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A "Tempest" Project: Shakespeare and Critical Conflicts.
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McCann, Thomas M.; Flanagan, Joseph M. – English Journal, 2002
Describes a 4-week unit of study that focuses on Shakespeare's "The Tempest," a text that has been especially controversial in today's climate of increased multicultural awareness. Involves students in a larger conversation about the possibilities for reading and interpreting literature and prepares them to write mature analyses of the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Conflict, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction
Teaching Conceptualization through Narrative Analysis: A Formula for Theme.
Strobel, Shirley H. – 1982
A five-step method of conflict analysis can help students generate accurate and complex theme statements about literature without teacher intervention. The conflict analysis involves (1) identifying the characters who are in conflict as a series of pairs and determining if the protagonist has an inner conflict; (2) determining the major conflict,…
Descriptors: Conflict, Discovery Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction
Literature of War and Peace. Section I: "...What They Are Running From and To, and Why."
Bettendorf, Joline; And Others – 1987
This 4-5 day curriculum unit is designed for use in English and language arts classrooms, grades 7-12 and junior college. While it is the first section in a series of five on the literature of war and peace, it can be used with or without the other four sections. Each section of the series focuses on a different genre of the literature of war and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conflict, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education
Literature of War and Peace. Section III: Why War?
Bettendorf, Joline; And Others – 1988
This 13-day curriculum unit is designed for use in English and language arts classrooms, grades 7-12 and junior college. While it is the third section in a series of five on the literature of war and peace, it can be used with or without the other four sections. Each section of the series focuses on a different genre of the literature of war and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conflict, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education
Literature of War and Peace. Section V: The Individual and the State.
Bettendorf, Joline; And Others – 1989
This 14-16 day curriculum unit is designed for use in English and language arts classrooms, grades 9-12 and community college. While it is the fifth section in a series of five on the literature of war and peace, it can be used with or without the other four sections. Each section of the series focuses on a different genre of the literature of war…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conflict, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education
Writing a Rationale for a Controversial Common Reading Book: Alice Walker's "The Color Purple."
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Worthington, Pepper – English Journal, 1985
Offers a rationale that can be used to defend the assignment of Alice Walker's controversial novel for class reading. Indicates four issues that might evoke calls for censorship: (1) subject matter, (2) vocabulary, (3) grammar, and (4) the epistolary form of the work. (RBW)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Censorship, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Literature of War and Peace. Section II: Survival and Afterward.
Bettendorf, Joline; And Others – 1987
This 13 day curriculum unit is designed for use in English and language arts classrooms, grades 7-12 and junior college. While it is the second section in a series of five on the literature of war and peace, it can be used with or without the other four sections. Each section of the series focuses on a different genre of the literature of war and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conflict, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education