Thank you for reading Making Meaning in English and finding your way here to the online appendix. As well as the resources referred to in the book, I will periodically add other supplementary materials so please do check back regularly.
Knowledge structures in English – This is an attempt to map out the hierarchical structures of knowledge in English. It is intended as a tool to ensure a curriculum is specifying each of the the concepts students need to master in a sequences likely to lead to mastery.
Appendix 1: The Art of Rhetoric
This workbook is designed to introduce students to some of the basics of rhetoric through extracts of various famous speeches, as well as teaching key scenes from Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar.
Appendix 2: A sonnet anthology
Appendix 3: Gothic literature reader
Appendix 4: A student work book & teacher guide on war poetry and Sheriff’s Journey’s End
Appendix 6: Freedom anthology (including resources for Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God)
Appendix 7: Women in literature
Appendix 8: Selected extracts from the King James Bible