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| Spring 2013 | ENGL 648.P1 | T | 6:00 - 8:40 | RH 302 | JohnV Knapp | |
Title: MATERIALS AND METHODS OF TEACHING ENGLISH IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLSCourse Description: Methods, devices, techniques, and curriculum materials for teaching English in the middle and high school. Attention given to teaching English to diverse students.PRQ: Consent of department. | ||||||
| Detailed Course Description: As this is the final course taken before student teaching, you will be expected to master several complex learning steps as well as to develop a realistic sense of what public school teaching entails. Hence, this is a time consuming and demanding class aimed at students who have had at least some modest previous teaching experience, but we will also be working directly with people with NO experience at all. | ||||||
| Course Requirements: 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. Two to three lesson plans are required for your final grade -- one each on drama, fiction, and poetry, with each plan having a writing component to it as well. Generally, at least one of the lesson plans must be made for a one-period class, and one for a unit of two to four weeks. You will also practice whole-group class discussions, and classroom management scenarios. | ||||||
| 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. Sacher, Holes, Yearling Bks Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Perennial Ball, Backwards and Forwards, S.I.U. Press Wood, How Fiction Works, Picador VCB Packet (available by Tuesday, first week of classes). Recommended Texts: Gallagher, Readicide, Stenhouse Hirschfield, The Nine Gates of Poetry, Perennial Noguchi, Grammar and the Teaching of Writing, NCTE Graff & Birkinstein, They Say/I Say, Norton 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. | ||||||
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