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ERIC Number: EJ559430
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
Beyond the Bookroom: Modern Literature, Modern Literacy, and the Teaching of E. Annie Proulx'"The Shipping News."
Greenbaum, Vicky
English Journal, v86 n8 p17-20 Dec 1997
Notes that the author likes to involve her students in the evolving literary canon. Uses "The Shipping News" (E. Annie Proulx, 1993) as a model to illustrate why and how a new book enters the classroom. Describes introducing it, analyzing sentence structure in voice, character analysis, metaphor, writing assignments, and other teachers' experience. (SR)
Descriptors: Contemporary Literature, English Instruction, Language Arts, Literature Appreciation, Novels, Secondary Education
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Literary Canon
Note: Theme Issue: New Voices: The Canon of the Future.