Death in the classroom
Subtitle: writing about love and loss
By: Jeffrey Berman.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791476314
Subjects: Death -- Psychological aspects -- Study and teaching; Death in literature -- Study and teaching; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting started; title: Writing an obituary; title: Writing a eulogy; title: On teaching the book of Job-and being denounced as a "false prophet"; title: Writing on religion and death; title: Cathy's letter to her deceased mother in Wuthering Heights; title: The second anniversary of Barbara's death, another problem with a student, and evaluating the evaluator; title: Ten things to do before I die; title: Writing about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide; title: Writing about Jeff's former students in empathic teaching; title: A teacher's self-eulogy.