Teaching Cooper

Updated April 2010

This page is devoted to materials intended to assist those teaching Cooper at various educational levels. We welcome contributions of outlines, lecture-notes, and especially ideas and tips that have proved successful in the real world.

• John Stauffer (Harvard University), Lecture Notes on James Fenimore Cooper (2001)
• Theresa Strouth Gaul (Texas Christian University), Teaching Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans in an American Literature Survey. (2000)

Links to Teaching Materials on other websites

• Craig White has recently published Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper (Greenwood Press, 2006).
• Craig White, University of Houston-Clear Lake, has taught several courses involving The Last of the Mohicans and has placed extensive materials on-line:
1. Literature 4232 American Renaissance. 2008.
2. Literature 5535 American Romanticism, 2008
• James Fenimore Cooper in the Annenberg/CPB "Literary Passages" series. Brief biography and some teaching materials.
• Angela Kleinow, The Last of the Mohicans Lesson Plan Ideas: How to Teach James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales Suite101.com. Highschool Level. Link established with the consent of the author. (2010)
• Leather-Stocking as Myth and Symbol. The Pioneers as a link to Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land. [American Studies at the University of Virginia]

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