ERIC ED361736: Teaching Literature by Women Authors. Teaching Resources in the ERIC Database (TRIED).

225 Pages·1993·3.4 MB·English

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ED 361 736
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AUTHOR
McGowen, Carolyn Smith
TITLE
Teaching Literature by Women
Authors. Teaching
Resources in the ERIC Database (TRIED).
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DESCRIPTORS
Annotated Bibliographies; *Authors;
Biographies;
Class Activities; Elementary
Secondary Education;
*Females; Lesson Plans;
Literary Criticism; Literary
Styles; Novels; Poetry; Short
Stories; Teaching
Methods; Vocabulary Development;
Writing Skills
IDENTIFIERS
Gender (Language)
ABSTRACT
Designed to tap the rich
collection of instructional
techniques
in the ERIC database,
this compilation of lesson
plans
focuses on practical suggestions
for addressing the works
of women
authors in the English/language
arts classroom at elementary,
middle-school, and secondary
levels. The 57 lesson plans
in this book
cover lessons on gender equity,
novels, biogrephy and
autobiography,
short stories, and poetry.
The book includes
an activities chart
which indicates the focus
and types of activities (such
as creative
tasks, vocabulary development,
oral reading, journal writing,
symbols, and simulation) found
in the various lessons.
A 61-item
annotated bibliography contains
references to related
resources in
the ERIC database. (RS)
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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TEACHING LITERATURE
WOMEN AUTHORS
BY
BY CAROLYN SMITH MCGOWEN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN MOKE
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ERIC
IN COOPERATION WITH
CLEARINGHOUSE ON READING
ENGLISH, AND COMMUNICATION
CO-PUBLISHED 1993 BY
ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE ON READING, ENGLISH, AND COMMUNICATION
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
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CARL B. SMITH, DIRECTOR
AND
EDINFO PRESS
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EDITOR:
David Smith
COVER DESIGN:
Lauren Bongiani Gottlieb and Theresa Hardy
BOOK DESIGN:
Lauren Bongiani Gottlieb
PRODUCTION:
ERIC (an acronym for Educational Resources Information Center) is a national network of 16 clearing-
houses, each of which is responsible for building the ERIC database by identifying and abstracting various
educational resources, including research reports, curriculum guides, conference papers, journal articles,
and government reports. The Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication (ERIC/REC) collects
educational information specifically related to reading, English, journalism, speech, and theater at ail levels.
ERIC/REC also covers interdisciplinary areas, such as media studies, reading and writing technology, mass
communication, language arts, critical thinking, literature, and many aspects of literacy.
TRIED is an acronym for Teaching Resources In the ERIC Database.
This publication was funded in part by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S.
Department of Education, under contract no. RR93002011. Contractors undertaking such projects under
government sponsorp are encouraged to express freely their judgment in professional and technical mat-
ters. Points of view or opinions, however, do not necessarily represent the official view or opinions of the
Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
LIBRARY Of CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DAM
Mc Gowen, Carolyn Smith, 1954-
Teaching literature by women authors / by Carolyn Smith Mc Gowen ; with an introduction by
Susan Moke.
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Includes bibliographical refere.tces.
ISBN 0-927516-38-1
1. American literature--Women authors--Study and teaching. 2. English literature--Women
authors--Study and teaching. 3. Women and literature--Study and teaching.
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Joan Baker
Cleveland State University
Douglas Barnard
Mesa Arizona Public Schools
James Gaudino
Speech Communication Association
Joan Irwin
International Reading Association
Julie Jensen
University of Texas, Austin
Diane Lapp
San Diego State University
Charles Suhor
National Council of Teachers of English
Arnold Webb
Research for Better Schools
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TRIED SERIES INTRODUCTION BY CARL B. SMITH
USER'S GUIDE
iX
I NTRODUCTION
X
ACTIVITIES CHART
xi i
TEACHING A "WOMEN IN LITERATURE" COURSE
4
GENDER EQUITY
Brainwashed in the Nursery
5
Family Structure
10
Recognizing and Challenging Stereotypes
12
Gendered Meaning of Words
15
Boy Toys and Girl Toys?
