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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

  • Today, Tonight, Tomorrow
  • Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
  • REAMDE Book Review – Neal Stephenson
  • Book Update: The Electric Kingdom
  • enders game

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • From Big Foot to Astrology: Uncovering the Interconnectedness of Olga Tokarczuk’s Novel and William Blake’s Work
  • Animals or People?
  • Dentistry and Vodka
  • White Women Tears
  • Janina is no Better than the Rest of Them

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
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, but we can still take inspiration from his intellectual effort, right? :)

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