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Students discuss “What is literature?” through a brief introduction to a variety of literary schools of thought, such as Russian Formalism (New Criticism), Marxism, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, HIstorical, and Post-Modernism. Students take on a persona through which they analyse a short fiction piece. Students’ create a podcast or blog in which they criticize and reflect on their reading and analysis. These responses and reflection will be used to measure growth over the duration of the course.

Activity 1
In a group of __no more than three__, choose on of the following topics:


 * TOPIC || STUDENTS || Presentation Date ||
 * Psychoanalytic - Freud, Lacan || Mia/Liz/EmilyT || 28 FEB ||
 * Marxist - Terry Eagleton || AmandaP/Aaron/Alex || 27 FEB ||
 * Feminist - de Beauvoir || Colin/Wil || 7 MAR ||
 * Russian Formalism - Bahktin, Jakobson || Lindsey/Jen/Sasha || 1 MAR ||
 * Geneva School - Georges Poulet || Amanda J/ Sam/Sam || 23 FEB ||
 * New Historicism - Geertz, Foucault ||  ||   ||
 * Post-Structuralism - Derrida, de Man || Dean/Parker/Marco || 6 MAR ||
 * Post-Modernist - Baudrillard, Lyotard || Ashley/Erika/Emily B || 5 MAR ||

1. Create a lesson plan giving a detailed outline of your eventual presentation.
 * Objectives: 3 of them phrased in the following way: "Students will be able to..."
 * Resources: Everything you need to have in class in order to carry out your lesson
 * Methodology: Broken down by duration and content -- who says what who does what, when and for how long
 * Evaluation: How will you know that the students have attained your objectives? A few cautionary comments here:
 * no quizzes - the whole Jeopardy thing is not an accurate measure of learning or comprehension
 * no candies!!!

2. A handout or booklet - sort of a Dummies Guide to... as a resource for the class. I will give your exemplars of such handouts created by students in previous years. 3. Post this to the DGLitCrit wiki page 4. A full class presentation on your topic. This will be recorded and podcast.

Activity 2
Test