Faculty Resources

California State University Northridge

Glass Castle Workshops

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

The following resources are available on the above website:

The Class Castle - Reflections, Tasks, and Projects

Wayne Smith, Ph.d., CSUN

This website provides Discipline-based Ideas

The Glass Castle Teaching Ideas

Debbi Mercado, CSUN

The Glass Castle Lesson Plans

Lisa Riccomini, CSUN

The Glass Castle Summaries and Study Guide Questions

Web Resources for The Glass Castle

(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:

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

New York Times Article

Francine Prose, ''The Glass Castle': Outrageous Misfortune"