Reading, Learning, Teaching Kurt Vonnegut

Paul L. Thomas

ISBN 10: 082046337X / ISBN 13: 9780820463377

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jul 2006, 2006

About this Item

Neuware -Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of contemporary American author, Kurt Vonnegut, who offers readers and students engaging fiction and nonfiction works that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to the life and works of Vonnegut and an opportunity to explore how to bring his works into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This volume attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as English teachers through the vivid texts Vonnegut offers his readers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 182 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading, Learning, Teaching Kurt Vonnegut
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jul 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082046337X
• ISBN 13: 9780820463377
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 11D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 265 grams

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Synopsis

Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of contemporary American author, Kurt Vonnegut, who offers readers and students engaging fiction and nonfiction works that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to the life and works of Vonnegut and an opportunity to explore how to bring his works into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This volume attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as English teachers through the vivid texts Vonnegut offers his readers.

About the Author

The Author: P. L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Education at Furman University (Greenville, SC), taught English for 18 years before entering higher education. He holds an Ed.D. from the University of South Carolina and is the author of Numbers Games (Lang, 2004), Teaching Writing Primer (Lang, 2005), and Reading, Learning, Teaching Barbara Kingsolver (Lang, 2005).