What we teach and why : contemporary literary theory and adolescents

Prisms of possibilities : introducing multiple perspectives

The lens of reader response : the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy

What's class got to do with it? : Reading literature through the lens of privilege and social class

The social construction of gender : a lens of one's own

Columbus did what? : Postcolonialism in the literature classroom

The past is always new : reading with new historicism

Deconstruction : postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student

Lenses and learning styles : accommodating student plurality with theoretical plurality

Critical encounters : reading the world

Appendix : classroom activities

Selected literary texts.

What we teach and why : contemporary literary theory and adolescents

Prisms of possibilities : introducing multiple perspectives

The lens of reader response : the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy

What's class got to do with it? : Reading literature through the lens of privilege and social class

The social construction of gender : a lens of one's own

Columbus did what? : Postcolonialism in the literature classroom

The past is always new : reading with new historicism

Deconstruction : postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student

Lenses and learning styles : accommodating student plurality with theoretical plurality

Critical encounters : reading the world

Appendix : classroom activities

Selected literary texts.