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Thanks to Prof.s Stephens, Strycharski, and James for these exceedingly useful comments. I don't have a class wiki, but I do use blackboard an awful lot, and that will work just as well. And if I can figure out how to give extra credit, I will do so as well! As for the "folksy" setting, I remember once hearing a Shakespeare sonnet sung as a 12-bar blues. It changed how I read Shakespeare. It also changed how I listen to the blues. pch Andrew Strycharski wrote: > A possible way to handle the embarrassment factor: > > Largely to make some level of performance possible with large upper > division literature sections (50 students at FIU), I had students in > my Ren. Lit. class last fall record "performative readings" (audio or > a/v, their choice) of lyric poems and upload them to a class wiki. > (Many students can do the recording on their cels.) Their lyric poetry > project pages also included a paraphrase of the Renaissance poem and a > brief analytical essay, which was *supposed,* at least, to underscore > the choices they made in their readings. Each student was also > assigned responses to the lyric poetry project pages of two other > students. When they were done, I chose a few examples of strong > readings and played them for the class. (Including one by a music > student who gave his sonnet a folksy setting and sang it with guitar.) > > I'll be doing something similar in the Sidney Circle course I'm > teaching in the spring, so this conversation is quite helpful to me as > I imagine how to revise the project assignment to get more, um, > consistency. Thanks everyone! > > -Andy Strycharski > > > Peter C. Herman wrote: >> A question for Prof. Davis (or anyone else): how do you handle the >> embarrassment factor? Many of my students resisted the idea of >> reciting a memorized poem because they are terrified of speaking >> either in front of the class or even in front of me in the >> semi-privacy (the door is always open) of my office? I'm serious >> about this question, because I take Prof. Fleming's point and would >> really like to have all my students do some form of >> memorization/performance. >> >> pch >> > > -- > Andrew Strycharski, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor, English Department > Florida International University > [log in to unmask] > > DM 453 > 11200 SW 8th Street > Miami, FL 33199 > > phone: 305-348-2989 > fax: 305-348-3878 > -- >