** Formerly known as Shakespeare in the Classroom.
The course will have teacher candidates explore performance text, and consider the use of voice, body language, gestures, stage direction, etc. as a way to enhance students’ learning and understanding in a secondary English classroom. Teacher candidates will be introduced to relevant theories and practices, considering approaches and implications of implementing performance text into the classroom. The class will then consider the transition from dramatic text into film [“Film” in the context of this class referring to the moving image, or movies.]. Teacher candidates will explore ways in which film can be implemented as visual text in their classrooms, considering “film as film”, and will be introduced to different cinematic techniques, relevant film theories and methods of analysis. The course will be hands-on, and focused on helping teacher candidates to collect resources and develop assignment ideas for their own classrooms.
Course Outline: LLED 439_Fall_2017
Sept 11 (Performance Text Acting it Out Chapters 1 & 2; Julius Casesar Marc Antony’s monologue activity.)