Lesson Submission Information

All lessons should be original and any work used from other authors should be cited.  They should also be free of advertisements.  The lesson should, in some way, either begin or end with the original text.  At the bottom of this page you will find Peggy O'Brien's Unfinished Taxonomy -- this is at the heart of every lesson that I create and at the heart of the text-centered classroom.  Please don't feel that you have to teach this way -- or teach any way that you are not comfortable with.  However, any lesson that you upload here should try to get as close to the center of this taxonomy as possible.

Do NOT cut and paste your lesson -  use the description box to describe your lesson and attach handouts or lesson instructions using the file attachment part of the form.  If you don't have a separate description and attached lesson and/or handout, please post it in the appropriate forum instead.  Handouts should not simply repeat or rephrase your description.

When you go to the Lesson Submission Page, enter a description of your lesson and attach your handouts.   It is not possible to be too specific.   Lessons without handouts will be moved to the appropriate forum (and awarded 2 points) or deleted.

All attached files must be 8 megabytes or smaller, though you may attach as many as you wish.  If at all possible, all handouts should be in Microsoft Word format -- this will allow teachers to modify your lesson to fit within the needs of their classroom.  You need to also choose the Category that your lesson falls into.  For instance, for a lesson on Mark Twain, you would choose American Literature and Mark Twain.  Some categories are even more divided, for instance you could choose British Literature, The Middle Ages, Chaucer.  Choose all categories that apply.  In Microsoft Windows, to choose more than one category you hold down the -CTRL- key while clicking on your choices.

Your lesson will be given careful consideration and we appreciate you sharing it, but you should be aware that not all lessons will be published.  Other teachers will review your lesson (not for how good it is -- but for how well it fits with our site) and determine whether or not it will be published on our site.  The primary criteria will be whether or not your lesson is oriented towards the actual text of the literature being studied.  Be patient - it may take a few days to publish your lesson (or to let you know that it doesn't fit in with the nature of the site - no lesson will be evaluated on how "good" it is -- but rather for how close it come to bringing students to the text).   If your lesson is published, you should consider that it has entered the public domain - though it is hoped that credit continue to be given to you as the originator of the lesson.  If you find that your lesson has had credit removed or is otherwise being abused -- be sure to let us know so that we can remove that user from our membership rolls.