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To reduce the marginalization of social studies, elementary teachers integrate social studies and language arts to maximize instruction. Music lyrics with historical content is an innovative method for integration. Studies suggest that close reading is a pedagogical tool that ai…

This thesis seeks to utilize a distant reading of seventeen essays written by James Baldwin alongside sustained close readings of three topics within those essays in order to understand why Baldwin has maintained increased popularity when the original historical context of the e…

This dissertation is a performance of, meditation on, and inquiry into the practice of close reading as it relates to the teaching, learning, and interpretation of literature. The objects of close reading include literature, the history of literary pedagogy and its relationship …