Creating Lives: An Introduction to Biography

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 10.03.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Context
  3. Rationale
  4. Objective
  5. Strategies and Activities
  6. The Biography Project Strategies in Brief
  7. Assessment
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. Appendices
  10. Endnotes

Who is Sylvia Plath?–An Inquiry-Based Biography Primer

Molly A. Myers

Published September 2010

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Endnotes

  1. Jo Gill. The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 1.
  2. Cris Tovani. I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers. (Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2000), pp. 14-16.
  3. Hermione Lee. Biography: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 124.
  4. Aurelia Plath, ed. Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963. (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), p. 13.
  5. Jo Gill, The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 1.
  6. Susan R. Van Dyne. "The Problem of Biography." The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 17.
  7. Nigel Hamilton. How to do Biography. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), p. 21.
  8. This is film is rated "R" and therefore I encourage teachers to use appropriate clips or to send a letter home to parents as a precaution.
  9. Jamie Wilson. "Frieda Hughes attacks BBC for film on Plath." The Guardian. Feb. 3, 2003. Retrieved on July 15, 2010 from www.guardian.co.uk.
  10. Adlai Stevenson. "A Purpose for Modern Woman," Commencement Address, Smith College, 1955 in Women's Home Companion (September 1955). Retrieved on Jul 15, 2010 from http://www.h-net.org/~hst203/documents/stevenson.html.
  11. Robert DiLorenzo. "Teaching Advanced Placement United States History in the Urban, Minority High School: Successful Strategies." The History Teacher, Vol. 2, No. 2, (Feb., 1999), pp. 207-221.
  12. Biographies of Sylvia Plath are numerous. For an overview of all the biographies, I recommend reading Susan R. Van Dyne's "The Problem of Biography" found in The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 3-20. Also, Silent Woman by Janet Malcom provides a stinging review of the effort to write Plath's life.
  13. Gill. P. 113-115.
  14. Janet Malcom. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1994), p. 28.
  15. Lee, p. 132.

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