Week 3: Teaching Short Stories

In Class

• Caroline Turner's Teaching Demo: Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Discussion of teaching the following short stories:
  • "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
  • "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood
  • "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
• Lesson Plan and Teaching Demo

Assignments

• Read these chapters:
  • Showalter, Teaching Literature (in shared folder):
    • Chapter 3: Methods of Teaching Literature
    • Chapter 6: Teaching Fiction (review)
  • Kay, Matthew R. Not light, but fire: How to lead meaningful race conversations in the classroom. (link to ebook) - Introduction
• Read
  • Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (in shared folder)
  • “The Act of Vanishing” by Megan Falley
  • “Little Boy Blue Navy Blazer” from Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (in shared folder)
  • “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris

• Write a 1-2 page discussion on what literary and rhetorical concepts you would focus on when teaching Giovanni's Room or any of the assigned creative nonfiction works referencing Fletcher, Showalter, and Kay. Post in Google Classroom before class next week.