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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

  • feeling differently than everyone else?
  • The pre-requisite to the Myth of Sisyphus
  • How Migration Changes Who We Are
  • What If We Cannot Trust Our Own Memories?
  • The Problem With Being Different in The Stranger
  • What Not to Do in a Court Case.
  • Society’s Judgment in The Stranger and Joker
  • Don’t Be Meursault!
  • How the Courtroom Rewrites Meursault’s Reality
  • The Silencing of Marie in Albert Camus’s “The Stranger”

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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