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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

(E200)

Monday 17:30-21:20

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Robert Manery

WMC2200

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email: rmanery@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE: EDUC 401/402

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

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Three brief (750-1000 words) commentaries on issues/ideas raised in the readings or in class

discussion (30%).

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Grouppresentation of a lesson incorporating selections from texts studied in class. (20%)

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

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

(10%)

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Required Texts

Ishiguro, Kazuo.

Never Let Me Go.

Knopf Canada,, 2006. ISBN: 0676977103.

Shakespeare, William.

Othello.

2nd Ed. Cambridge School Shakespeare Series. (Jane Coles,

Ed.). Cambridge University Press,

2005.

ISBN13: 9780521618762.

Courseware.