Reader Response Makes History.

Shafer, Gregory

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ERIC Number: EJ557971

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Reader Response Makes History.

Shafer, Gregory

English Journal, v86 n7 p65-68 Nov 1997

Describes an interdisciplinary unit that brought the Civil War to life for 11th-grade students in a team-taught unit that highlighted student-driven response to reading. Describes use of a 19th-century essay supporting slavery, Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle,""Huckleberry Finn," Civil War poetry and other writings, and student projects based on the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. (SR)

Descriptors: Civil War (United States), English Instruction, Grade 11, High Schools, History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response, United States Literature, Units of Study

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue: Interdisciplinary English.