Teaching Units and Ideas

Juvenilia in the classroom: teaching unit ideas

Introduction to a particular author: Austen, Laurence, Atwood, Brontë, Eliot, Carroll
Literary and cultural contexts: Bronte, Shields, Wiebe, Doyle, Vaughan, Hewett
Autobiography, Diaries and Journals: Vaughan, Doyle, Hook
Introduction to the epistolary novel: Austen, Wortley Montagu
Beginnings with poetry: Larkin, Laurence, Atwood, Whiteley, Hewett
Introduction to satire, or, is this supposed to be funny?: Austen, Brontë, Carroll
Introduction to the essay of comparison: contrast any author
Writing a scholarly introduction or preface: any author
Style and revisions: what difference does it make? Austen
Introduction to the gothic novel: Bronte, Austen
Introduction to Canadian literature: Whiteley, Atwood, Early Voices
Introduction to Australian literature: Hewett, Bruce
Early masculinities: Carroll, Branwell Brontë, Lowry, Larkin
Internet research: Austen's Catharine
Thinking about style; close readings and commentaries: Atwood, Laurence, Egerton, Austen

Audience and purpose: why authors write the way they do
Visual literacy: reading illustrations, representing literature
Creative Writing: identifying and exploring some of the challenges apprentice writers set for themselves
Influence, Imitation, Interrogation, and Parody: writing as response to writing by others
Image of the Child and historical context