March 10, 2010.
March 17, 2010
Instructional Technology
March 10th, 2010Drawing Some Texas Lit
March 8th, 2010March 8, 2010.
Here below are drawings from a sophomore literature class I’m teaching. Students are reading selections from Elmer Kelton’s Pecos Crossing, Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, and Mary Karr’s Cherry. The assignment here was to simply illustrate a scene or response to one of these texts or excerpt from text.
Art, I Want You
March 6th, 2010March 6, 2010.
Here’s a great song and video on the pull of art.
Light & Dark
March 4th, 2010March 4, 2010.
Here are images from a handout I used yesterday in my American literature class; it contains two visual tools for plotting narrative development and characterization.
The top one was inspired by an entry from Austin Kleon’s blog. The second is just a line on which we can organize characters based on how we think they might represent light (positive/goodness) or dark (negative/evil) virtues.