3 To the Teacher
Copyright status of short stories is not always easy to determine. A good resource is Wikidata.org, which tracks the changing and sometimes conflicting copyright claims made for many of the stories referenced here. Most of the stories this workbook is built around are not clearly in the public domain. Those stories are NOT printed here.
Educational fair use guidelines permit a teacher to make and distribute one copy per student of a complete article, short story, or essay of less than 2,500 words. Pupils cannot be charged more than the actual cost of photocopying. The number of copies cannot exceed more than one copy per pupil. A notice of copyright must be affixed to each copy. Not more than one short poem, article, story, essay, or two excerpts may be copied from the same author.
Fair use guidelines also permit any individual to make one copy of a complete article, short story, or essay if less than 2,500 words provided it is for a legitimate educational use.
Accordingly, instructors may either provide copies of these short stories or direct students to make their own copies without violating copyright law.
This workbook, on the other hand, is published under a Creative Commons “Attribution – Non-Commercial – ShareAlike” license. You are absolutely free to use, edit, revise, and reprint these materials for all non-commercial purposes.
This workbook has also been designed with assessment in mind. Chapter 6 is explicitly designed to elicit assignments that can be evaluated with rubrics such as the LEAP VALUE rubrics for “Intercultural Knowledge and Competence” and “Critical Thinking.” Chapters 7, 8 and 9 can be used the same way, especially if introduced with Ch. 6. Of course, every chapter includes assignments that can be evaluated with rubrics for “Reading.”
I maintain a website with supplementary materials, including slideshows and videos, at http://spot.pcc.edu/~dramirez. Those materials are also available to you under the same Creative Commons license. If you use the video lectures for the readings (or create your own), this workbook can be used for the “flipped classroom” approach. You can also alternate, using a traditional approach for some chapters and a flipped approach for others.
I hope you find this workbook useful!
Davina Ramirez
