Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature

by Roxanne M. Kent-Drury

Overview

Presenting web sites from around the world covering much of the world's literature, this book provides creative and interesting thinking activities to enhance student understanding of literature and culture and to promote critical thinking. This book will be very useful to teachers of world history and literature at the senior high school and undergraduate level. Part of a well reviewed series of titles Using Internet Primary Sources to Promote Critical Thinking, carries on the tradition of excellence in instructional tools. Grades 9-12.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313320095
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/30/2005
Series:	Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Roxanne M. Kent-Drury is an Associate Professor in the Literature and Language Department at Northern Kentucky University, where she teaches courses in early world literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic and British literature, and the literature of early exploration and travel. She is also a frequent reviewer for Addison-Wesley-Longman, most recently on its cultural studies-based anthologies of British and world literature. Her publications include articles on exploration and travel, eighteenth-century drama and performance, and professional writing. Most recently, she co-authored a book essay with Gordon Sayre, Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality, for the Modern Language Association's Teaching Robinson Crusoe, forthcoming in March 2005.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Purpose
Intended Audience
Defining Primary Sources
Defining Critical Thinking
Site Selection Criteria
Organization
Legend
2 Locating and Evaluating Internet Resources
Information Literacy Education
Evaluating Online Resources
Choosing a Search Engine
3 Tools of Literary Analysis
Literary Guides
Genre Theory
Literary Theory
4 Major Resources of General Interdisciplinary Interest
Portals
E-Text Sites
Reference Sites
Maps
Projects
Teaching Resources
Linguistics
Art
Philosophy
Heroic Literature
5 Religion and Folklore
Introduction
Religion Sites of General Interest
Pre-Christian Religions by Region
Classical Greek and Roman Mythology
Pre-Christian Norse and Germanic Religion
Contemporary Religions and Their Historical Roots
Judaism
Christianity
Islam and the Islamic World
Asian Religions and Belief Systems
Hinduism
Folklore
Folktales from Around the World
Fables
6 The Ancient World
Key Sites of General Interest
Technology and Iconography of Writing
Papyrology
Key Authors, Genres, and Texts
7 Classical Greek and Roman Literature
Classics Sites of General Interest
Epigraphy
Mapping
Classical People and Places
Art and Architecture
Greek Theater
Author-Specific Sites
Homer
Plato
Vergil
Horace
Ovid
8 Europe: Before Print
Mega-Sites
Saga and Epic
Manuscripts and Visual Art
Cultural Backgrounds
The Age of Chivalry
Specific Authors
9 Early Modern to Contemporary Europe
10 Non-European World Literatures
Transnational/Intercultural Projects
Sites of Regional Interest
Africa
Asia
Latin America
Near (Middle) East
South Asia
Index
Site Index

Editorial Reviews

[K]ent-Drury offers a long-awaited and much-needed tool for teachers and instructors of high school and college world literature. The text is a resource for those educators who have received one too many papers based on poor information gleaned from Internet resources….[a]n excellent primary reference text. Kent-Drury's volume is the latest of the Libraries Unlimited series that offers creative assistance for high school and college teachers in the area of Critical Thinking. Although the text is most readily a resource, it would be an excellent complimentary tool for a pedagogical course for instructors.” —Kentucky Philological Review

“This title gathers quality Web sites together in one place and amkes suggestions for activities to do with students….Teachers would be impressed by the ease of looking up a topic in the index and finding a quality site to use with their students.” —Library Media Connection

“The number of sites presented is substantial and the quality of the imformation provided is outstanding. Sites range from The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Musuem to Middle Eastern Mystical Poetry to World Art Web Kiosk. This resource will be most valuable for teachers of world history and literature and their students. Other works in this series will be of invaluable assistance to teachers in other disciplines.” —Kliatt

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