My students need 40 copies of "How to Read Literature Like a Professor".
$650 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My students are taking an important academic step; they are tackling challenging honors/AP level English literature classes with the hopes of getting admitted to college. Many will be the first in their family to graduate. This book helps a student unveil the enduring message as they read.
My students are dedicated to their education.
Most are hard working students who dream of going to college and pursuing their dream jobs. Unfortunately, grade level reading remains difficult, reading between the lines in great books remains challenging, and identifying and understanding the subtleties, nuances, and complexities in novels, plays, and poems of literary merit is quite difficult. My students remain determined, however, and push through the challenge. For many students in my class, English is not their first language or their is nobody at home to help with literary analysis.
My students have accepted the challenge of enrolling in challenging honors and AP classes and will do as much as possible to learn and succeed.
My Project
In this valuable handbook for English literature students Foster, a professor of English at the University of Michigan encourages readers to explore multiple meanings when reading literary works rather than settle for a surface interpretation. The "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" book has amusing and educational chapters that focus on literary sources from mythology to Shakespeare to contemporary as well as themes and symbols ranging from vampires to baptism to food, and literary forms like the sonnet and drama. The book makes you want to read and discuss literature as it takes you on a journey of literature, plays, and poems while keeping the tone delightfully informal and conversational.
This book will allow my students to hear another approach to literary analysis, and from a college professor!
The short chapters really shed light on making connections between the what of a literary work and the how the author achieved it. This valuable resource will build confidence in my students as they work their way towards college and career.
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