Teaching – Sprockets and Springes

Help with Hoccleve – Second Unessay

What exactly are you looking at, aren’t they just regular annotations? They aren’t entirely “normal” annotations. I’ll explain this. I tried to make a group of annotations using Hypothesis that could help people in the future while reading Hoccleve’s Complaint. Hypothesis is an extension that people can use to annotate a text online. The extensionContinue reading “Help with Hoccleve – Second Unessay”

Brit Lit I: the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries

As the start of the fall semester looms closer, my attention has been drawn away from syllabus construction and blogging and toward a lot of the nitty gritty details of teaching: course schedules, Blackboard shells, writing assignments, and of course scheduling service commitments. In the midst of all that, here’s what I currently have forContinue reading “Brit Lit I: the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries”

Brit Lit I: The Middle Ages

As I select texts for the Middle Ages portion of my Brit Lit I syllabus, I’ve drawn inspiration from Rebecca Futo Kennedy’s site and from episodes 51 and 52 of The Endless Knot. I find myself continually humbled by how much I need to learn and grateful for the work that others have done. MyContinue reading “Brit Lit I: The Middle Ages”

New Recommendations for EN/Brit Lit I

As my title suggests, the biggest change for the EN Lit I survey this year at UA English is the shift from “requirements” to “recommendations.” Here are the new recommendations I promised to talk about in my last post: British Literature Survey (EN 205, 206) Recommended Guidelines The first thing I’d like to close readContinue reading “New Recommendations for EN/Brit Lit I”

Decolonizing MY Syllabus

It’s summer! Or rather, it’s four days until the summer solstice and about smack dab in the middle of the awkward, anxious pause between spring and fall semesters. For those outside of academia, the summer is often seen as a perk of teaching, a pure vacation from the stress of classes and students. As aContinue reading “Decolonizing MY Syllabus”