1. The ability to recognize and trace the tradition of women's writing in the English language from the Middle Ages to today.

2. The ability to learn how and why women wrote journals, memoirs, and letters and explore the reasons that women's literature was often devalued in years past.

3. The ability to learn what prompted feminist polemicists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Margaret Fuller to speak out against the injustices of their day.

4. The ability to recognize themes which run through women's literature.

5. The ability to become more thoughtful and discerning readers as they learn to read closely and interpretively, applying feminist critical approaches.

6. Learn to conduct and present independent research.

7. Learn or review basic literacy terminology so they can write intelligently about the literature they are reading.

8. Learn to make connections between the themes of literature and the gender issues which affect their lives.

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Women's Literature

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