Beyond the Bookroom: Modern Literature, Modern Literacy, and the Teaching of E. Annie Proulx’ The Shipping News

Vicky Greenbaum

doi:10.58680/ej19973478

ISSN: 0013-8274
E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Beyond the Bookroom: Modern Literature, Modern Literacy, and the Teaching of E. Annie Proulx’ The Shipping News
Author(s): Vicky Greenbaum
Source: English Journal, Volume 86, Issue 8, Dec 1997, p. 17 - 20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/ej19973478
- Published online: 01 Dec 1997

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Notes that the author likes to involve her students in the evolving literary canon. Uses “The Shipping News” (E. Annie Proulx, 1993) as a model to illustrate why and how a new book enters the classroom. Describes introducing it, analyzing sentence structure in voice, character analysis, metaphor, writing assignments, and other teachers’ experience.

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