Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in English Literature

by Johnson, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780313318511
• ISBN10: 0313318514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in English Literature comprises a collection of chapters, each providing a main website URL and a summary of the site, and accompanied by questions and activities that will help students to develop critical thinking skills. The book covers many types of English literature, including early-English verse stories and letters, poetry, drama, novels, and essays, all organized chronologically and alphabetically by English-speaking nations, then chronologically and alphabetically by authors. This logical organization allows students to see the progression of literature historically, by region, and by writers. Classic authors are represented by standouts such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, T.S. Eliot, Anne Bradstreet, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck. Featured presidential poets and poet laureates include Maya Angelou and Elizabeth Bishop, while Lewis Carroll, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, and J.K. Rowling are but a few of the featured young adult authors.