Teaching and

Assessment of
Literature and
Studies
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▪ Nationality: French
▪ Known for: The Count of Monte
Cristo, The Three Musketeers
▪ Dumas is one of the most 9

prominent French writers with his

historical novels that tell of
adventurous tales. Since the early
20th century, his works have
been made into about 200 movies
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▪ Nationality: American
▪ Known for: The Raven, The Pit
and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale
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▪ Poe was one of the premier writers

during the Romantic Movement.
He is credited with being the father
of detective fiction as well as one
of the early science fiction writers.
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▪ Nationality: French-Algerian
▪ Known for: Journey to the Center of
the Earth, Around the World in 80
Days 9
▪ Verne was one of the leaders in the
science fiction genre of literature.
In fact, he is often referred to as
“The Father of Science Fiction,”
along with H.G. Wells.
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▪ Nationality: American
▪ Known for: The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn,
Pudd’nhead Wilson 9
▪ Often referred to as the “Father
of American Literature,” Twain
has contributed a great deal to
the culture.
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▪ Nationality: English
▪ Known for: The Lord of the
Rings, The Hobbit
▪ Credited with bringing9 the
fantasy genre back into the
mainstream, Tolkien is often
referred to as the “father of
modern fantasy literature.”
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▪ Nationality: American
▪ Known for: The Chronicles of
Narnia, The Screwtape Letters
▪ Lewis was a novelist, 9essayist,
and Christian apologetic who
used his writings to explore
ideas about religion and other
themes.
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▪ Nationality: British
▪ Known for: Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory
▪ Dahl has been referred 9 to as a

great children’s storyteller,

though his books have a dark
sense of humor and twist
endings.
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▪ Nationality: American
▪ Known for: Percy Jackson and the
Olympians,
▪ In addition to his works centered
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on
mythology, such as Percy Jackson
and the Olympians, Riordan has
worked on other projects. He helped
write the children’s novel series
entitled The 39 Clues with other
authors.
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▪ Nationality: American
▪ Known for: The Da Vinci Code,
Angels and Demons
▪ Brown has written two best-selling
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novels that been turned into major
motion picture. The themes for his
novels typically include conspiracy
combined with Christian motifs,
making them rather controversial.
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▪ Nationality: British
▪ Known for: Harry Potter series
▪ Before writing and publishing
the Harry Potter series,9 she
was receiving benefits from the
state to help her live. But her
success turned her into a
multi-millionaire within just a
couple years.
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▪ Nationality: American
▪ Known for: The Notebook, A
Walk to Remember
▪ With 18 published novels
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name, Sparks is one of the
more prominent authors of
today. Several of his novels
have been turned into major
motion pictures
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▪ Nationality: American
▪ Known for: The Twilight Series
▪ In 2008 and 2009, Meyer was the
bestselling wrier in the US
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more than 45 million copies selling
in those two years combined. She
was ranked as one of the top 50 of
the 100 most influential people of
2008 by Time magazine
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Compare:
▪ Many students attended the student
council meeting.
▪ Ninety-five college students attended
Tuesday’s student council meeting.
Compare:
▪ Shall we partake of our repast?
▪ Shall we eat?

▪ Mother’s culinary dishes are exquisite.

▪ Mother cooks well.
• views a literary text as a product
• treated as a source of information about
target culture.
• most traditional approach
• examine the social, political, historical
background to a text,
• quite teacher–centered
• reading tends to be based on obtaining
information
• seeks a closer integration between language
and literature.
• students can improve their language
proficiency by using literature as a resource in
language learning.
• for linguistic practice
• provide a series of language activities
• outlined by Carter and Long (1991)
• attempts to bridge the cultural and language
model
• function relates to theories of reading
emphasized on the interaction of the reader
with the text.
• need students' personal engagement with
the reading of literary texts.
- include recall of details, main
ideas, sequence, comparisons,
cause and effect relationships and
character traits.
- entails classifying, outlining,
summarizing, and synthesizing
ideas.
- require students to use
information explicitly stated in the
text along with personal
experience and knowledge in
order to conjecture and to form
hypothesis.
- require the students to compare
information and ideas in a text with
material presented with the student’s own
knowledge and experience in order to
form judgments of reality and fantasy; fact
or opinion; adequacy and validity;
appropriateness; worth, desirability and
acceptability.
- require students to articulate
emotional and aesthetic responses
to the text based on personal and
professional standards of literary
forms, styles, genres, theories,
critical approaches.