The Editor Shares Her Teaching Notes
Teaching Elaine Neil Orr’s Swimming Between Worlds Topics for class discussion GROUP DISCUSSIONS TEAM Tacker TEAM Kate
Teaching NC Lit
These are teachers’ narratives, lesson plans, and further information for using North Carolina literature to teach various subjects in grades K-12 and at the college level.
Teaching Randall Kenan:
“The students produced over eighty single-space pages of notes, conversation, analysis, and insight. At sixty thousand words, they had written a book. And because our class read all of A Visitation of Spirits, Let the Dead Bury their Dead, and If I Had Two Wings, they were often writing about stories that have been slighted or ignored by other literary critics.”
Curing Amnesia: Teaching a YA Novel about the 1898 Coup d’etat in North Carolina
“Grimsley’s allusions to multiple sorts of 1970s queerness evidence his continued interest in parallel times and in terms that evoke the slippery and shifting interpretations and possibilities in our world….”
Field Trip to Wilmington
Wrapping up the semester After imagining the massacre and coup in Marrow, reckoning with it in Wilmington’s Lie, and finally, recovering the stories in the… Read More »Field Trip to Wilmington
Weeks 11–15: Archival Research
Wilmington Daily Record The final third of this blended course is actually a years-long project: recovering the history and stories of Black Wilmington before the… Read More »Weeks 11–15: Archival Research
Weeks 1–5 Assignment
The literary analysis unit ends with the students researching and writing a four-source annotated bibliography on scholarly articles that approach The Marrow of Tradition from… Read More »Weeks 1–5 Assignment
Weeks 1–5: Discussion Boards
Each week students respond to a Discussion Board prompt on Canvas. Their mini essays serve as the springboard for the week’s conversations. These Discussion Board… Read More »Weeks 1–5: Discussion Boards
Weeks 6–10: Overview
Wilmington’s Lie: Historical and Cultural Analysis Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition allows the students to get to know the characters of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre,… Read More »Weeks 6–10: Overview
Weeks 6-10: Discussion Boards
Just as we did in the literary analysis unit, the five weeks we are devoting to historical and cultural analysis of the massacre and its… Read More »Weeks 6-10: Discussion Boards
Weeks 1–5: Overview
The Marrow of Tradition: Literary Analysis Before we begin reading the novel, I have a discussion with the students about the concept of “hard history”… Read More »Weeks 1–5: Overview