Literature is authentic language, written with unusual care, skill, and language awareness. It is useful for teaching culture and civilization, but equally useful for teaching basic elements of language: grammar, vocabulary, rhythms, and registers. Literary skills are also widely used in everyday situations, with sophisticated literary techniques…

However the initial germ of a written work arises, there usually follows a prewriting period of meditation. At this rehearsal stage in writing, the author must gain a sense of audience and grope with such variables as genre, point of view, voice, line, tone, and pattern. Many authors of fiction keep journals or notebooks as incubation places where…

Intended for teachers, language arts supervisors, curriculum designers, and others interested in the teaching of English in elementary and middle schools, this book proposes a way of unifying the language arts in a program that makes literature the center of language studies. The first chapter includes a discussion of the central role that…

The different methods used in the "folklorization" of the story of Jose Mosqueda, a noted outlaw, are discussed. (NQ)

This paper discusses a contemporary literary movement, "New Nonfiction." New Nonfiction is described as a reaction against the hermeticism of the modern novel, the abstractions of historical scholarship, and the impersonal, sensational, and formulaic reports of the mass media. It is a written narrative that connects private sensibility with public…

This teacher's manual is designed to accompany the sixth grade level of the kindergarten through grade six sequenced literature curriculum developed through the Instructional Television Services Section of the Nebraska Department of Education. The purpose of the series at this level is to introduce the student to the wide variety in types of…

SIX PROFESSORS OF ENGLISH PRESENT ESSAYS ON THE TEACHING OF EACH OF THE MAJOR LITERARY GENRES. ALL OF THE ESSAYS STRESS THE NECESSITY FOR AN INTELLIGENT CLOSE READING OF A LITERARY WORK, AND FOR AN AWARENESS OF THE VARIETY OF APPROACHES TO TEACHING LITERATURE. DISCOURAGING THE COMMON PRACTICE OF QUIZZING STUDENTS ON FACTUAL INFORMATION, THE ESSAYS…

The four major purposes of this study were: to examine and describe the in-depth discussions by selected sixth graders of specific books in an attempt to characterize the nature of the responses; to compare four strategies which were employed for initiating the different discussions; to discover the range of personal involvement which sixth…

Comedy is the middle ground upon which the absurd and the serious meet. Concerned with illuminating pain, human imperfection, and man's failure to measure up to his own or the world's concept of perfection, comedy provides "an escape, not from truth but from despair." If tragedy says that some ideals are worth dying for, comedy asserts…

Forty-seven essays from five centuries of writings on biography are contained in this book. Selections are arranged under the following headings: "Before 1700" (9 selections), "The Eighteenth Century" (5), "The Nineteenth Century" (11), "Early Twentieth Century" (14), and "Mid-Twentieth Century" (8). Authors range from Francis Bacon to Leon Edel.…

Articles contained in this publication are (1) "Criticism in Teaching Literature" by Wayne Booth; (2) "Criticism and Literature: A Reply" (to Booth's article) by Frederick J. Hoffman; (3) "Criticism in Context" by Helen C. White; (4) "Formalist Criticism and Shakespeare" by Kester Svendsen; (5) "Grammar, History, and Criticism" by Kenneth S.…

This document contains a resource guide designed to help teachers plan programs of literature study for students at all grade levels, and "Broward County's K through 12 Continuum for the English Language Arts," which is a statement of general goals in English considered appropriate for students to work toward during their school years. Goals are…

This revised edition of "From Primer to Pleasure" examines the history of children's books in England and elsewhere from the invention of printing to 1914. Sections and chapters are divided according to sources (printing, romance and traditional literature, and developments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), foundations (reason versus…

Much of the clamor about instructional relevance today results from student dissatisfaction with (1) the narrow and anachronistic definition of literature commonly given by teachers, (2) the artificial compartmentalizing of literary works, and (3) the assumption that literature can only be apprehended through analysis. Rather than concentrating…

This independent study module treats those Americans who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. They include Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Pearl Buck. Selections from the writings of these authors are included. Their works represent many literary genres and also…