Curriki's editorial staff selects resources posted by members to highlight the range of materials the Web site is making and sharing. This time the team is focusing on resources for poetry. A member has collected a variety of student-friendly teaching resources to introduce a poetry unit, including a glossary, a diagnostic, and a number of poems with related activities, among other activities and assessments.

"This article/module explores the notion that to assist "problem readers" in Trinidad and Tobago, it is necessary for teachers to have a knowledge of how language is used in the community and how communication events occur there. These can be the basis for "patterns of interaction" with texts written in English where students or learners have difficulty in reading and writing English; and where both learners and teachers are speakers of Trinidadian Creole English. These "patterns" fall within t more...

This is an experimental digital course for Trinidad and Tobago teachers in the field of Communication, Language and Literacy. It introduces teachers to explore concepts in this field of study as this relates to their social environment. This course also serves as supplementary material to the campus course LCE 134 (UTT). One aim here is to encourage the use of more self-paced, independent-study, internet resources and to have our teachers network with others by participating in online discussio more...

The course, as its title suggests, will concentrate primarily on the social significance of memorializing 9/11. The course will introduce certain main currents of social thought and will expose the learner to a range of issues of public significance.

This subject will examine the claims for and against the demise of the book, and also supplement these arguments with an historical perspective they lack: the examination of books and printing technology during the Early Modern period of European history, from roughly 1450 to 1800.This class features hypertext student projects in the projects section allowing one to post her or his own interpretation works directly online.

MIT OpenCourseWare provides free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. This site provides links to all Literature courses available (undergraduate and graduate level). For each course accessed, see left column for available resources (e.g. Syllabus, Calendar, Readings, Lecture Notes, Assignments, Study Materials). Notable for its interdisciplinary variety and for its openness to film and other forms of popular culture, the Lite more...

This subject introduces the student to some of the literary, philosophical and religious texts which became major sources of assumption about the nature of the universe and mankind's place within it and which continue to underlie the characteristically Western sense of things to this day. In particular, the subject will study closely texts from two broad ranges of texts, those of ancient Greece and some major texts of the Judeo-Christian tradition, which rivals the tradition of the ancient world more...

Complementary to 21L.001. A broad survey of texts - literary, philosophical, and sociological - studied to trace the growth of secular humanism, the loss of a supernatural perspective upon human events, and changing conceptions of individual, social, and communal purpose. Stresses appreciation and analysis of texts that came to represent the common cultural possession of our time. Enrollment limited. HASS-D, CI.

Readings this semester ranging from political theory and oratory to autobiography more...

This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles--traditional and innovative, western and nonwestern--and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms. Toward the end of the term, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between art and war in a diverse selection of works.

This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Intrinsic to this development is the growth of individualism in a world no longer understood to be at the center of the universe. The texts chosen for study exemplify the emergence of a new humanism, at once troubled and dynamic in comparison to the old. The leading theme of this course is thus the question of the differen more...