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Cole, David R. – English in Australia, 2014
This paper suggests how the "weird fiction" of H.P. Lovecraft might be mobilised within secondary English classrooms to examine aspects of visual literacy, literary style, narrative form and intertextuality. The approach that is outlined is characterised, after Lovecraft's famous monster, as a "Cthulhuic literacy" and is…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Secondary Education, Science Fiction, Visual Literacy
Rish, Ryan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigates an elective English class, in which students in grades 10-12 collectively read and collaboratively wrote fantasy fiction in four groups. The purpose of the class was to have students consider the choices fantasy and science fictions writers, directors, and video game designers make when creating a fictional world. The…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Literacy, Elective Courses, Cartography
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
These Proceedings document an educational research forum held at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) on December 7, 2005. Table of contents and 26 research studies of high school teaching are included. Studies include: (1) Mathematical Reasoning in Multiple Representations: Connections and Confidence (Justin Allman); (2) The…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Research, Mathematical Logic, Problem Based Learning