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The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum
What Secondary English Teachers Can Do
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2012
Summary
This book is addressed to teachers who know that the secondary literature curriculum in our public schools is in shambles. Unless experienced and well-read English teachers can develop coherent and increasingly demanding literature curricula in their schools, average high school students will remain at about the fifth or sixth grade reading level--where they now are to judge from several independent sources. This book seeks to challenge education policy makers, test developers, and educators who discourage the assignment of appropriately difficult works to high school students and make construction of a coherent literature curriculum impossible. It first traces the history of the literature curriculum in our middle schools and high schools and shows how it has been diminished and distorted in the past half-century. It then offers examples of coherent literature curricula and spells out the cognitive principles upon which coherence is based. Finally, it suggests what English teachers in our public schools could do to develop a literature curriculum that gives all their students an adequate basis for participation in an English-speaking civic culture.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-61048-558-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-61048-559-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
198
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List of Tables No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1. What Reading Programs for Incoming College Freshmen Imply No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 2. What the 2010 National Literature Survey Found No access Pages 15 - 38
Chapter 3. The Demise of a Coherent and Demanding Literature Curriculum No access Pages 39 - 52
Chapter 4. Abandonment of Intellectual Goals in the Literature Class No access Pages 53 - 68
Chapter 5. How NCTE Encouraged Deeper Literary Chaos No access Pages 69 - 90
Chapter 6. How an Incoherent Literature Curriculum Slows Down Intellectual Growth No access Pages 91 - 102
Chapter 7. How Two Learning Theories Further Cripple Literary Study No access Pages 103 - 124
Chapter 8. How to Create Coherent Sequences of Informational Texts No access Pages 125 - 140
Chapter 9. Principles for Coherent Literature Sequences No access Pages 141 - 156
Chapter 10. Doing the “Right Thing”: Comedy and Political Satire in Grade 8 No access Pages 157 - 170
Chapter 11. Introducing Close Reading in High School English Classes No access Pages 171 - 182
Chapter 12. What Should English Teachers Do? No access Pages 183 - 196
