Renée H. Shea, Deborah L. Wilchek

Broschiertes Buch

Amy Tan in the Classroom

"The art of invisible strength"

Beschreibung

Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate. Since the publication of The Joy Luck Club in 1989, Amy Tan has become one of the most widely taught contemporary authors in high schools. Her fiction and nonfiction, with their timeless themes of family, culture, survival, and history, have made Tan a favorite of high school English teachers across the country. In Amy Tan in the Classroom, you'll discover new ways to share the work of this important author with your students. Immensely practical, the book uses an activity-based approach to teaching both the print and film versions of The Joy Luck Club, as well as the nonfiction The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. This volume features numerous resources and strategies for helping your students engage with Tan's writing. Highlights include biographical information, critical analysis of Tan's work, teacher-tested activities, writing assignments, and discussion questions, as well as an extensive unit on teaching and analyzing the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength" is a useful resource that will enliven your literature classroom with exciting and enriching student-centered activities.

Autor

Renée H. Shea is professor of English at Bowie State University, part of the University System of Maryland and one of the oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Formerly director of English composition, she currently teaches courses in world literature, American autobiography, women's studies, and rhetoric. She is also a member of both the honors and the graduate faculty. Former chair of the NCTE Committee on Comparative and World Literature, she is currently a member of the Commission on Literature. She has worked with the College Board's Advanced Placement English Program for over twenty-five years and coauthored Teaching Nonfiction in AP English: A Guide to Accompany 50 Essays (with Lawrence Scanlon). She chairs the Essay Committee for the GED exam and has consulted on assessment issues for school districts and private organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Shea has written extensively on contemporary women writers (including Rita Dove, Edwidge Danticat, Sandra Cisneros, Grace Paley, Julia Alvarez, and Maxine Hong Kingston) in such publications as Poets & Writers, Women in the Arts, and Callaloo. She is the author of two college textbooks, Essay: Reading with the Writer's Eye (with Hans Guth) and A Practical Rhetoric for College Writers (with Evelyn Taylor).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780814101483
• ISBN-10: 0814101488
• Artikelnr.: 25534727