Cross Case Features: Teachers

Saunders High School: Language Arts

Luis Gonzales, World Literature, British Literature

Luis Gonzales, who teaches World Literature and British Literature at Saunders High School, says that NCTA gave him a “wealth of information” that helped him set the literature within the context of its culture. “So I am not even looking forward to using an anthology. The dependence isn’t there anymore.” He suggests that the lack of a cultural context is “why kids come out of the World Literature class without really remembering what they read. [Without the context], it doesn’t reveal to them anything unique about China, Japan, or Korea.” In his British Literature class, he shows a video of Macbeth produced in a Japanese setting.