Teaching Literature in Second Life

American Literature

• Authors– Poe– Chopin– Masters– Hawthorne– Naylor– Tan– Crane– Fuller– Thoreau/Emerson

British Literature

• Authors– Beowulf (unknown)– Shakespeare– Spencer – Queen Elizabeth I– Tennyson– Keats– Coleridge– PB Shelley– Wollstonecraft

British Literature

• Authors– Chaucer– M. Lewis– Byron – Stoker– Walpole– M. Shelley

Literary Theory

• Archetypal Cavern– Monomyth Theory– Jungian Theory– Feminist Theory

• Goddess Hunt

Student Immersion Projects

• Spoon River Anthology

• Mama Day • Dante’s

Inferno/Linden Hills• American Project• Blithedale Romance• Progressive Era

Process

• Learning Objectives

• Texts• Projects• Training• Facilitation• Assessment

• Thank You!

• britterguth@hotchkiss.org