http://teacherlingo.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=education,american+lit.&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'education' and 'american lit.'en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 61120.2)http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/06/19/the-year-in-review.aspxThu, 19 Jun 2008 14:04:19 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:67040AnonymousI’m such a geek when it comes to teaching. Two weeks after the school year concludes, I’m ready to start again. Since I can’t have a classroom full of students to teach, I go back and revise and adapt my curriculum lessons during July and August. This year I have some more revisions to make, [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/05/26/two-novels-of-race-relations.aspxMon, 26 May 2008 21:34:38 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:62224AnonymousTwo novels I taught this year were To Kill A Mockingbird and A Gathering of Old Men. Prior to and during reading these novels, I had the kids look at some songs, poems, and historical context. Here are a few of my favorite things concerning the race relations in the novels. Prior to reading To Kill [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/05/23/the-matrix-in-class-part-ii.aspxFri, 23 May 2008 04:39:05 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:61344AnonymousToday we started the film The Matrix and the kids are enthralled. What a great feeling to know they are learning the literary devices and analyzing while enjoying the process. Also, I introduced the double-entry journal, the Christ-like character attributes, and the heroic cycle. Everyone dove right in to the the work. While watching the film I [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/05/22/the-matrix-in-class.aspxThu, 22 May 2008 04:09:02 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:61126AnonymousI purchased some movie units from Michael Vetrie, an alternative high school teacher in Sun Valley, CA, and I’m going to try one tomorrow. I will show The Matrix in half-hour segments, so the students can do the following: compose a double-entry journal, study the film using literary terms, analyze critical quotations in the novel plot how Neo follows [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/05/14/movies-for-enrichment.aspxThu, 15 May 2008 03:22:51 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:59684AnonymousWhile I assess diction analysis papers, personal essay, and literary analysis essays this week in the evening, I have scheduled enrichment films for my students. Here they are: Reading A Gathering of Old Men Malcolm X Separate But Equal Mississippi Burning Reading Frankenstein Edward Scissorhands Frankenstein Reading The Iliad Troy 300 Any movies you would recommend for these texts? How about for Norse Mythology, Fahrenheit 451, [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/05/06/my-favorite-literature-to-teach.aspxWed, 07 May 2008 02:57:08 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:57819AnonymousHere is a list of my favorite literary works of length to teach: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare The Crucible by Arthur Miller A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens What are your favorite pieces of literature to teach? [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/04/19/movie-suggestions.aspxSat, 19 Apr 2008 20:20:34 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:53345AnonymousI love using film clips or outside of class movies to enrich my students’ learning experiences, and the kids respond enthusiastically when I do use the cinema to enhance units. Any suggestions? I have the following novels to teach this semester: To Kill A Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Fahrenheit 451, A Gathering of Old Men, and Beowulf. I will show the film versions for [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/04/12/power-and-the-beloved-country.aspxSun, 13 Apr 2008 01:30:33 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:51048AnonymousStumped. Stymied. Befuddled. Flustered. Perplexed. Mystified. Stuck. That’s what I felt when trying to decide how to introduce the next novel in my class, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Even though I’m teaching American Literature in this college-level course, I’m using an African novel principally because Paton used Steinbeck’s style, motifs, and some of [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/04/08/music-in-the-classroom.aspxWed, 09 Apr 2008 02:06:53 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:50021AnonymousRecently I decided to include more music into my lessons. I started this with my American Literature courses (the College in the High School and mainstream classes), and my students have reacted quote favorably. Initially, I used The Who’s “Baba O’Rily” and “My Generation” with Anne Tyler’s “Teenage Wasteland.” Not only do the lyrics match the [...]http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/drpezz/archive/2008/04/07/project-pictures.aspxMon, 07 Apr 2008 05:17:09 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:49654AnonymousI took a few pictures of projects for the end of The Great Gatsby unit. Each pair of students had to create an artistic rendition based on a quotation (Eckleburg’s eyes were popular) with an explanation, a sonnet connecting three characters, three essay question answers, and everything compiled into a display of some sort. Here are a few [...]