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EGL 440 Methods II
Performance Technology in Teaching Literature and Composition Instructor: LoMonico
This course will explore the teaching of literature and composition through the use of performance and technology.
The use of performance has proven to be an effective classroom tool for several reasons:
- Gives students a sense of owning the language
- Makes students feel empowered
- Uses scholarship to inform directorial choices
- Functions as close reading on one's feet
- Serves all groups of the student population
- Promotes an active, student-centered classroom
QUOTES
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions." Anonymous
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
John Cotton Dana
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Brook Adams
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS
NCTE The National Counsil of Teachers of English
Read Write Think
COURSEWORK
Fall 2006
From Pen to Print to the Classroom: Shakespeare Subject to Change
Sonnet Sonnet 116
Film Project The Terminal Unit Plan
Novel Unit How I Live Now Unit Plan
Teaching Philosophy