Reading, Learning, Teaching Ralph Ellison

Paul L. Thomas

ISBN 10: 1433100908 / ISBN 13: 9781433100901

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Apr 2008, 2008

About this Item

Neuware -Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of African American author Ralph Ellison, who offers readers and students engaging fiction and non-fiction that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to Ellison's works and an opportunity to explore how to bring them into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This book attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as instructors of literature through the vivid texts Ellison offers his readers. 152 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading, Learning, Teaching Ralph Ellison
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Apr 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433100908
• ISBN 13: 9781433100901
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 160H x 9D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 244 grams

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Synopsis

Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of African American author Ralph Ellison, who offers readers and students engaging fiction and non-fiction that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to Ellison’s works and an opportunity to explore how to bring them into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This book attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as instructors of literature through the vivid texts Ellison offers his readers.

About the Author

The Author: P. L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Education at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina), taught high school English for eighteen years before entering higher education. He holds an Ed.D. from the University of South Carolina and has published Numbers Games (2004) and Teaching Writing Primer (2005), both with Peter Lang. He edits the series Confronting the Text, Confronting the World, in which he has authored volumes on Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood.