The Cavaliers and why? 

How can we teach the Cavaliers

Reader Response

New Criticism

Essay 

Working Bibliography (An annotated bibliography for Wr. 316) 

Cavalier discussion

Project for Wr. 316/Engl. 339

Beloved 

     High School students are preparing to face many challenges in life; these students may be seen as studying to either enter college or go on into the workplace facing life's struggles without further formal education. Whichever path the student decides on, we as teachers must give them the best tools we can in order to make the decisions that they face now, during the time of their high school career, and later in life. Those students eager to continue their academic career should be given the opportunity to study a wide variety of literature so that they will have a clear understanding of what they will face in their college studies.

As we decide on what literary texts to teach to the students, there are many considerations we must face in order to find what will best help them in the choices they may make on entering either college or the workplace. Specifically the teacher will have to look at what literature will best help the student facing academia in the college setting, or what literary texts will help students entering the workplace better face decisions they will have to make including those of a moral nature.   The students will find themselves facing many different moral lifestyle choices as well as academic. We must consider all forms of literature in order to find what texts may convey the right message to the student and what texts will help them understand what literature is and can do for them. We may want to work with a text that demonstrates the value system of another culture,  recounts a historical view of a culture, or the communicative system of another culture.

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