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.
This file contains the 100th Anniversary of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus souvenir program and magazine.
This file contains a copy of Status of Women Supplement (1993) featuring the story "The Inclusive University Part 1: Educational Equity" by Joyce Forbes.
This file contains a copy of OTF/FEO Interaction magazine's 50th Anniversary issue.
Assumption College Ambassador Yearbook, 1947.
This file contains a catalogue for new Indigenous fiction addressed to Penny Petrone, several blank Tutor-Marked Assignment Forms, and a Course Manual for ENGL-102: Composition and Native Indian Literature including all six units and a copy of a diagnostic grammar test. Also contains further documents for students about marks and studying strategies.
This file contains a letter from Ronald Zorzes at London Life Insurance Company to Penny Petrone praising her work.
This file contains a copy of The World of the Novel: A Student Guide to Mordecai Richler's "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" published by Prentice-Hall Canada Inc.
Includes a 1986 edition of National Geographic: Our Search for the True Columbus Landfall, a 1992 edition of National Geographic: Search for Columbus, a pamphlet called "Columbus Menu" about food discovered in the New World, two copies of a program for an event held in Toronto (1992) called "The Renaissance Ball" put on by the Colombo Caboto Committee. Also includes a sketch of Cabot Tower by D. Power, a letter from the Chair of the Colombo Caboto Committee asking Penny Petrone to be an honorary member, one page of handwritten notes about inhabitants of the Americas before 1492, an advertisement for a library exhibition on pre-Contact civilizations, several photocopies of an article from The Globe and Mail about Columbus, an article from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery advertising an exhibition about Columbus, a marked up map of the Chicago Historical Society Museum, amd a visitors' guide to the "Native American Heritage" exhibit in Washington D.C. put on by the National Geographic Society. Further includes two 1991 newspaper clippings, one from The Chronicle Journal and one from The Sunday Sun, as well as pages from a 1992 article from The Chronicle Journal, all concerning Columbus. Additionally, an article on Columbus torn out of a magazine, and a program for the "Chicago Humanities Festival II: Culture Contact".
Several letters from various officials from the Government of Canada concerning Petrone's requests for information about immigration manifests and Italian aliens during World War II. Also includes a letter from the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Environments in Italian addressed to Penny Petrone, as well as the original envelope it came in. Furthermore, a letter addressed to the Colonel responsible for the military district of Cosenza from GIna Rimanich concerning Luigi Petroni (spelling from the letter). Finally, a letter from the Consulate General of Italy in Toronto, Ontario, addressed to Penny Petrone.