A while back, I blogged about teaching genre and convention in an introductory literature course geared towards the non-major. As I mentioned, I like using the post-apocalyptic narrative to teach genre and convention because students are familiar with this kind…
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3 Approaches to Teaching McCarthy’s The Road
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Posted in Books, Cultural Phenomena, Fiction, Visual Media
Maximizing Reading Group Discussion: BONUS Tips
As the last segment in a three-part series on maximizing reading group discussion, this post reviews how to end the conversation–and the meeting–on the right note. (New to the series? Read the first two installments here and here.) Asking the…
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