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Appalachia in the Classroom : Teaching the Region /

This book contributes to the twenty-first century dialogue about Appalachia by offering topics and teaching strategies that represent the diversity found within the region. Appalachia is a distinctive region with various cultural characteristics that can't be essentialized or summed up by a sin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gantt, Patricia M., 1943-, Burriss, Theresa L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro to Appalachian studies : navigating myths of Appalachian exceptionalism / Emily Satterwhite
  • Listening to Black Appalachian laundrywomen : teaching with photographs, letters, diaries, and lost voices / Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt
  • The southern highlands according to Hollywood : teaching Appalachian history through film / John C. Inscoe
  • Building bridges with Ron Rash's The world made straight : results from one university and high school partnership / Erica Abrams Locklear
  • The feast hall, the arsenal, and the mirror : teaching literature to students at risk / Jeff Mann
  • I hear Appalachia singing : teaching Appalachian literature in a general education American literature course / Linda Tate
  • "Way back yonder" but not so far away : teaching Appalachian folktales / Tina L. Hanlon
  • Teaching modern Appalachia in Wilma Dykeman's The Far family / Patricia M. Gantt
  • Fred Chappell's I am one of you forever as a subject for literary analysis and an alternative image of mid-twentieth-century Appalachia / Ricky L. Cox
  • Startling morals : teaching ecofiction with Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer / Felicia Mitchell
  • Appalachian poetry : a field guide for teachers / R. Parks Lanier Jr
  • From Harlem home to Affrilachia : teaching the literary journey / Theresa L. Burriss
  • Teaching the poetry and prose of Marilou Awiakta / Grace Toney Edwards
  • Toward "crystal-tight arrays" : teaching the evolving art of Robert Morgan's poetry / Robert M. West.