Resources
During our conversations, we sometimes discuss resources we have found helpful. We think you may find them useful as well, so we have made them available for you to use as well (when we have been allowed to share them).
Did we reference a resource that you don't see included here? Email us and let us know!
Resources are organized by episode below.
Season Two
Episode Eleven: Building Skills for Analysis
This is part two of our series on Building Skills for the Literature Class. We talked about the different ways we develop our students' analytical skills.
Margaret mentioned a video she uses to demonstrate a literary analysis to her students. You can find the video here.
You can also check out Margaret's analysis-focused midterm here. This can be used as an exam or class assignment.
You may also find our blog post useful for providing your students with formula!
Season One
Episode Three: Objectively, Teaching
When framing your course around its objectives rather than its texts, you may find it useful to refer to Bloom's Taxonomy. This framework of knowledge can help you pair assessments with skill sets over the course of your semester. You can learn more about Bloom's Taxonomy here.
Margaret discussed her assignment, Critical Conversations. You can find a PDF of the assignment here.
Season One
Episode Twelve: Teaching Faulkner and Morrison
We chatted about some digital resources you may find useful for teaching the works of Faulkner and Morrison.
You can find Digital Yoknapatawpha here. This resource is the result of a collaboration between the University of Virginia and an International Team of Faulkner Scholars.
You can find a portion of Princeton's Toni Morrison archives available here. These include Morrison's personal papers and manuscripts for some of her best-known novels.
Season One Episode Two: Maximizing Your Syllabus
In this week's episode, we briefly discussed using word clouds to assess your students' changing understanding of a course topic. You can find instructions for that activity here.
For handling the logistics of building your syllabus, refer to Caleb McDaniel's syllabus generator.
One resource that we didn't discuss but want to share is Arizona State University's Course Objective Developer. This tool can help you construct your course objectives from scratch. Refer to Bloom's Taxonomy before starting for the best results!
Season One
Episode Five: Creating a Lit Online Class
We discussed some of our favorite digital resources to incorporate into an online classroom. You can find some of them below!
Paige has used Flip.Grid for discussions with her online classes.
Paige also uses Padlet for class activities like annotations.
Margaret records lectures using Screencast-O-Matic.
Margaret also uses Canva to create supplementary materials.