The Group Oral Project

For your oral project, you will break up into groups of 4-5 students and lead class for one hour on a Thursday of your choice. Your group must meet with me the Thursday or Friday before the week you teach to run some preliminary ideas by me and get initial advice from me. You must then meet as a group over the weekend, decide on your goals for your class, the ways you will try to achieve them, and what each of you will do to both prepare for and lead the class. You may contact me by email if you have any questions at any point. If you have any handouts you want me to copy and distribute in class Tuesday, you must get them to me by 3:30 Monday afternoon. If the handouts aren't needed until you teach Thursday, you may get originals to be copied to me by 3:30 Wednesday afternoon. When you get me handouts, be sure to provide me with a plan for the hour you'll teach (by Wednesday morning at the latest). I will get back to you--either in a meeting with the group on Wednesday or over email--some advice to be aware of as you make your final plans. I recommend that on the Wednesday before you teach you both meet with me and meet as a group after the meeting with me. You should send a group email to the listserv as soon as you have gotten feedback from me and decided on your final plans--by Wednesday at 11 pm at the latest. Then, after you have taught the class, you must give me two pieces of writing by the following Monday: 1) a group-authored report on what you all did to prepare for teaching and how you feel the class went; and 2) an individually-written reflection on what you learned in the process of doing all this. There is no required length for either of these, although they should be typed or word-processed; just give me enough to put my own observations of how well you prepared and how well the class went into context.

Here are the groups as they stand now. I'm not happy that the last group has six people. Does anyone from that group want to switch? Are you all satisfied with the group you're in? Let me know immediately if you want to change groups.

• Th 10/29: Kathryn Child, Jay Leff, Ellen Klem, Ruthanne Main
• Th 11/5: Ann Zelter, Kate Hall, A.J. Dolce, Katie Williams
• Th 11/12: Lizz Wright, Chris Tehan, Keith Wojcinski, Tim Short
• Th 11/19: Lisa McGuire, Jeremy Button, Jessica Fortunate, Mike Richardson, Allyson Marino
• Th 12/3: Teresa Blount, Charles Brownson, Mike Goebel, Karla Thurlow, Mikey Whetstone, Kerry McGrath

Good luck with this and have fun.

EN 336: Modern American Literature, Fall 1998
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