Blog - On Literature and Teaching
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Blog #1: Lesson plans and improvisation: Be more jazz!
#1: https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-student-teacher-one-of-first-things.html
Blog #2 & 3 : Literature Town - Part 1 and Part 2
Blogs #4,5: On beauty, taste and hearing the performance
Blog #6, 7, 8: Thinking when reading - Thinking about what? - Part 1,2,3
Blog #9: Taming the Terminator - AI and fiction
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2023/11/taming-terminator-ai-and-fiction.html
Blog #10: Our duty is to resist - post-elections blues
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2023/11/our-duty-is-to-resist-post-electoral.html
Blog #11, 12: Selecting texts for class
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2023/12/text-selection-for-class-how-do-i.html
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2023/12/text-selection-for-class-further.html
Blog #13: The real problem with AI? Inertia
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-real-problem-with-ai-inertia.html
Blog #14: My year (2023) in some books:
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/01/farewell-2023-my-year-in-selection-of.html
Blog #15: Reading is a muscle - go flex it!
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2023/12/alan-bennetts-uncommon-reader-has-queen.html
Blog #16: Fiction is real: why we shouldn't talk about 'characters' developing
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/01/fiction-is-real-boy-on-page-can-speak.html
Blog #17: The tyranny of meaning: why your interpretation really matters
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-tyranny-of-meaning-why-your.html
Blog #18: Aim high, aim true: The importance of clear learning aims for the literature class
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/01/aim-high-aim-true-importance-of-clear.html
Blog #19: 'One reads in order to ask questions': the art of asking questions in the literature class
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/02/one-reads-in-order-to-ask-questions-art.html
Blog #20: I now know what I didn't know then: inductive vs deductive reading of Fiction - and why it matters
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-now-know-what-i-didnt-know-then.html
Blog #21: The role of the teacher in the literature class
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-role-of-teacher-in-literature-class.html
Blog #21 & #22: Interpreting fiction: basic principles
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/03/interpreting-fiction-5-basic-principles.html (Principles 1&2)
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/04/interpreting-fiction-3-more-principles.html (Principles 3,4,5)
Blog #23 & #24: Citizenship in class: a different approach
https://litandteach.blogspot.com/2024/04/burgerschapsonderwijs-citizenship-1.html