Roxanne M. Kent-Drury

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting web sites from around the world covering much of the world's literature, this book provides creative and interesting thinking activities to enhance student understanding of literature and culture and to promote critical thinking. This book will be very useful to teachers of world history and literature at the senior high school and undergraduate level. Part of a well reviewed series of titles Using Internet Primary Sources to Promote Critical Thinking, carries on the tradition of excellence in instructional tools. Grades 9-12.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313068652
• Artikelnr.: 68527986

Autorenporträt

Roxanne M. Kent-Drury is an Associate Professor in the Literature and Language Department at Northern Kentucky University, where she teaches courses in early world literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic and British literature, and the literature of early exploration and travel. She is also a frequent reviewer for Addison-Wesley-Longman, most recently on its cultural studies-based anthologies of British and world literature. Her publications include articles on exploration and travel, eighteenth-century drama and performance, and professional writing. Most recently, she co-authored a book essay with Gordon Sayre, Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality, for the Modern Language Association's Teaching Robinson Crusoe, forthcoming in March 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Purpose Intended Audience Defining Primary
Sources Defining Critical Thinking Site Selection Criteria Organization
Legend 2 Locating and Evaluating Internet Resources Information Literacy
Education Evaluating Online Resources Choosing a Search Engine 3 Tools of
Literary Analysis Literary Guides Genre Theory Literary Theory 4 Major
Resources of General Interdisciplinary Interest Portals E-Text Sites
Reference Sites Maps Projects Teaching Resources Linguistics Art Philosophy
Heroic Literature 5 Religion and Folklore Introduction Religion Sites of
General Interest Pre-Christian Religions by Region Classical Greek and
Roman Mythology Pre-Christian Norse and Germanic Religion Contemporary
Religions and Their Historical Roots Judaism Christianity Islam and the
Islamic World Asian Religions and Belief Systems Hinduism Folklore
Folktales from Around the World Fables 6 The Ancient World Key Sites of
General Interest Technology and Iconography of Writing Papyrology Key
Authors, Genres, and Texts 7 Classical Greek and Roman Literature Classics
Sites of General Interest Epigraphy Mapping Classical People and Places Art
and Architecture Greek Theater Author-Specific Sites Homer Plato Vergil
Horace Ovid 8 Europe: Before Print Mega-Sites Saga and Epic Manuscripts and
Visual Art Cultural Backgrounds The Age of Chivalry Specific Authors 9
Early Modern to Contemporary Europe 10 Non-European World Literatures
Transnational/Intercultural Projects Sites of Regional Interest Africa Asia
Latin America Near (Middle) East South Asia Index Site Index