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Art and Design: Teaching Siddhartha in a Secondary Urban High School

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• • David Lee Carlson
  • Hunter College-CUNY.

Abstract

This paper describes, in detail, the process I followed to plan a unit on Hermann Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha. The primary argument of this paper is that inner-city, undereducated students can understand and relate to culturally disparate literary works when teachers plan backwards, develop art projects, and design thematically-based writing assignments. This article has been divided into three sections: a summary of the novel, a brief review of professional theories and research on teaching literature to secondary students, and an in-depth look at the student assignments.

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How to Cite: Carlson, D. L. (2007) “Art and Design: Teaching Siddhartha in a Secondary Urban High School”, Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research. 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2470-6353.1120