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Have You Heard a Good Story Lately? Oral Tradition in America

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Resources on teaching oral tradition and Spoken Word, developed with Spoken Word artists and musicians Kevin Coval and Avery R. Young for presentations at the Illinois Association of Teachers of English Conference (IATE)  in 2003 and the CASE Conference in 2004.

RSS English A: Our Stories

  • A Return to a World Under Attack
  • Anya’s Ghost By: Vera Brosgol
  • Life Means Everything
  • Addicted to the Rush
  • The Folk of the Air
  • Living a Life of War is Living a Life Without Freedom
  • My Review of Kanan: The Last Padawan
  • The Endless Loop
  • Pills
  • A Great Sci-fi Book

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • “Here Comes the Sun” to “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”
  • “Searching” Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Analysis with “Noiseless, Patient Spider”
  • Intoxication – A Romantic Analysis
  • How Jealousy Ruins Self Image
  • Drunk on Sunshine
  • Romantic Romanticism–“For Three Years I Dreamed of You”
  • A Romantic Analysis of “The Otter”
  • “Show Yourself”- Idina Menzel and Evan Rachel Wood-Frozen II
  • The telephone and the daisy, humble sources of emotional significance
  • A Turning Point for the Woman in White

RSS American Lit: True American Stories

  • Analysis of Gone With The Wind
  • Qualifications to be pretty
  • No amount of roses or champaign will mask this blatant sexism
  • Espionage at its finest
  • The United States of Tom
  • Defiance of Female Stereotypes in “The Big Bang Theory”
  • Feminism Has Seen Stranger Things
  • Going Inside of "Inside Amy Schumer"
  • Gone Girl Feminist Critique
  • Batman And Gender Norms, A Love Story
The top image is the amazing art of Dave Gibbons from the Watchmen graphic novel (1987): Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias at his controls for understanding and manipulating the world. He takes his cultural criticism and his apocalyptic morality a bit too far -- okay, way too far! -- but we can still take inspiration from his intellectual effort, right? :)

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