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Jejak Panda Hai.. Bertemu Lagi Di Website Kesayangan Anda situs bandarq When I was an undergraduate, I loved being an English major because I could do my school work just by taking a novel and going to read it outside somewhere.   I had a few favorite spots, like the courtyard outside the Benton Museum with its tall oaks, fountain, and statue of Bacchus, or this hidden courtyard outside the Young Building which always smelled of the katsura trees planted there. In grad school in California, there were several great coffee shops where I used to love to read, especially this place called Café Mokka.   I’d drink way too much coffee, read, and write letters to people back east. In the early years of my teaching career, I used to assign tasks to myself, mostly to fill in gaps.   One winter I read all the Shakespeare plays I had never read, about twenty-five in all, even Cymbeline and Coriolanus . Later, I created an elective called the Contemporary Ame...

Jejak Panda Selamat Membaca Di Situs Kesayangan Anda judi bandarq online             This is my fourth year teaching a course called Pre-Teaching Secondary English, for first and second year students who are considering becoming middle or high school English teachers.             Each year, one of the first orders of business is to define English as a field, which is a surprisingly difficult task.   We begin by reading an article called “What Is English?” by H. A. Gleason, which was published in 1964 but that raises many questions that remain remarkably relevant more than fifty years later.             I begin by asking the students to define English as a field, and then to list all the relevant subfields of the discipline.   Gleason never provides a neat and tidy definition, but you can extract...

Jejak Panda Terima Kasih Telah Kunjungin Web Kesayangan Anda bandarq terpercaya This is my second year teaching a one-credit, honors First Year Experience course I designed called Why Read?   Like last year, I have mostly STEM majors, and we’re reading novels that deal with book banning and censorship, and using those novels as launching pads for a broader discussion about the role reading has and should have in our lives. We just began to read Fahrenheit 451 and later in the semester we’ll read The Giver . We just finished reading Brave New World .   Two weeks ago we had just gotten to the point where Bernard and Lenina get to the Reservation and meet John the Savage, and we learn that John, unlike the other people on the Reservation, can read, but that unlike the citizens of the World State who only read practical texts like manuals, John has read literature.   In particular, John has read the complete works of William Shakespeare. As I do in all m...