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Understanding audience

This activity is designed to help students identify their audience and determine appropriate language use based on the audience.

Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)

By Bonnie Mcmurray and Julie Joslin.

Dialect Awareness in Literature and Life

Dovey Coe, a young adolescent novel by Frances O'Roark Dowell of Boone, North Carolina, takes place in the 1930s in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The use of mountain dialect continues to remind the reader of the importance of setting in this novel. The study of a selection from this novel will help students realize the impact of dialect in literature as well as their own speaking and writing.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)

By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.

Jim Crow and segregation

This is an integrated lesson plan that incorporates both eighth grade language arts and history. Using Internet research, literary analysis, and persuasive technique, students will practice reading and writing skills while analyzing the impact of Jim Crow Segregation on African Americans living in North Carolina and elsewhere.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

By Burnetta Barton.

Digital literature

Electronic books offer numerous benefits: They're usually searchable, they can be made instantly accessible to the visually impaired, they're often free, and, perhaps best of all, they're accessible right now. This list compiles some of the best sources for finding great works of literature on the Web.

Format: bibliography/help

Resources on the web

Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collection

A nearly complete collection of the Dayton, Ohio poet and novelist who is known for both his use of dialect and standard English. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Wright State University Libraries