Don Braden has been an English teacher in Barstow, California, high schools since 1964 when he was hired to teach Latin and English. The Latin stint lasted until 1975 and then cropped up for a couple of years in the early 1990's.
Requested by David Brin in October 1997 to put his The Postman curriculum on the net (Before the movie hits the screen ... ?), Braden met that deadline; and, while the movie was popular in the United States, Warner Bros maintained a link to the curriculum. During this time the Awesome Library accorded its highest award to the site. The Postman curriculum is currently listed on the California Teachers Association Resource Page of Useful Sites.
A second Braden curriculum site was posted on the net June 1998. Bradbury's Martian Chronicles is the second of three novels Braden uses in his "literature-based" Composition class to exemplify writing forms; A Canticle for Leibowitz is the third.
Each novel is divided into eight readings; the first three are dedicated to character sketch; the second three, descriptive narrative; the final two, explaining an idea.
If you would like to drop a comment or a question Braden's way, he promises to respond.
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