Appalachia in the classroom: teaching the region
by Burriss, Theresa L. Gantt, Patricia M.
This book contributes to the twenty-first century dialogue about Appalachia by offering topics and teaching strategies that represent the diversity found within the region. Appalachia is a distinctive region with various cultural characteristics that can't be essentialized or summed up by a single text. The book offers chapters on teaching Appalachian poetry and fiction as well as discussions of nonfiction, films, and folklore. Educators will find teaching strategies that they can readily imple…
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- Full title :Appalachia in the classroom : teaching the region / edited by Theresa L. Burriss and Patricia M. Gantt.
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This book contributes to the twenty-first century dialogue about Appalachia by offering topics and teaching strategies that represent the diversity found within the region. Appalachia is a distinctive region with various cultural characteristics that can't be essentialized or summed up by a single text. The book offers chapters on teaching Appalachian poetry and fiction as well as discussions of nonfiction, films, and folklore. Educators will find teaching strategies that they can readily implement in their own classrooms.
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- Publication Date:2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ohio University Press
- Place of Publication:Athens, Ohio
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxi, 280 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780821444566, 0821444565, 0821420410, 9780821420416, 0821420429, 9780821420423
- oclc:ocn857079054
- LC Classification:F106
- Dewey Decimal:974.071/1
Table of Contents
Intro to Appalachian studies : navigating myths of Appalachian exceptionalism / Emily Satterwhite -- Listening to Black Appalachian laundrywomen : teaching with photographs, letters, diaries, and lost voices / Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt -- The southern highlands according to Hollywood : teaching Appalachian history through film / John C. Inscoe -- Building bridges with Ron Rash's The world made straight : results from one university and high school partnership / Erica Abrams Locklear -- The feast hall, the arsenal, and the mirror : teaching literature to students at risk / Jeff Mann -- I hear Appalachia singing : teaching Appalachian literature in a general education American literature course / Linda Tate -- "Way back yonder" but not so far away : teaching Appalachian folktales / Tina L. Hanlon -- Teaching modern Appalachia in Wilma Dykeman's The Far family / Patricia M. Gantt -- Fred Chappell's I am one of you forever as a subject for literary analysis and an alternative image of mid-twentieth-century Appalachia / Ricky L. Cox -- Startling morals : teaching ecofiction with Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer / Felicia Mitchell -- Appalachian poetry : a field guide for teachers /…
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