Intriguing posts, Joe. I was interested in your course outline, as
someone who over the years came to want fewer poets & more poems by
those I chose to present (then sent students off to read others for
their papers). I also had the class presentations on a particularly
famous volume by one of the poets being taken up in the class. That
often proved interesting (always, as usual, depending on how 'into it'
the presenters got).
It's a hard choice, either way can work. In my CanLit classes near the
end, I only included a couple of books of poetry, along with the
novels, & the collection of Alice Munro's short stories.
Let us know how that poetry ploy works with the 15 year olds, eh.
Doug
On 18-Jan-08, at 9:24 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
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> - Teaching poetry to fifteen year olds
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> - Tillie Olsen film (via A Practical Policy)
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> - Blogging the Bach suites for unaccompanied cello & trying to catch
> up with Jonathan Mayhew
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> - Etc.
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> http://sharpsand.net
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> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
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