1 CD-ROM disk (Macintosh or Windows). One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. The author breaks down the language of critical theory into clear, thorough explanations of many schools of critical thought, reader response, biographical, historical, psychological, archetypal, genre based, moral, philosophical, feminist, political, formalist, and postmodern. "Doing literary criticism" gives each theory its own chapter with a brief, teacher-friendly overview and a history of the approach, along with an in-depth discussion of its benefits and limitations. Each chapter also includes ideas for classroom practices and activities. Using stories from his own English classes, from alternative programs to advanced placement and everything in between, Gillespie provides a wealth of specific classroom-tested suggestions for discussion, essay and research paper topics, recommended texts, exam questions, and more. The accompanying CD offers abbreviated overviews of each theory (designed to be used as classroom handouts), examples of student work, collections of quotes to stimulate discussion and writing, an extended history of women writers, and much more.
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