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Kate Chopin delivers a strong feminist message in her short story, "A Pair of Silk Stockings."

Salinger presents an array of ideas in Catcher in the Rye through the themes of isolation, superficiality, innocence lost, and alienation of the artist.

Focusing on satire and coming of age will lead students in a productive conversation about Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and give them the basis for comparing and contrasting Twain's ideas to a biblical worldview.

The best approach to helping students identify naturalism and feminism in John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" is to organize the discussion by theme.  

Practicing a few key skills with students will help them incorporate more poignant quotes into their literary essays.

These biblical worldview basics will help teachers and students better discern the ideas and philosophies they will encounter in literature and culture.

Existentialism, Relativism, Nihilism, and New Spirituality are ideologies we need to touch on in order to help students recognize them.

Essay conclusions are the whole reason why we write the essay, so learning how to organize and craft them is essential for students.

Introductions can be a nightmare. Here are tips for helping your students who are staring at a blank page.

Understanding the basics of feminism and Marxism will give students greater insights into literature and modern culture.

Naturalists view nature and the cosmos as awe-inspiring, yet capricious and cavalier—only the strong survive life's uphill battles.

Gearing up to study literary worldviews and philosophy requires an introduction and some basic definitions for our students.

Editing for needless "to be" verbs is one game-plan strategy for elevating student writing.

Worldview can be likened to a camera lens filter. It is a "filter" through which we interpret life, humanity, the world.

Students invariably struggle to remember that writing about literature requires present tense verbs.