| War
Beyond Romance: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Considerations
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute has an online lesson plan for
teaching The Red Badge of Courage
Contents of Curriculum Unit:
• Narrative
• Sample Lesson Plan For Developing an Understanding of Group
Discussion and Group Process.
• Sample Lesson plan for Developing an Understanding of the Causes
and Nature of War.
• Lesson Plan for “the Red Badge of Courage” –vocabulary,
discussion questions, writing activity, and group discussion
• Notes
• Teacher Bibliography
• Teacher and Student Bibliography
• Resources
Red Badge of
Courage Vocabulary
154 “SAT-College Prep” vocabulary words organized by chapters
War
Literature
Discovery School lesson plan that examines Crane’s war-related
themes. Features lesson plans, discussion questions, evaluation, questions,
reading and links, and vocabulary.
Stephen
Crane Society
Extensive site that features teaching materials, bibliographical and
research sites, Crane works online and reviews, FAQs, student queries
& replies, Steven Crane Studies journal,
Teaching
Crane
By Donald Vanouse, from the Heath Anthology instructor's guide. Discusses
classroom issues and strategies, themes, style, and other issues and
offers five discussion questions.
From Perspectives in American Literature - A
Research and Reference Guide, this site contains an extensive bibliography
for further reading on Crane, four discussion questions, and related
links
The
Red Badge of Courage
Features a concise biography, a brief critical overview of Crane’s
work, a bibliography of works and criticism, and related links
Color
in Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
An essay analyzing Crane's use of color.
Red Badge of
Courage Chapter Questions
The
Red Badge of Courage
Editor's preface to the exhibit The Red Badge of Courage from the American
Studies at the University of Virginia, website Contains introductory
essay -- Imaging the Civil War: Visual Representation and The Red Badge
of Courage – with contemporary reviews of the book as well as
a hypertext version of The Red Badge of Courage.
Linda Davis
Interview
C-SPAN Booknotes site provides a transcript of an interview with Linda
Davis, author of Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane.
George
Wyndham on Crane's remarkable book, New Review (January 1896, xiv,
30-40)
Wyndham (1863-1913 ) was a veteran of the Coldstream Guards, Member
of Parliamen and Chief Secretary for Ireland, critic for the National
Observer and the New Review, and an editor of Shakespeare's Poems (1898),
Ronsard, and North's Plutarch. This article is one of the best written
on Crane's work and was praised by other critics, including Joseph Conrad
and Harold Frederic.
IN SEARCH
OF THE “REAL” STEPHEN CRANE (or, Tales of a Literary
Sleuth)
Excerpts from the Opening Plenary Session - National CEA Conference,
Charleston, SC,
April 6, 2000. By Paul Sorrentino of Virginia Tech
Talks about his collaboration with another Crane scholar, Stanley Wertheim
of William Paterson University, and how together they have been exploring
Crane’s life and work for the past two decades.
The Electronic Classics Series at Penn State has The
Red Badge of Courage available in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format for
easy printing and reading.
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