Partly because I am trying to show off the pretty handouts I have created using Apple iWorks’s Pages, and partly because I wanted to try out Issuu, here is a collection of handouts for British literature. Open publication – Free publishing – More writing Open publication – Free publishing – More writing Open publication – [...]
Entries Tagged as 'british literature'
Pretty British Literature Handouts
July 7th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Teaching Literature, Tools
Tags: british literature·chaucer·courtly love·handouts·issuu·jane austen·macbeth·pride and prejudice·sense and sensibility·shakespeare
Teaching Schedule
June 9th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Teaching Literature, Teaching Writing, Tools
I received my teaching schedule for next year. I am stepping back into some comfortable areas as well as taking on some new challenges. I will be teaching two sections (two levels) of British Literature and Composition, same as I did this year, and I will also be teaching my Hero with a Thousand Faces [...]
Tags: american literature·british literature·hellmansoft·ical·journalism·planbook·schedule·teaching·teaching responsibilities·things·writing seminar
Planning for Next Year
May 2nd, 2010 · 18 Comments · Teaching Literature
Some time in April or May, I think a lot of teachers, or maybe just teacher geeks like me, start thinking about next year and how they’re going to make it even better. I have not created an entire curriculum map, but I have a skeleton. A few broader goals: Using wikis for my classes. [...]
Frankenstein
December 28th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Assessment, Teaching Literature
One thing I share with my department chair is a geeky love of planning assignments. I should probably have been grading papers today, but instead I finished my Frankenstein unit and created a performance task based on an out-of-date (and apparently no longer used/updated) WebQuest. I did think the ideas were sound, but I also [...]
Tags: british literature·frankenstein·mary shelley·ubd·webquest
Brave New World
August 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Teaching Literature
My 11th grade British literature classes read three books as part of a summer reading assignment: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester. The way we typically assess summer reading is to have students complete a test, writing assignment, [...]
Tags: aldous huxley·brave new world·british literature·literature·summer reading
Teaching “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning
May 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Teaching Literature
As I mentioned over the weekend, on Friday, a colleague allowed me to teach her British literature class. I taught Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover.” This poem is anthologized in some literature texts and not in others; therefore, if you do not have it in your book, you can download it here: “Porphyria’s Lover” by [...]
