March 31. 2010.
Archive for March, 2010
Tex Types
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Tex’s Platform
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010March 24, 2010.
Windy Today
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010March 17, 2010.
Instructional Technology
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010March 10, 2010.
March 17, 2010
Drawing Some Texas Lit
Monday, 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
Saturday, March 6th, 2010March 6, 2010.
Here’s a great song and video on the pull of art.
Light & Dark
Thursday, 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.
