An English teacher who is passionate about PBL and diverse world literature.
Teaching your World Literature class thematically can have so many wonderful benefits! Creating a thematic unit on love can be a great way to explore the different ways in which love is represented throughout the world’s literature. Through this unit, students can examine how different authors have used love as a theme in their works, … Continue reading Analyzing Love Through World Literature: A Thematic Unit Guide
One of the things I love most about teaching World Literature classes is that I have the opportunity to explore all kinds of media from around the world with my students. Usually, this involves texts, but we also have a great deal of fun exploring beautiful foreign films as well. In this post, I am … Continue reading 3 Foreign Films That Your High School Students Will Love
If you are looking to freshen up your World Literature novel selection, I have 4 contemporary reads that I highly suggest! Some of these novels I have written about before in more detail, so be sure to check out those posts if you want an even more detailed look at any of these books and … Continue reading 4 Contemporary Novels For Your World Lit Classroom
The book The Girl and the Goddess will check every single box you can think of when it comes to teaching World Literature or a Mythology class. Part coming of age, part survival, and part religious study of some amazing Hindu goddesses. In today’s post, I want to share with you the Hindu mythology that … Continue reading Teaching Hindu Mythology With The Girl and the Goddess
I recently wrote about my favorite mythological heroes to cover in my world literature high school classroom. Are you ready looking to dive in to a deep look at mythological heroes and their evil characters with your high school students? Check out this full unit here! I center this unit around what our heroes say … Continue reading Evil Characters In Mythology
Today I want to chat about how I like to start the year off in my World Lit class. We take a deep look into mythical heroes from several cultures and discuss how these heroes reflect the best aspects of the culture. Many people often wonder who is the greatest mythical hero of all time? … Continue reading Mythical Heroes From Around The World To Teach
Are you stuck in the same cycle of only exposing your students to Greek and Roman mythology? I too love these stories, but many of us are looking to expand our students to other views in the world. Maybe incorporating cultural studies of other societies and their mythology can help! Japanese Mythology and Folktales Japanese … Continue reading Expanding Your Mythology Curriculum with Japanese and Norse Mythology
Every so often I like to suggest a contemporary world literature text or YA book that I think would be a fabulous addition to your World Literature curriculum. Today, I am focusing on The Girl and the Goddess! Not only would this work well in a World Lit curriculum, but it would also be a … Continue reading Contemporary World Lit- The Girl and the Goddess
Around the World With Mrs. C 