Ann’s Blog

            After reading the narrative of technological instruction use in an urban Midwest school in Aslup & Busch’s book But will it work with real students? it has been proven yet again that technology is a risky endeavour to take on due to classroom management, administrative understanding and proper technological equipment that will perform. It […]

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Being that I have recently begun student teaching in a sixth grade language arts classroom, I was excited to read what Janet Alsup and Jonathan Bush had to say about secondary literature and reading pedagogy. Yesterday my mentor teacher incorporated modeling of reading comprehension processes into her classroom, and today the students participated in literature circles. […]

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As I have stated previously, I am a strong believer that literary theories such as Reader Response, Marxism, and Feminism should be taught in tandom in the secondary English classroom. However, since Marxism and Feminism are so closely related in many ways I think that each of these theories becomes stronger and more relevant when […]

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I have always been a believer that Shakespeare’s work can and should be made relevant to high school students. The work of Shakespeare naturally seems to open itself to lively discussion as it approaches universal life themes such as love, conflict, appearances, and order. Rex Gibson’s book Teaching Shakespeare was very useful to me as […]

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As I begin to reflect on my own experiences with literary theory, I realize that never during my four years of high school English did I ever hear these two words put together. In fact, I was well into college and had declared English as my major before I began to learn how to interpret […]

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Hello All,
My name is Ann and I am currently a graduate student in an English Education program. Before joining this program I earned my Bacholor’s degree in English and I have some experience as a substitute teacher as well. I am very excited about beginning my teaching career next year as teaching has been my dream for many years. […]

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