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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

EDUC 412-4 ?

DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: SECONDARY

LANGUAGE ?

ROBERT MANERY

email: nnanery@sfu.ca

Wednesday 5:30-9:20 EDB 9651

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will begin with an examination of theoretical concepts drawn from reader-response theories

(textual, experiential, psychological, social, and cultural) and hermeneutics to provide a theoretical

framework for classroom practice. We will investigate the implications of these theories for the

development of writing and reading programs.

Goals

• The enrichment and discipline of the verbal imagination. The study of the literary arts and their

history.

• The imparting of a command of the intricate logics of discourse that language embodies and grammar

codifies.

• The overseeing and building on the process of reading, writing, speaking, viewing and listening so

that students learn to organize and reflect on their thinking.

• The initiating of students into possible worlds that may enlarge self-understanding in a positive and

ethical manner

Requirements

1.

Three brief (750-1000 words) pieces of work /commentaries on issues/ideas raised in the readings

or in class discussion (20%).

2.

Group presentation (didactic) incorporating selections from texts studied in class.

(15%)

3. Group performance incorporating selections from texts studied in class.

(15%)

4. The production of a thematic unit plan for Secondary Language Arts (40%)

5.

Attendance and participation at all classes and at a performance of BARD ON THE BEACH.

(10%)

Required Texts

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. Knopf Canada, 2006. ISBN: 0676977103.

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Global Shakespeare Series. (Dom Saliani, Ed.).

ITP Nelson, 1997. ISBN: 0176066217.

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