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While reading: Persons Unknown
The materials on this page are designed to accompany the second part of the novel, Persons Unknown. The resources include an overview of the part with pages where Capote cuts between scenes identified,...
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Persons Unknown Free
This week we have added another page intended to support a study of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel, in Cold Blood. These materials are designed to accompany the second part of the novel, Persons Unknown. ...
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The Last to See Them Alive Free
This week we have added another page intended to support a study of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel, in Cold Blood. These materials are designed to accompany the first part of the novel, The Last to...
Teaching and Learning resources
Connecting texts
The first few lessons: connecting texts This is a fairly straightforward lesson or two. The idea is to get students to find or to make different kinds of connections between seemingly unconnected texts. ...
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In Cold Blood unit of study Free
This week we are happy to start sharing some lessons and resources for a unit of study on Truman Capote's 1966 non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood. We will add to these resources over the coming weeks and...
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Brave New World: AI in education Free
It is about time we addressed the issue of artificial intelligence on the site, although we do so with some reluctance because: a) we are far from being experts on the matter, and b) we are adding to...
The Literature course
A lesson introducing prose fiction
While the novel and the short story share literary conventions, it is also important to note that the two forms are different and writers of each will often use the conventions quite differently. ...
The Literature course
A lesson on paratext
There is a good lesson to be had from asking students to consider what we encounter as readers before we even get to the first page of the narrative in a prose text - what Gerard Genette called the paratext, the elements...
The Literature course
Analogy: The White Tiger
In this extract from Aravind Adiga's 2008 novel, The White Tiger, the narrator, Balram Halwai, introduces an analogy that becomes a central motif in the book's exploration of the caste/class system in...
The Literature course
Framing: Golden Hill
Students of Art and Film know about the importance of the frame in determining and shaping what the audience see and how they respond. This can also be a useful way for Literature students to think about...