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Stories from the Classroom
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Teaching Literature - Some Memories and Methods
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| "Teaching literature is not brain surgery.
No one will die if we make a mistake about Dryden. And
we can't be at our best, most reflective, most experimental
every day and in every class. As Kenneth Eble writes,
"teaching at the top of one's abilities is exhausting.
One cannot operate at that pitch all the time and recognizing
that fact is not a sign that one is falling short."
Some days, even some weeks or months, we may just want
to be good-enough teachers, get by on knowledge and
experience. Sometimes we need to fall back on the tried
and the true. But we can improve our students' lives
and morale by sharing ideas about how to teach better,
and improve our own lives and morale by thinking about
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ELAINE SHOWALTER, TEACHING LITERATURE
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Do you have any ideas about how to teach literature? Would
you like to share your good and bad experiences of teaching?
We'd love to hear your stories from the classroom. If you
have something to say, e-mail it to Laura
Montgomery and we'll post your thoughts on the Teaching
Literature website.
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