Suggests that transactional analysis is a useful tool in providing insight into literary works and in offering a precise vocabulary with which to share observations, and gives a sample analysis of Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello." (JM)

Suggests the use of parody to deepen students' understanding of how and why poems work. (TJ)

Suggests a way to motivate students' writing and thinking by having them react to critics of novels, plays, or short stories. (TJ)

Recommends teaching Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" by using a grammatical approach to the reading. (TJ)

Suggests putting student writers in touch with publishing nonfiction writers by having them write critiques of an author's article, then sending the critique to the author for his or her response. (HTH)

Describes an assignment in which students locate, read, assess, and discuss critical articles about the works of literature they are studying. Points to many benefits of the assignment, including its positive effects on students' library research skills. (TJ)

Offers a series of related approaches to teaching poetry and helping students to overcome their phobia of it. Suggests that students gain from discussion of vocabulary, the poem's speaker and his or her perspective, and word choices in the poem. (TB)

Describes a method for analyzing "Tom Jones," emphasizing an historical approach which also reveals much about the culture of eighteenth century England. (RB)

Suggests an extented exercise to help students interpret myths and discover sex-role stereotyping in them. (TJ)

Provides a sequence of assignments, and the theory upon which they are based, for composition courses that include film. Includes ordering information and an abstract for the film "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," upon which the assignments are based. (TJ)

Recommends a series of reading and writing assignments designed to help students develop style and tone in their writing. (TJ)

An approach to teaching the novel to high school students by tying literature and the printed media (newspapers and magazines) together is described in this brief article. PROCEDURE (excerpt): To link the study of the printed media to the study of the novel, book reviews, one positive and one negative, were duplicated for classroom use. Students…

Suggests giving literature/composition students a set of declarative statements that enable them to define a thematic statement and then write a focused, fully developed analytical essay. Includes such declarative statements from the novel "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler. (HTH)