| RWLO Title |
Student Materials |
Description |
Author |
| The Grapes of Wrath |
Student Directions and Additional Materials |
Students will view and analyze selected historic photos and documents taken during Great Depression, identify what moment or scene in the novel it could be a picture of, and create a report album documenting a self-selected scene or moment from the book. |
Joshua Koen, Instructional Technology Specialist, Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Historical Analysis of Shakespeare’s Macbeth |
Student Directions and Additional Materials |
Students will read a historical analysis of Macbeth written by Sigmund Freud in 1916 and respond to questions about the importance of knowing a reviewer’s point of view. |
Joshua Koen, Instructional Technology Specialist, Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Understanding the Writing Process through Walt Whitman's Notebooks |
Student Directions and Additional Materials |
Students investigate the writing process by reviewing how Whitman revised and refined his ideas and poems as he wrote using digitally archived notebooks from the Library of Congress. |
Joshua Koen, Instructional Technology Specialist, Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Alien Encounters: Writing about the "Other" |
Student directions |
Many of the earliest texts in American Literature were inspired by a kind of "first contact" -- the encounter between Europeans and Natives. This RWLO provides students with context for this encounter through exploring UFO/Alien Abduction web sites looking for common traits of these encounters with "the other." |
Ray Lacina, Assistant Professor, Delta College |
| Exploring Historical Fiction in a College-Level Children’s Literature Class: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (.doc) |
See Word document |
Students access various resources from
the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in September, 1963 to acquire a better sense of the author’s writing process and the historical backdrop of
The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis, enriching their experience of the novel and its historical and social implications. |
Maria K. Kendig, Instructor,
Monroe Community College |
Language Arts RWLOs: Literature
