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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
SUMMER SEMESTER 2006
EDUC 412-4
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DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: SECONDARY LANGUAGE
ARTS
(D01.00)
DR. GEOFFREY MADOC-JONES
Office: EDB 8673
Phone: 291-5969
Tuesday 8:30-12:20 in EDB 8620F
Prerequisite:
EDUC
401/402
Description
This course will focus on developing knowledge and understanding to create a rich and stimulating
language arts program in the secondary school classroom. Issues in the teaching of the reading of
literature, writing, speaking, listening and viewing will be examined through current theory and teaching
practice. There will be some emphasis on teaching Canadian and B.C. authors.
Outline
1.
The historical context of modernity and post-modernity and its cultural, social and individual
ramifications for ELA educators
will be investigated.
2.
The key concepts in this area of study, such as: literature, genre, semantics, semiotics, discourse,
writing process reader
response, hermeneutics, media studies, evaluation and education, will be examined through an
investigation of their
epistemological and historical roots as well as by an analysis of the contemporary debate in the area
of language theory.
3.
A series of literary works will be studied in common, both for the purpose of explication and as the
basis for the development
of practical criticism.
4.
A variety of expressive forms written, spoken and visual, will be studied so that students can
develop and present their own
creative performances.
5.
Recent contributions to our understanding of how secondary school learner's thinking and interests
develop will be studied,
as well as how these could affect the design of curricula and the implementation of instruction.
6.
Drawing on the readings and the expressive activities, students will focus on the production of a
piece of curriculum for the
secondary ELA classroom.
Requirements
1. Four brief pieces of work, using a variety of media where appropriate, on ideas and/or issues
raised by the readings or
work in class. (20%)
2 Group performance-incorporating selections from the literary works. (20%)
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3.
Group presentation of a didactic scheme based on the performance. (20%)
4.
Major paper or the creation of a piece of curriculum in the area of secondary language arts. (40%)
Texts
1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. William Shakespeare. Global Shakespeare. ISBN: 0176066179
2.
Fugitive Pieces. Anne Michaels. M&S. ISBN
0-7710-5885-3
3.
One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children. M. Harrison and C. Stuart-Clark. OUP. ISBN
0192762583
4.
Metamorphoses. Ovid. Oxford World Classics. ISBN: 019283472-X
6.
West by Northwest. British Columbia Short Stories. Editors: David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson.
1998. Polestar.
ISBN 1-896095-41-0
7.
The Raven Steals the Light. William Reid and Robert Bringhurst. Douglas & McIntyre, 1996 ISBN:
1550544810
Other Resources
A series of papers and online resources will be provided by the instructor during the course.
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