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End-of-Course Surveys: Using Feedback to Improve Instruction
Five Reasons to Read Bram Stoker's Dracula
British Literature Five Reasons To Teach Series
Five Reasons to Teach Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
British Literature Five Reasons To Teach Series Teaching Ideas
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a classic of British Literature, and in spite of its many sub-par adaptations (I’m looking at you, Jack Black), it remains a timeless tale full of lessons for modern readers. So here are five reasons to teach Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Satire is a tricky art form, and its undisputed master is Jonathan Swift. I mean, he even has an adjective named for him: “swiftian” meaning "darkly humorous." Gulliver’s Travels, written in 1726, lampoons everything from religious infighting to political parties to the monarchy itself. Swift was an ordained Irish priest who did not...
How to Self-Publish a Book: The Simple and Not-So-Simple Method
World Myth Speed Dating: Exploring 32 Myths from Around the World in a Single Class Period
Mythology Teaching Ideas World Literature
What can a myth tell you about a culture? Maybe a better question would be, what can't it tell you? Social customs, traditions, beliefs, and values–they're all embedded there within the story. Myths are windows into cultures, but with such a wide variety of cultures in the world, how, within the time constraints of a high-school course, do you achieve a panoramic look at myths from all corners of the globe? That question led me to the idea of World Myth Speed Dating. Based on information I've gleaned from sitcoms, Speed Dating is a social gathering where singles pair up time...