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Help students to explore the intertextuality of literature and to think more deeply and compassionately about the world. This book shows high school teachers and college instructors how to foreground a work's cultural context, recognizing that every culture has its own narrative tradition of oral and written classics that inform its literature. The author introduces readers to the LIST Paradigm, a guided approach to culturally responsive reading that encourages readers to access and analyze a text by asking significant questions designed to foster close, critical reading. By combining aspects of both literary analysis (exploring the elements of fiction such as plot, setting, and character) and literary criticism (exploring works from multiple perspectives such as historical, psychological, and archetypal), the LIST Paradigm helps educators "unlock" literature with four keys to culture: Language, Identity, Space, and Time. In Culturally Responsive Reading, Washington exposes cultural myths, reveals racist and culturally biased language, dismantles stereotypes, and prevents the egregious misreading of works written by people of color. Book Features: <ul> <li>Describes a unique approach to culturally responsive reading, including specific teaching strategies and rich classroom examples.</li> <li>Explores numerous texts by writers of color that are rarely included as required reading in literature courses.</li> <li>Provides examples and illustrations of innovative ways to incorporate multicultural texts into an introductory literature course.</li> <li>Incorporates epigraphs and questions that highlight each component of the LIST approach.</li> <li>Includes a critical essay that guides teachers through the process of teaching a complex postmodern novel (Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao).</li> </ul>

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Cliffs Notes Series)

The CliffsNotes study guide on Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read A Lesson Before Dying. Reading a literary work doesn't mean that you immediately grasp the major themes and devices used by the author; this study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more. For further information on Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying, check out the CliffsNotes Resource Center at www.cliffsnotes.com. IN THIS AUDIOBOOK - Learn about the Life and Background of the author - Hear an Introduction to A Lesson Before Dying - Explore themes, character development, and recurring images in the Critical Commentaries - Learn new words from the Glossary at the end of each Chapter - Examine in-depth Character Analyses - Acquire an understanding of A Lesson Before Dying with Critical Essays - Reinforce what you learn to further your study online at www.cliffsnotes.com

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (CliffsNotes)

A Lesson Before Dying (CliffsNotes)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Cliffs Notes Series)

A Lesson Before Dying (Cliffs Notes Series)

A Lesson Before Dying (Cliffs Notes Series)