Teaching American Literature in a Time Constrained Condition

Education is changing in the fast pace of our life. As educators and curriculum developers, we have to change with the times. The idea of ​​a long, long class is over. Our direction of education is to teach only two works of American writers per class. As an educator, we have to choose the most relevant and oldest course to achieve this goal. The work I chose is "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Owen and "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.

However, I do not teach Native American literature courses. I teach the multicultural children's literature course and teach young adult literary courses. Alexei's absolute truth diary appeared in these two syllabi. It will not appear in any syllabus in the future. There are many reasons, but here are four. William Faulkner died. Sherman Aleksey is still alive. If I have designated Alexie's book (and therefore ask my students to buy his book) I will continue to pay his salary. I would rather pay money to people in order to create good art without hurting others' wages. There are so many people, so next time I will assign it to The Marrow Thieves of Cherie Dimaline.

On the day when the consumer network first appeared, I taught African-American literature classes with small children in the Crown Heights region of Brookline. On the day of Richard Wright 's discussion in Native Son' s lesson, we had a guest student from Los Angeles. It was the only time in my educational history in New York that I was not the only Caucasian in my class. One third of the students said that because the justice system is biased towards blacks, we will not make Bigger a police officer. Another one third said they would rely on him for ethical mistakes, but it does not matter. The rest of the students explained that they would also hand over Bigger Thomas to the police, but a more specific reason was that they did not want to become his next victim. (I know that all the students in the class are victims of shooting or that someone was murdered.