Our hope is to be able to hone a production process that is fun for us to work and that creates experiences that brim with possibilities for teachers and their students.

So many authors

We are starting with authors because Amanda, the creator of this curriculum, spent her first career teaching high school English. And from 1995 - 2015, with every new set of students she helped decode the required literature, those students taught her something new.

Sadly, modern students aren’t reading literature as much — partially because it’s not being tested and partially because it cannot compete with the visual technology.

Educational CVR want to harness that technology to create for these digital natives, experiences that engage them in the author’s zeitgeist. Our hope is that those same students will be interested in the authors and, by extension, in their words - interested enough to spend the time and the effort to learn how to read their works.

experiences we want to create

To start, there are the writers. Each one will be approached with as much accuracy and authenticity as the medium and our purpose (allowing students to discover the author) as possible.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Edgar A. Poe

• Ernest Hemingway

• Kate Chopin

• Dorothy Parker

• Zora Neale Hurston

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Edith Wharton

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Mark Twain

• Alice Walker

• Langston Hughes

• T. S. Eliot

• Walt Whitman

There are more, of course, like Shakespeare and Dickens, Karen Blixen and Nadine Gordimer. But, what is reachable first.