Sheridan Blau, The Literature Workshop, chapters 6-10
Selected Poems
Week 7: Reconsidering the Literary (March 6)
James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Selected Games
Week 8: Spring Break (March 13)
Week 9: Writing and Reading (March 20)
Peter Elbow, “The War between Reading and Writing: And How to End It,” Rhetoric Review 12.1 (1993): 5-24 (e-journal)
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)
William E. Coles, “Less as More: The Ten-Minute Writing Assignment as Enabling Constraint,” from When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, pp. 301-310. (Blackboard)
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>.
A Guide to a Speech and Photographs Relating to Nat Turner’s Insurrection. Special Collections. University of Virginia, 2007. (online)
Week 12: Teaching for Understanding (April 10)
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, selections from Understanding by Design (Blackboard)