Kathleen McInerney
Department of English and Speech, Chicago State University

Course

English 360: Methods of Teaching Literature 6-12 (3 credit hours)

Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Education

Approaches to teaching literature through reading, writing, and nonprint media. Stresses practical development of teaching material.

Description

In this module, students will search and evaluate Internet sites useful to students of literature in high school (while this activity is an element of Module 1, it could also stand alone).

Transferability

This assignment would be useful in any introductory course in which students are learning to use discipline-specific knowledge and resources. A geography student, for example, even if she did not intend to become a teacher, would benefit by creating an Internet resource page for high school students. Tutoring research and literature tells us that the students who gain the most, intellectually, in the tutoring relationship are the tutors-certainly, this dynamic would be at play in this module. Such resources generated as a classroom assignment could then find real-world use and an audience by being offered to a partner high school or middle school.