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

Coming soon!

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

  • All American Boys
  • Lord of the Flies (book update)
  • The Butcher [Reading Update]
  • The Loop Reading Update #3
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer-Characters and Conflicts

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • How To Get Through Beloved
  • Exit West and Making The Most of A Situation
  • Nothing But Animals: An Exit West Analysis
  • Capture vs Freedom in The Stranger
  • Exit West: Fantasy and Immigration

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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