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Post by Rebecca Brackmann on Mar 5, 2018 17:40:59 GMT
Let's have some fun--anyone have a favorite text to teach? A new exercise you tried that succeeded wildly? Brag on yourself a bit!
Associate Professor of English Lincoln Memorial University KPA Executive Director
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Post by jlarson on Sept 14, 2018 15:30:23 GMT
Not a single lesson, but -- When I'm teaching, it's usually argumentative writing or analysis (English 100 and 200 at my institution). I tend to try to teach students to read and analyze in an academic fashion by using readings that are more popular and mixing them with writings from their textbooks. For instance, Plato's the Allegory of the Cave is a common reading in ENG 200 textbooks, and I have students compare that with the XTC song "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" and make a comparison, or Hsun Tzu's "Man's Nature is Evil" versus Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." My general thinking is that once they're comfortable thinking about the things they like as an academic would, it's easier to do that with subjects for an assignment like current events, a specific reading, a topic for a paper, etc.
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Post by Rebecca Brackmann on Sept 14, 2018 15:33:02 GMT
Ooh, I like those pairings! A friend uses pop music songs alongside Renaissance love poetry, which is an approach I'm definitely going to borrow next time I teach those texts.
Associate Professor of English Lincoln Memorial University KPA Executive Director
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