Calendar

Week 1 / January 20 / Introduction

Week 2 / January 27 / The Question of Difficulty

Week 3 / February 3 / Critical reading

Week 4 / February 10 / Reconsidering literacy

Week 5 / February 17 / Workshopping literature

  • Sheridan Blau, The Literature Workshop, chapters 1-7
  • James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” (Blackboard)

Week 6 / February 24 / Politics of Interpretation

  • Sheridan Blau, The Literature Workshop, chapters 8-14
  • William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force” (Blackboard)

Week 7 / March 3 / Reading and writing

  • Peter Elbow, “The War between Reading and Writing: And How to End It,” Rhetoric Review 12.1 (1993): 5-24, available on JSTOR
  • Cheryl Glenn, “The Reading-Writing Connection: What’s Process Got to Do with It?,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 99-118. (Blackboard)
  • Brenda M. Greene, “Reinventing the Literary Text: Student Writers at Work,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 177-190. (Blackboard)
  • Peter Elbow, “Breathing Life into the Text,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 193-205. (Blackboard)
  • Carl R. Lovitt, “Using Journals to Redefine Public and Private Domains in the Literature Classroom,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 230-244. (Blackboard)
  • Kathleen Blake Yancey, “Portfolios, Literature, and Learning: Story as a Way of Constructing the World,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 288-299. (Blackboard)
  • William E. Coles, “Less as More: The Ten-Minute Writing Assignment as Enabling Constraint,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 301-310. (Blackboard)
  • Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” (Blackboard)

Week 8 / March 10 / Spring Break

Week 9 / March 17 / Writing and reading

  • Scholes et al, Text Book, chapter 1 and 2

Week 10 / March 24 / Reading and Writing

  • Text Book, chapter 3 and 4
  • Due: Literary Interpretation and Reflection

Week 11 / March 31 / Case Study

  • Kyle Baker, Nat Turner
  • Gray, Thomas R. The Confessions of Nat Turner. DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska – Lincoln. <http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/15/>
  • Gray, Thomas R. The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, VA. Baltimore, 1831. Documenting the American South. <http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/menu.html>.
  • Scott McCloud, excerpts from Understanding Comics (Blackboard)

Week 12 / April 7 / Case Study

  • Kyle Baker, Nat Turner

Week 13 / April 14 / Teaching Presentations

Week 14 / April 21 / Teaching Presentations

Week 15 / April 28 / Teaching Presentations

Week 16 / May 5 / Teaching Presentations

Week 1 / January 20 / Introduction

What we talk about when we talk about teaching and reading

Lee Shulman, “Taking Learning Seriously,” available online at <http:/www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/taking-learning-seriously>

Week 2 / January 27 / The Question of Difficulty

John Bransford, Ann Brown, and Rodney Cocking, eds. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, chapter 2, pp. 17-38, available online at <http:/tinyurl.com/yrhpon>

Salvatori and Donahue, The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty

Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (Blackboard)

week 3 / February 3 / Critical reading

Robert Scholes, Textual Power, chapter 2 (Blackboard)

Research Findings from the Visible Knowledge Project on Teaching and Learning:
Active and Critical Reading Introduction <http:/tinyurl.com/2xdn9k>
Active and Critical Reading Poster <http:/tinyurl.com/2huqbd>
Balancing Structure and Open-endedness <http:/tinyurl.com/285xg4>
An Inquiry into Student Reading Practices <http:/tinyurl.com/yq7ktg>

Sherry Linkon, “The Reader’s Apprentice: Making Critical Cultural Reading Visible.” Pedagogy 5.2 (2005): 247-273. <http:/muse.jhu.edu/journals/pedagogy/v005/5.2linkon.html>.

In Class: Think Aloud Poetry Interpretation

Week 4 / February 10 / Reconsidering literacy

James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Sam Barlow, Aisle; Jeremy Freese, Violet, and other games

Due: Think Aloud Analysis


Week 5 / February 17 / Workshopping literature

Sheridan Blau, The Literature Workshop, chapters 1-7

James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” (Blackboard)

Week 6 / February 24 / Politics of Interpretation

Sheridan Blau, The Literature Workshop, chapters 8-14

William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force” (Blackboard)

Week 7 / March 3 / Reading and writing

Peter Elbow, “The War between Reading and Writing: And How to End It,” Rhetoric Review 12.1 (1993): 5-24, available online through JSTOR at <http:/tinyurl.com/36zfkn> (on-campus) and <http:/tinyurl.com/36eau4> (off-campus)

Cheryl Glenn, “The Reading-Writing Connection: What’s Process Got to Do with It?,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 99-118. (Blackboard)

Brenda M. Greene, “Reinventing the Literary Text: Student Writers at Work,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 177-190. (Blackboard)

Peter Elbow, “Breathing Life into the Text,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 193-205. (Blackboard)

Carl R. Lovitt, “Using Journals to Redefine Public and Private Domains in the Literature Classroom,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 230-244. (Blackboard)

Kathleen Blake Yancey, “Portfolios, Literature, and Learning: Story as a Way of Constructing the World,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 288-299. (Blackboard)

William E. Coles, “Less as More: The Ten-Minute Writing Assignment as Enabling Constraint,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 301-310. (Blackboard)

Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” (Blackboard)

Week 8 / March 10 / spring break

Week 9 / March 17 / Writing And reading

Scholes et al, Text Book, chapter 1 and 2

Week 10 / March 24 / Reading and Writing

Text Book, chapter 3 and 4

Due: Literary Interpretation and Reflection

week 11 / March 31 / Case Study

Kyle Baker, Nat Turner

Scott McCloud, excerpts from Understanding Comics (e-reserve)

Week 12 / April 7 / Case Study

Kyle Baker, Nat Turner

Week 13 / April 14 / Teaching Presentations

week 14 / april 21 / Teaching Presentations

week 15 / april 28 / Teaching Presentations