Reading, Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood

Literature that confronts our students' assumptions about the world and about text is the lifeblood of English classes in American high schools and colleges. Margaret Atwood offers works in a wide variety of genres that fulfill that need. This volume introduces readers, students, and teachers to the life and works of Atwood while also suggesting a variety of ways in which her works can become valuable additions to classroom experiences with literature and writing. Furthermore, this volume confronts how and why we teach English through Atwood's writing.

About the author

The Author: P. L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Education at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina), edits the Confronting the Text, Confronting the World series for which he has written volumes on Barbara Kingsolver and Kurt Vonnegut. He taught high school English for eighteen years and now works in teacher education. He is also the author of Teaching Writing Primer (Lang, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: P. L. Thomas, Paul L. Thomas
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780820486710
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-8671-0
• No. of pages: 146
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 9 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 230 g
• Series: Confronting the Text, Confronting the World; Confronting the Text, Confronting the World
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology