Teaching Materials: Archive

What you see below is an archive of teaching materials, organized by the name and number of the course for which they were designed. Simply find a course you're teaching and start browsing handouts and lesson plans. Alternately, if you're looking for stuff you can use in any English course, check out the "General Materials" section.

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General Materials

• Argumentation
• Handout - Creating an Argument
• Presentation - Composing a Thesis
• Close Reading
• Handout - Close Reading
• Handout - Reading Poetry Technically
• Composition
• Activity - Paper Revision Exercise
• Activity - Sentence Revision Exercise
• Handout - Notes Toward Writing a Good English Paper
• Handout - Postmortem Checklist and Self-Assessment

ENG 101: Freshman Seminar

• Syllabi
• Syllabus - The Many Wests of the United States
• Paper Assignments
• Paper Assignment - Argumentative Article Review
• Paper Assignment - Critical Essay
• Paper Assignment - Keyword Essay

ENG 105: Expository Writing

• Syllabi
• Syllabus - Composition and Coming of Age
• Syllabus - Higher Education and the Human Body

ENG 211: Introduction to Poetry

• Diction (Gwendolyn Brooks, C.K. Williams, Robert Frost)
• Lesson Plan - Gwendolyn Brooks, C.K. Williams, Robert Frost, and Diction
• Meter (Limericks)
• Lesson Plan - Limericks and Meter

ENG 234: Introduction to Shakespeare

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• Lesson Plan - Romeo and Juliet and Making an Argument

ENG 270-2: American Literary Traditions, Part II

• Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener
• Lesson Plan - Introductions and Herman Melville
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Lesson Plan - Harriet Jacobs and Literariness
• Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Lesson Plan - Huck Finn and Making an Argument

ENG 273: Introduction to 20th-Century American Literature

• Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
• Lesson Plan and Handout - Hemingway and Close Reading
• Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
• Handout - Introductions and Langston Hughes
• Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
• Lesson Plan and Handout - Pynchon and Song Lyrics