Title: MATERIALS AND METHODS OF TEACHING ENGLISH IN THE MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL (HONORS)

PRQ: ENGL 404 or consent of department. CRQ: ILAS 401.

This course is aimed at undergraduate students who have not had significant previous teaching experience. Your learning will be guided largely by the demands of the profession into which you are about to take your next to final step.  You will have a very heavy reading load, and writing lesson plans will take most of the semester as you write and re-write again and again until the course is over. Much of the work you will be doing will consist of three major steps and several smaller steps inside those: 1) your learning both the theoretical and literary materials for yourself; 2) having learned (and over-learned) these materials, you must now consider the many varieties of ways to help someone else – your students – learn many of these same materials; 3) once you have decided on one of several potential approaches, your last step is to teach those materials to someone else.; 4) class will emphasize whole group discussions and classroom management.

Two lesson plans (one of which is a Unit lesson plan) are required for your final grade –including the genres of drama, fiction, and poetry, with each plan having a writing component to it as well. You will be required to do one or more video-taped lessons in front of your colleagues as well as to participate in several teacher-education simulation games of “it.”

Tentative List of Required Texts: P. Fussell, Poetic Form and Poetic Meter. McGraw-Hill; K. Koch, Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Vintage; N. Atwell, In the Middle. 2nd ed. Boynton/Cook; G. Orwell, Animal Farm. Signet; W. Shakespeare, Hamlet; & Julius Caesar; Arden(Preferred); R. Macdonald, Bedford Companion to Shakespeare 2nd ed. Bedford; J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone. Scholastic; Homer, The Odyssey. (Fitzgerald Trans.) Anchor; Pritner, How to Speak Shakespeare. Santa Monica P.; L. Sachar, Holes. Yearling Bks; Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle (cheap paperback copy of all 4 stories); Graff/Birkenstein, The Say / I Say. Norton; VCB Packet (available by Tuesday, first week of classes) Recommended Texts: Knapp, Critical Insights: Family Salem Press; Hirschfield, The Nine Gates. Perennial; Noguchi, Grammar and the Teaching of Writing. NCTE  K. Gallagher, Readicide. Stenhouse Required Subscriptions: Any two (2) N.C.T.E. Journals: English Journal (for Secondary English Teachers); Language Arts (for primary teachers); College English (for university teachers); CCC (for teachers of writing); RTE Research /Teaching English.