Reading, Learning, Teaching Barbara KingsolverOur English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of contemporary American author, Barbara Kingsolver, who offers readers and students engaging fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to the works of Kingsolver and an opportunity to explore how to bring those works into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This volume attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as English teachers through the vivid texts Kingsolver offers her readers. |
Contents
Barbara KingsolverConfronting the Politics of It All | 11 |
Confronting the Nonfiction Essay | 33 |
Confronting The Bean Trees Confronting the Novel | 61 |
Confronting The Poisonwood Bible | 87 |
Confronting Prodigal Summer | 111 |
Confronting Language Confronting Culture | 125 |
Confronting Reading Learning | 141 |
References | 151 |
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