Thanks, Jim, for livening up the list. I'd be glad to contribute my "feminist" stuff...(as if anything can be separated from feminism)...not sure how it would fit into a unit. My 112 students read stuff on the theme of the fairy tale, "The REd Shoes"; besides the tale, I added: "When the Year Grows Old," a short story/chapter in Amy Bloom's book, *Come to Me*; chapter 8 from *Women Who Run with Wolves*; a poem by Heidi Ziegler (about dancin' shoes & goin for the gusto??-- my reductive summary, I'm afraid) and the 1947 ballet movie, "The Red Shoes" John has xeroxes of those. I can make more, if you like. I tried (note the word "tried") to encourage students to contextualize common threads and tangents within/among each of the texts. The movie is actually a "text w/in a text" anyway. So the unit provided a new way for students to "read" movies and many alternatives for critiquing traps, obsessions, choices in their own lives & in society. The unit succeeded for those students who were used to assimilating several texts at once (over half the class, I guess); the rest were stuck and found it hard to hang on to something to write about due to the overload (a problem w/ 112 classes overall, I guess). I'd like to see your abstract & hear about the NcTe stuff. kim