Introduction

High School Literary Criticism Papers

Valdosta State University Instructor Diane Howard, VSU Archivist Deborah Davis, and Janice Daugharty collaborated with high school English teachers at Valdosta High School, Lowndes High School, Echols County High School, Clinch County, and Lanier County High School to instruct high school students for three days about engaging in the writing process, conducting literary and historical research on primary sources, regional identity themes, Southern authors, the writer's role as an observer, and writing literary criticism.

Students were prepared for the project activities by reading a Janice Daugharty's short story "Shorn Glory" and by reviewing a CD handout created by the project developers containing primary and secondary sources and literary criticism related to Daugharty's short story.

As part of this project activity, approximately 100 high school juniors and seniors submitted literary criticism papers for evaluation and nine were chosen for this journal. The nine students whose essays were chosen presented their papers at the Janice Daugharty Festival, a regional writing conference, held on April 29, 2004. The conference was an additional event emerging from the project.

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Valdosta State University Student Papers

During spring semester 2004 Valdosta State University students from eight English 1102 classes participated in the Georgia Humanities Council grant project "Regional Identity: A Reading, Writing, and Regional Issues Project Using the Works of Janice Daugharty."

Throughout the semester Valdosta State University instructors Diane Howard, Bobbi Warren, Roy Pace and Marie Hill, VSU Archivist Deborah Davis, and Janice Daugharty worked with students, engaging them in the writing process, conducting literary and historical research on primary sources, regional identity themes, Southern authors, the writer's role as an observer, and writing using regional identity themes.

As part of this project activity, students submitted literary criticism papers for evaluation and several were chosen for this journal. The students whose essays were chosen presented their papers at the Janice Daugharty Festival, a regional writing conference, held on April 29, 2004. The conference was an additional event emerging from the project.

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Sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council

Last Updated June 3, 2004 by Amy Warren