Death in the Classroom: Writing about Love and Loss

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Author: Jeffrey Berman

ISBN-10: 0791476324

ISBN-13: 9780791476321

Category: Teaching - English Language

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Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.

Introduction1 Gtting Started2 Writing an Obituary3 Writing a Eulogy4 On Teaching the Book of Job-and Being Denounced as a "False Prophet"5 Writing on Religion and Death6 Cathy's Letter to Her Deceased Mother in Wuthering Heights7 A Problem with Another Student, and Evaluating the Evaluator8 Ten Things to Do before I Die9 Writing about Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide10 Writing about Jeff's Former Students in Empathic Teaching11 A Teacher's Self-EulogyAppendix A "Helping or Harming Students?" Richard Bower Bower, RichardAppendix B "Writing Has Saved My Life," Breanna's StoryAppendix C "Literature, If Anything, Will Save Me," Sara E. Murphy Murphy, Sara E.Appendix D English 226: Love and Loss in Literature and LifeWorks CitedStudent WritersIndex