• Accommodating for students' individual differences

Includes suggestions on how to formulate alternative versions of tasks and consider "alternative intelligences" in devising tasks.

• Canon curriculum design / integration

Includes suggestions on how to teach "great ideas" and a sample unit of The Scarlet Letter. 

• Analyzing / reflecting on how the canon is taught

Includes suggestions on journaling about how you learned the classics, analyzing how the classics are taught, purposes for the canon, how your beliefs and attitudes shape your teaching and comparing canons. 

• Analyzing canonical texts

Includes suggestions on isolating narrative/thematic patterns across canonical texts, analyzing the language and style of canonical texts, studying narrative reliability, historicism and historical content, cultural considerations in studying canonical texts and comparing canons. 

• Challenging / redefining the canon

Includes suggestions on determining the new classics and comparing canons. 

• General resources about authors
• Sample syllabi, units, lesson plans, and activities for teaching general classic literature
• General resources about teaching American literature
• American literature authors and texts
  
• Sample syllabi, units, lesson plans, and activities for teaching American literature
  
• General resources on teaching British literature
• Resources sorted by British authors
• Resources sorted by British literary periods
• Sample syllabi, units, lessons, and activities for teaching British literature