From Annenberg Learner comes a wealth of resources designed to help high school students engage in fiction and poetry via four different pedagogical strategies: reader response, inquiry, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy. The Expanding Canon features a number of detailed videos designed to familiarize teachers with these four methods of literary analysis along with strategies for how they might engage young readers with each approach in a classroom setting. The site also features author profiles for a number of writers that teachers might consider including in the classroom, such as poet Pat Mora, novelist and memoirist Esmeralda Santiago, and science fiction author Octavia Butler. Teachers can also download PDFs of a variety of readings for classroom activities. These resources are organized into "sessions" matching each pedagogical strategy and can be used collectively or integrated independently into a language arts classroom. While designed with high school students in mind, many of these resources would also work well with adult learners.
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