Literature suggestions/5 paragraph prompts

Hi Carolyn Lunger thanks for reaching out. When you say literature do you mean a textbook or other supplemental readings? Depending on your goals and class needs there are lots of good textbooks but I’ve found that the OER readings do a great job of giving my students the information they need (so I’ve ditched my textbook when using this course). 

In regards to your question about the essay, anything labeled as an LEQ is what you’re looking for.

Hope this helps!

I feel like something I've had a lot of success with is connecting with the English teacher to see what some books they are teaching and try to incorporate and collab with them on a book that takes place during a time period I'm covering and then bring that content into my own class. So like for example we do Persepolis because it does a great job helping to illustrate the Iranian revolution, and I can tie it into our content, but then it also is something they read for English, and they can dive into medium and literary elements in English. Me and the English teacher try and line it up so that the kids are reading it at the same time that we're covering it, and we can bring that content in in both our classes. So I would say step one would be just to see like, is your english department teaching any books or texts that are historical in nature that could plug in to a topic you are covering?

Literature-meaning non fiction stories about that time period

I do not want textbooks. I want good, wholesome, rich literature about that time period. 

For non-fiction, primary sources, I strongly recommend the searchable Library of Congress.  For example, here are primary sources on the Industrial Revolution, located there.  I like Docs Teach for WWI resources, especially letters. Here are some good ones on The Vietnam War.

Hi Freda Anderson, I teach 9th grade WHy and have aligned lessons with our 9th grade English Teacher too.  For fiction set in historical place and time we've done Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.  Persepolis is a memoir, and a good one, but there's a drawing of a man urinating on someone (shows genitalia), and we didn't go there. (sigh).

Chat gpt gave me thisL::

Do you know any of these?

It looks like many teachers have offered options for books. I am including possible writing prompts, but it would help to know what age group or year in school you will be teaching. 

5 paragraph essay prompts: 

1. Analyze how industrialization affected social class and labor movements in the 19th century.
2. Discuss the impact of World War I or II on the role of women in society
3. Explore how a specific technological advancement from 1750 to the present changed global society.

I don’t see many teachers responding - just two. Where are the many responses? Am I missing something here?

Hi  Carolyn Lunger Mohicans, Shandy, Moral, and Orestes are canonical - so I do know them; but for many Lit teachers, the canon is out of vogue for various reasons - characterization of indigenous people, clunky language, length, complexity.  My suggestion is to ask lit teachers of you grade levels  for their themes or time periods and go from there (is your class 8th grade and studying world lit or 12th grade and doing British lit, for example.).