This chapter focuses on teaching Wharton's The House of Mirth alongside Ferber's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, So Big. Guiding students through a series of scaffolded assignments, reading the texts simultaneously in serial form to facilitate direct comparison, and building small-group Venn diagrams ...
Edna Ferber was an American novelist and short-story writer who wrote with compassion and curiosity about Midwestern American life. Ferber grew up mostly in her native Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in Appleton, Wisconsin (in between her family moved to severa