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Poetry Unit (2-4th Grade), Samara Sance, Lisa Schmidt
Poetry Unit (2-4th Grade), Samara Sance, Lisa Schmidt
Understanding by Design: Complete Collection
This unit covers a range of poetry topics covered throughout grades 2nd-4th. The focus of the unit is on the structure and elements of poetry such as rhyme, imagery, and playful language. Topics include, limericks, cinquain, haiku, and free verse.
The Kite Runner (11th Grade), Alice Bilbrey
The Kite Runner (11th Grade), Alice Bilbrey
Understanding by Design: Complete Collection
This three week unit for 11th grade English (American Literature) is for the assigned summer reading novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The first goal of the unit is to introduce the students to the concept that the established American literary canon has evolved to include diverse authors with myriad experiences and from different backgrounds. Furthermore, the lessons in this unit will introduce the concept that all language functions as rhetoric and is, essentially, an argument. Students will continue to revisit this concept throughout the year. Finally, students will explore three major themes of The Kite Runner: power/privilege, injustice, …
Homeward Bound: Wordsworth, Shelley, And The Long Search For Home, Samantha Heffner
Homeward Bound: Wordsworth, Shelley, And The Long Search For Home, Samantha Heffner
English Honors Theses
Romanticism has often inspired questions about itinerancy, displacement, and nostalgia, with scholars such as Stuart Curran and Kevis Goodman arguing that the period is defined by placelessness and, as a result of that, homesickness. Yet, despite the implicit existence of a home in relation to these concepts, “home” as a place, or as a feeling, has not been so thoroughly explored in much of the literature. My thesis addresses the issues of home and belonging, with special attention to the role of nostalgia, as well as biographical aspects of the authors’ lives. Specifically, in my project, I am looking at …