Faculty/Staff Teaching Resources

The Glass Castle, Common Reading Selection 2012

California State University Northridge has a website with lesson plans/assignments/syllabi for the book, which was their Common Reading selection in 2011:

http://www.csun.edu/afye/Glass-Castle-Workshops.html

Videos and Interviews with Jeanette Walls and her mother:

(compiled by Ronit Sarig, CSUN)

1. YouTube interview with Jeannette Walls and her mother. Walls tells how she saw her homeless mother on the street while she was in a limousine on the way to a party. Rose Mary is showing her pictures, describing each one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0XVno-0gM

2. Jeannette Walls, official publisher’s site. Includes 2.56 minute video clip of Walls talking about her audio books and discussing the significance of facing the past.

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Jeannette-Walls/19723841

3. A very extensive interview with Walls; transcription of 2 ½ hour interview. Very interesting, details and facts not discussed in other interviews.

http://gothamist.com/2005/05/27/jeannette_walls_author_the_glass_castle_gossip_columnist_msnbccom.php

4. Another interview with Jeannette Walls:

http://conversationsfamouswriters.blogspot.com/2005/10/jeannette-walls-glass-castle.html

5. Jeannette Walls quotes: quotes from The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses, as well as from interviews with her.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3275.Jeannette_Walls

Additional resources:

Interview with Craig Ferguson, 9:35 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZboHOZlZAE

National Book Award Festival, 33:27 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_38FOqw4sE&feature=related