly increased. This document discusses the theory and practice of using thematic units. The first section provides an overview of the use of thematic units and shows how such units can aid in teaching students about the composing process,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, High Schools, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Sanacore, Joseph – 1993
A literature-based approach across the curriculum helps students to personalize content-area curricula, to enjoy reading a diversity of subject-matter materials, and to improve attitudes toward reading. Teachers, supervisors, and administrators can cooperatively support literature-based practice across the curriculum by creating a positive…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education, Instructional Leadership
Allen, Paula Gunn, Ed. – 1983
Written to address critical problems that arise in the study of American Indian literature, the essays in this volume feature critical studies that explain or make use of basic themes, motifs, structures, and symbols found in traditional and modern American Indian literature. In conjunction with the essays, the book provides a wide range of basic…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies, Course Content
Modest, Diane; Cymerman, Sandra – 1988
This training manual is intended to enable educators to utilize the SAGE Tri-Fold Model as a means for developing a process-oriented differentiated curriculum for elementary grade gifted students using either the separate classroom, the resource room, or the consultant teacher model. The program, a nationally validated National Diffusion Network…
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Gifted
Sorensen, Marilou R., Ed.; Lehman, Barbara A., Ed. – 1995
Pointing out that understanding, considering, preparing, modeling, teaching, collaborating, assessing, and supporting are steps along the path to using literature in the classroom, the essays in this book provide a solid background for those teachers who are considering making the transition to literature-based instruction in their classrooms.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum