College English instructor to freshman students: “What exactly did you do in high-school English class?” They talk about giving oral presentations and keeping reading journals evaluated with a big, meaningless check. They reveal putting on skits...one student recounts a month of junior English class in which she and her classmates produced digital short film adaptations of the trial in The Scarlet Letter. “Sounds fun,” I say to this student, a girl who would not know how to summarize a source or correct a sentence fragment if her life depended on it.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:58:00 +0000
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