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Creating A New Standard: Living, Learning, And Teaching In Southern Appalachia, Martha Holt
Creating A New Standard: Living, Learning, And Teaching In Southern Appalachia, Martha Holt
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
This portfolio, submitted in fulfillment of an MA in English with a teaching specialization, explores teaching and living in southern Appalachia. The papers include a defense of literary studies, a pedagogical piece on the use of code-switching, dialect, and the vernacular in today’s classrooms, a lesson plan and materials to introduce high school students to writing the academic memoir, and an example of the academic memoir which explores the personal and long-lasting effects of verbal and emotional abuse.