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Reading Response Journals (Electronic/Online)

Assignment Author
Tim TurnerPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Goals and Purposes:

  • To ensure that students are keeping up with the reading and engaging with the material and the ideas presented in the course.
  • To maintain a record of student development over the course of the semester. This record will not only provide a sense of consistent issues in student writing, but also of where the class has been in terms of content and ideas.
  • To help students prepare for the final project, which will involve revising these journal entries as part of a larger, written response to the course's content.
Submitted by timturner on May 31, 2008 - 2:34pm

Group Presentations

Assignment Author
Allyson LaBordePedagogical Goals of the Assignment
The primary goal of the presentations was to prepare the students to brainstorm and come up with trial theses for their final papers. Of course, the presentations also served the secondary purpose of giving students a break from my being a central figure in the class and allowed them to take more ownership of class discussions.

Submitted by smith on May 2, 2008 - 2:51pm

Paper #2: Performance as Interpretation

Assignment Author
Brian GattenPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
interpretation, research, audience

Submitted by smith on May 2, 2008 - 2:45pm

Faculty Mentor Program

2008-2009 E314/E318 Faculty Mentor Program
Any English department faculty member who will be in residence during the Fall 08 term is eligible to serve as an E314/318 teaching mentor. The list below includes people who have done so in the past (I may have inadvertently left off a few names), but there is no necessity to limit your thinking to this list. As a general rule of thumb, it is probably better not to have your dissertation director also serve as your teaching mentor. We want to multiply the number of people with good things to say about you when you look for a job!

Click here for a copy of the mentor form, which must be submitted to Dr. Barrish by August 21, 2008.

E314J: Literature Across the Curriculum
Davis, Diane; Doherty, Brian; Friedman, Alan
Winship, Michael; Woods, Jorie

E314L: Approaches to Ethnic and Minority American Literatures
Cox, James

Re-forming of Sheherazade: A Story For A Life?

Resource Author
Amena Moinfar

E314V Mexican American Literature and Culture: Dr. John Gonzalez

Resource Author
Dr. John Gonzalez

English Assignments and Other Resources

Below are links which will lead you to some assignments that have been used in different English courses. They are arranged by the most relevant course, however the assignments are portable between courses. One good way to find assignments that will be relevant to you is to use the eFiles search function, plugging in the names of authors, texts, genres, themes, types of assignments, etc. You may also click on the tags found in the tag box on the left (to find all "paper" assignments for example). Some documents will be easier to read in the printer friendly version.

We would be very grateful for additional contributions of assignments!

E314 and 318

E316K

General English Teaching Resources

E314V Mexican American Literature and Culture

Mexican American Literature and Culture

E314V Gay and Lesbian Literature and Culture

Gay and Lesbian Literature and Culture Course descriptions

Introduction

The CWRL's Feminist Pedagogy workgroup (active until 2007) maintained a collection of syllabi, assignments, essays, and CWRL white papers in response to instructors' desire to explore and incorporate feminist pedagogical principles and practices into their teaching.

In particular, the Feminist Pedagogy workgroup sought to
* develop our definitions and analyze our practice of feminist pedagogy
* explore the diverse origins of feminist pedagogy
* integrate perspectives from nonwestern feminisms and queer studies
* articulate links between feminist pedagogy and technology-based instruction.

The following pages are a summary of that work:
* "Syllabi and Assignments" identifies pedagogical resources on eFiles and elsewhere.
* "Bibliography and Links" includes annotated links to relevant essays, CWRL-authored white papers, and websites.

What is Feminist Pedagogy?