Chapter 3 Class Activities
Freewriting
Spend a few minutes answering this critical central question for universities:
- What is the value of an education in the humanities/liberal arts/social sciences?
Class Discussion
- The Great Books Curriculum
- Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
- Roosevelt Montás’ Rescuing Socrates
- Coming to IUP on March 2, 2023–Read Across America Day!
- Review of the book by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
- Lists of Great Books
The Dartmouth Conference (1966)
- “A Brief History of The Dartmouth Conference” by Christiane Donahue (2015)
- “Impact of the 1966 Seminar” by Christiane Donahue (2015)
- “The Dartmouth Conference: Its Reports and Results” by Jack R. Sublette: College English, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Dec., 1973), pp. 348-357 (Requires login via IUP account)
Freewriting
Spend a little time reflecting on these questions that were discussed at the Dartmouth Conference:
- What is English?
- What method should we use to teach English?
- What do you think of the perennialist/essentialist approach (the Great Books Approach)?
- What do you think of the progressivist approach (experience based learning)?
- What do you think of the existentialist approach (finding yourself)?
- Discuss the importance of teacher/learning/subject matter for English teaching.
- Discuss the importance of reading/writing/speaking/listening.
Class Discussion
- We will talk in general about the subject of English.
The IUP Composition and Applied Linguistics (CAL) Conference (2023)
- YouTube Video: Michael Wesch’s Vision of Students Today
- Dr. Michael Wesch (Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography, 2008 U.S. Professor of the Year, Kansas State University)
- Digital Ethnography (referred to in the video), but now relocated to: My Teaching Notebook
- Video Music by Tyrad
- Your Teaching Vision Statement
- First vision
- Discussion of visions