Literature and life
Subtitle: making connections in the classroom
By: Patricia Phelan, editor.
Contributors: Phelan, Patricia.
Series: Classroom practices in teaching English -- v. 25.
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Urbana, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Literature -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The collaborating and creating connection with literature. Making connections through literature / Charles J. Nolan, Jr.; title: Developing the social conscience through literature / Peter Smagorinsky; title: Connecting with literature : activities for The cay and The bedspread / Vicki L. Olson; title: Using journals and small groups to explore literature / JoAnna Stephens Mink; title: Poetry to engage the person / Nancy Gorrell; title: "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" : a classroom experiment in literary response / Mary Alice Delia; title: Making sense of poetry through constructing, collaborating, and imitating / Jeff Golub; title: Literature on the screen : film adaptations in the classroom / Peter S. Gardner; title: The dinner party : how to breathe life into literature / Chella Courington Livingston; title: Portraying and interpreting literature through art / Jill Hamilton; title: The Sophocles connection / Mary Cobb; title: Drama as a way into poetry / Elizabeth Komar.; title: (cont.)  Moral dilemmas and Death of a salesman / Eva Kafka Barron and David N. Sosland; title: The reading and writing connection with literature. The reader's work : learning through enactment / Richard Jenseth; title: Ambiguous texts in teaching the reading of literature / Miriam B. Mandel; title: Students and literature : intimate friends / Maureen H.A. Morrissey; title: Engaging students with literature  / Robin Auslander Grusko; title: A marriage of form and content : teaching Twelve angry men / Ken Hogarty; title: Using junior high readers' poetry preferences in the classroom / Karen Kutiper, Richard F. Abrahamson; title: Deconstructing the multiple-choice test / Thomas McKendy; title: Cowboys, cowgirls, and literary criticism / Anne Sherrill; title: Listening : an invitation to literacy / Wendy Rodgers Clark; title: Action books as story retelling prompts / Gerry Bohning; title: Writing poetry in response to literature / Penelope Bryant Turk; title: Style from the inside out / Patricia P. Kelly.; title: (cont.)  Creating text : students connecting with literature / Leila Christenbury; title: Helping students discover their private texts / Leroy Perkins; title: An approach to critical writing : begin with contradictions / Janet Bean-Thompson.