You can choose your TEPP option. All TEPPs must be presented in class between Weeks Two and Eight of the course.
Teaching: There will be large knowledge and skill gaps between students, and between students and instructor. Student-taught lessons give the opportunity for students to teach from their own area of expertise, whether technical, literary, linguistic, cultural, or otherwise. Everyone brings to the class some strengths; mine are in poetry, poetics, and teaching—it is your job to identify your own strengths, and to share them. Possible lessons may examine a puzzling aspect of a text under discussion, offer a closer look at a poem, poet, concept or question of relevance, or teach a relevant skill. Lessons can be supported by Powerpoint (7-9 minutes). Lessons will be assessed according to relevance, effectiveness, and level of class engagement.
Experiment: Experiments may take any form but must be applied. The experiment may take place before, or during class. In either case, a Report must follow on the experiment. If before class, you should present the Report in class. If during class, you should present your Report next class. . Experiments will be assessed on thoughtfulness, clarity, logic of methodology, relevance to the course, in-class presentation, and thoroughness and clarity of report.
Conference-style Presentation: Conference-style presentations can be based in research, speculation, or polemics. Presentations should be approximately three printed pages in length, and should take 7-9 minutes to read aloud in class. Presenters should forward their presentation to me at least 24 hours before class so that I can make copies for all students to have in hand.
Performance: Performances may be live or recorded. In general (though not necessarily exclusively), performances are creative. For example, you may present one or more poems (7-9 minutes maximum). Performances will be assessed accorded to the quality, interest, and relevance of the work (50%), and the intelligence, (competence), and effectiveness of the performance (50%).