Powerpoints
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Is Art Necessary?
I use this slideshow with Audre Lorde’s “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” plus quotes from Marcuse, Plato, and Oscar Wilde.
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Peer Review
I recommend using this with a feedback menu.
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How to “essay”
I like to precede this lesson by having students read Cheryl Strayed’s introduction to Best American Essays of 2013, which offers her thoughts on the genre. Though the slides refer to Strayed’s introduction, you may use them even with students who haven’t read the essay.
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Intro to Analysis & the Humanities
Prior to this introduction, I like to have my students read page 1-3 of John Ciardi and Miller Williams’ How Does a Poem Mean? but it’s not necessary to do so. The epigraph to those pages is an excerpt from Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, in which a school master asks his students to explain what…
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Blacklisted Writers
I use this with Toni Morrison’s “Peril” essay.
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Banned Books
I show these slides when we discuss “Peril,” the preface to Toni Morrison’s The Source of Self-Regard.