Kathleen McInerney
Department of English and Speech, Chicago State University

Course

English 360: Methods of Teaching Literature 6-12 (3 credit hours)

Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Education

Approaches to teaching literature through reading, writing, and nonprint media. Stresses practical development of teaching material.

Description

Glossary of Literary Terms: a student-generated glossary of basic literary vocabulary, with links to examples.

Transferability

Any course involving the learning of a disciplinary lexicon, especially introductory courses, could incorporate this assignment, at any level of learning. While this module is specific to assessments and programs of study used in the Chicago Public Schools, other districts have similar resources and assessments. In other courses at different levels, students could be asked to consult any number of the glossaries/lists of disciplinary terms and concepts available on the Internet or composed for a specific course by an instructor. This activity would also be especially transferable, in the English language arts, to rhetorical terms and the study of logic (e.g., logical fallacies). It would also be useful for learning phrases in languages other than English commonly used in English (sub rosa, de facto, bon mot).