A High School Teaching Plan for “Winesburg, Ohio”

Recently I completed some coursework to renew my license to teach English language arts to grades seven through twelve in the state of Ohio. One of the courses I completed was on teaching American fiction, which involved assignments centered on two books. The books I chose were Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio and Willa Cather’s My Antonia.…

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“Winesburg, Ohio” at 100

In the fall of 1915, Sherwood Anderson was working as a copywriter in Chicago and living in a rented room that overlooked the Loop. Anderson enjoyed the view from his window and had moved his bed closer to it so he could see the vista of Chicago below him—the great Midwestern city where he had…

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