tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post7270394770127699372..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Teaching a New Text, Part the FirstBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-15959856738139168962009-11-22T20:40:53.231-08:002009-11-22T20:40:53.231-08:00I'm teaching an entire course soon on an autho...I'm teaching an entire course soon on an author whose work has very little research and none of which I've taught before. Now that I see it in print, it looks like a crazy idea . . . but it actually should be a fun class if I can deal with the "teaching a new text" issues.<br />Thanks for the fabulous ideas, annieem!The Steel Magnoliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328240056707198233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-36315053060754315232009-11-21T21:44:49.964-08:002009-11-21T21:44:49.964-08:00I don't have any advice, but I just want to sa...I don't have any advice, but I just want to say I think what you're doing is really valuable. Teaching more early modern texts by women is the only way to break the grip of the dead white men on the canon. I like annieem's idea for the Cliff Notes booklet - that sounds like a fun assignment to do.Bavardesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10737120234578385755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-79637418133976397182009-11-21T11:01:27.631-08:002009-11-21T11:01:27.631-08:00Last year I taught a new course with a handful of ...Last year I taught a new course with a handful of texts that I had never taught before: I did lots of prep (looking to see how others had taught them was part of it, but they are relatively contemporary texts, so not as much was available), but like Philosophy, I let the students do a the initial responses each class, thus guiding the discussion. And if that didn't work, I started with a few leading questions or raised a somewhat controversial critical opinion of the book and encouraged debate. <br /><br />One idea that also worked for me (and will help for this year's course) is that students had to select one of the texts and create a sort of literary Cliff Notes booklet about it (again, these are contemporary novels, so they haven't been Cliff Noted yet). So now I have a bunch of those that added to my store of information about the books.<br /><br />I find it challenging, but fun, to teach new works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-75001041399054313892009-11-21T08:28:10.057-08:002009-11-21T08:28:10.057-08:00I recently found myself teaching a couple of new p...I recently found myself teaching a couple of new philosophical pieces -- which can be similar, I suspect...<br /><br />I found it kind of interesting to back off a bit and let the students do more of the talking, then see where they take the discussion. I tend to use PowerPoint, so I developed pairs of questions -- printed the questions and then answered the questions from my point of view in the powerpoint. I distributed the printed questions to students and gave them 10 minutes in small groups to answer them -- and it worked! We had some interesting discussions and the students saw things I didn't -- and better, made connections I hadn't. <br /><br />This works better later in the semester, since the class knows the material better and knows one another better, so forming groups isn't so hard.<br /><br />I've also had students debate a question concerning a new text -- which is generally fun and sometimes gets competitive.Inside the Philosophy Factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.com