This file contains a programme for the Uganda Elocution Festival in 1964, two examination results for students, and a letter with an examination schedule.
This file contains itineraries from the Ontario Council of Teachers of English conferences (1975 and 1983, both with Petrone speaking on "Canadian Indian Literature") and the Canadian Council of Teachers of English (1975). There are also letters to Petrone thanking her for her participation at OCTE 1975 as well as inviting her to be a Council Member in 1973.
This file contains three letters in envelopes (two dated 1904), as well as many other examples of letters used to teach how to properly write a letter, including Letters to the Editor in newspaper or correspondence letters. There are also letters that Petrone's students wrote that are meant to be from an earlier time.
This file contains notes on student teaching through Lakehead University. There are notes on common issues student teachers have, "The Art of Questioning" for one of Petrone's classes, articles on teaching, a memorandum for Associate Teachers on what they should expect from student teachers and what is expected of them, and tips for supply teachers. There is also a Student Teaching Handbook (1988-1989) from Lakehead University.
This file contains articles written by Sir Alec Clegg: "Expansion of Knowledge and Reform of Teaching" (Ontario Education 1967), "Or Not to Read", and "Education: Mind Stocking or Fire Kindling?".
This file contains the newspaper special "The Good Old Days: A 'Golden Age' of Academic Freedom?" as well as the booklet "Of Academic Freedom", a lecture by Lord Robbins in 1966.
This file contains the essay "History of Education in Manitoba After Confederation" by one of Petrone's students in her Education 5571 class in 1978.
This file contains the report "Teaching by Television", which discusses using televisions in the classroom and their educational benefit.
This file contains the report of the Secondary Education Review Project by the Ministry of Education.
This file contains a summary of Margaret Ryan's "Teaching the Novel in Paperback" that one of Petrone's students wrote for her class in 1975, as well as a creative writing assignment by the same student.
This file contains a clipping from FORUM from Jan. 1984 of the featured story "Restructuring the university system in Ontario"
This file contains "Final Report of the Teacher Education Review Steering Committee" from Sept. 1988 by the Ministry of Education.
This file contains an article from Toronto Daily Star (Sept. 7 1965) entitled: "The 'unfair' Grade 13 English exam" which discusses how several students are being marked poorly on their grade 13 English exam.
This file contains the essay "Problems of a Developing School System: Port Arthur, Ontario Schools from 1873-1895" by one of Petrone's History of Education 5571 class students in 1978.
This file contains several journal articles about education, including its place in society and how to teach different subjects, which were reprinted from the 1960s by W. J. Gage Publishing Limited.
This file contains a copy of Quest magazine (Sept. 1982) with the cover story "Why Our Kids Can't Read," which discusses some of the reasons students may not be learning to read at school.
This file contains the essay "The Federal Government and Education in the Northwest Territories and Yukon" by one of Petrone's History of Education 5571 class students.
This file contains two booklets/essays written by a student of Petrone's History of Education 5571 class. They are: "Education in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick - Pre-Confederation" and "Education in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick - Post-Confederation".
This file contains multiple articles and newspaper clippings on the topic of universities: their importance to youth, their goals as a campus, the difference between university professors and teachers and what makes a good university professor.
This file contains journals/papers written by Petrone's Education 1399 students when they visited various schools in Thunder Bay and wrote their observations/experiences at each.
This file contains a reading list for Ph.D. candidates in English in 1967 for different divisions of English literature: Old and Middle English, The Renaissance, The Restoration and Eighteenth Century, The Nineteenth Century, Modern British and Canadian, and American.
This file contains papers written by Penny Petrone when she was a student: "An Examination of Donne's 'Elegy XIX' to discover to what extent it falls into the Dramatic Monologue genre" (1966), "The Character of Moll Flanders" (1965), "Jonson and the heroic couplet (Jonson, Waller, Wither, Denham, Dryden)" (1970), "A discussion of the influence of Renaissance humanism on the dramatic art of Ben Jonson" (1969), and "Sound and Sense in Ulysses" (1966).
This file contains notes from Petrone's "Medieval Drama" course as a student, including typed lecture notes and many handwritten notes by Petrone.
This file contains correspondence between Penny Petrone and the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, thanking Petrone for donations, receipts for said donations, and a letter confirming that Petrone would appear on the Permanent Donor wall at the Art Gallery. There is also a booklet entitled "Thunder Bay Art Gallery: Permanent Collection 1996" which lists all of the items in its permanent collection.
This file contains a bulletin from Trans-Canada Air Lines (Captain's Bulletin) from a flight to Toronto signed by the flight attendants and captain, which tells of the altitude and air speed of the plane that morning.