Take advantage of the opportunity to read those American plays that have been on your 'must read' list for too long. This course gives you the chance to discover the value and importance of American drama while equipping you with innovative strategies and activities to make dramatic literature come alive for your students.
Inspire and engage students with a love of poetry! This online, standards-based course explores a variety of methods for single-subject teachers to bring poetry into their classroom. Students are naturally drawn to poetry. This course will invite teachers to use a variety of approaches with poetry in their classroom and discover poetry that is both appropriate and accessible for their students.
Short Stories from American Literature is a professional development course designed for teachers of grades 7-14 where students will read stories by classic and contemporary American authors. The materials also provide a review of the tools for reading, stimulating the development of insight, understanding, and discernment.
Experience reading outstanding short stories from multiple cultures, including Europe, South America, and Africa. When one reads international authors, one is caught first by the universality of life. Their concerns, experiences and dilemmas are not that different from those of readers and writiers everywhere.
This course, designed for teachers of middle school, secondary school, and college level, provides the structure and incentive to read and think about some of the great novels from American fiction. These works have shaped the development of American literature, thought and culture. Teachers will be asked to read two novels selected from a list of 19th and 20th century classics and to respond to their readings in a variety of creative ways.
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