17
Gender on the Job
20
24
The Linguistics of Genderism
Genderism in Fairy Tales
28
30
NOVELS
Louisa May Alcott: Little lApmen
31
Harriette Arnow: The Dollmaker
33
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
36
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
38
40
Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
George Eliot: Middlemarch
42
44
Bette Green: Summer of My German Soldier
48
Rosa Guy: The Friends
Madeline L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
51
Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
54
Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
56
Jean Marzollo: Halfway Down Paddy Lane
59
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Jean Marzollo: Halfway Down Paddy Lane
62
L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
64
L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
68
Toni Morrison: Sula/Song of Solomon/Tar Baby
71
Marjorie Rawlings: The Yearling
74
Sandra Scoppettone: The Late Great Me
78
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
80
Harriet.Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
83
Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
90
Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
93
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods
96
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods
98
Agatha Christie: Murder Mysteries
100
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
103
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
104
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
106
Helen Keller: The Story of My Life
110
Helen Keller: The Story of My Life
114
Jessie Redmon Fauset and Mary Roberts Rinehart: Biographical Data
119
SHORT STORIES
125
Tony Cade Bambara: "My Man Bovanne"
126
Willa Cather: "Paul's Case"
127
Caroline Gordon: "A Last Day in the Field"
129
Shirley Jackson: "The Lottery"
133
Shirley Jackson: "The Lottery"
135
Joyce Carol Oates: "How I Contemplated the World from the
143
Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again"
Eudora Welty: "A Visit to Charity" and "A Worn Path"
147
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POETRY
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Dorothy Aldis: Sweet Rhymes
Maya Angelou: "Harlem Hopscotch"
153
Emily Dickinson: "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"
155
158
Eve Merriam and Lilian Moore: Sharing Poetry with Students
Anne Sexton: "The Fury of Overshoes"
161
164
Anne Bradstreet: Colonial Poetry
Lucille Clifton: "An Ordinary Woman"
167
172
Julia Malott: The Meaning of Her Poems
176
Lois Prante Stevens: "Our Root Cellar"
182
Lois Prante Stevens: "The Peddler"
187
Phillis Wheatley: Revolutionary War Era Poetry
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Dear Teacher,
In this age of the information explosion, we can easily feel overwhelmed by the enor-
mity of material available to us. This is certainly true in the field of education. Theories
and techniques (both new and recycled) compete for our attention daily. Yet the informa-
tion piling up on our desks and in our minds is often useless precisely because of its enor-
mous volume. How do we begin to sort out the bits and pieces that are interesting and
useful to us?
The TRIED series can help. This series of teaching resources taps the rich collection of
instructional techniques collected in the ERIC database. Focusing on specific topics and
grade levels, these lesson outlines have been condensed and reorganized from their origi-
nal sources to offer you a wide but manageable range of practical teaching suggestions,
useful ideas, and classroom techniques. We encourage you to use the citations to refer to
the sources in the ERIC database for more comprehensive presentations of the material
outlined here.
Besides its role in developing the ERIC database, the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading,
English, and Communication is responsible for synthesizing and analyzing selected infor-
mation from the database and making it available in printed form. To this end we have
developed the TRIED series. The name TRIED reflects the fact that these ideas have been
tried by other teachers and are here shared with you for your consideration. We hope that
thrse teaching supplements will also serve as a guide or introduction to, or reacquain-
tance with, the ERIC system and the wealth of material available in this information age.
Carl B. Smith, Director
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading,
English, and Communication
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These alternatives to textbook teaching offer practical suggestions for addressing the
works of women authors in the English/language-arts classroom at elementary, middle-
school, and secondary levels. Although the needs of individual students may vary signifi-
cantly, the strategies and guidelines presented in this TRIED volume are useful for helping
students to develop language-arts skills.
An "Activities Chart" (pages xi i-xiii) indicates the focus and types of activities (such as
creative tasks, research, vocabulary development, etc.) found in the various chapters. An
annotated bibliography at the end of the book contains references to additional sources, as
well as a list of other resources in the ERIC database with which to develop an entire cur-
riculum for teaching women authors.
These teaching ideas were first tried and tested in the classroom environment, and
then reported in the ERIC database. The ED numbers for sources in Resources in Education
(RIE) are included to enable you to go directly to microfiche collections for the complete
text, Dr to order the complete document from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service
(EDRS). The citations to journal articles are from the Current Index to Journals in
Education, and these articles can be acquired most economically from library collections
or through interlibrary loan.
Beginning with the sources as found in the ERIC database, these strategies and
approaches have been redesigned with a consistent format for your convenience. Each
chapter includes the following sections:
SOURCE (your reference to the original in the ERIC database)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
OBJECTIVE
PROCEDURES
PERSONAL OBSERVATION
The TRIED text is addressed to you, the teacher. In many ;nstances, the text also
addresses your students directly. These directions to the students are bulleted "+". Read
these instructions to your students, or revise them, as you prefer.
You know your students better than anyone else does. Adapt these suggestions to the
abilit; levels present in your classroom. Some of the sources were written for specific lev-
els, but they can be modified easily. Think of these chapters as recommendations from
your colleagues who TRIED them and found that they worked well. Try them yourself,
improve on them where you can, and trust your students to respond with enthusiasm.
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