Student-centered relevance

Slightly out of chron. order here, but…
Donald Tinney may have been talking about high school students, but I immediately related to what he was saying. The age of the student does not really matter. His message as an English teacher is what counts: “If I am to believe that I am relevant, that my [...]

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Paula’s plan

I think that Paula Mathieu’s essay might be my least favorite thus far in “The Relevance of English”, and I’m not entirely sure why. It might have something to do with the fact the Paula Mathieu referred to herself in the third person, which I find a bit pretentious; or it might have something to [...]

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Sorry Nellen, but…

I just got finished reading Nellen’s article, and I must say I am a bit put off by it. I usually try to give every article a chance and find something beneficial about what the author is saying, but Nellen’s was just…weird.  It seemed disconnected. For such a short article, to spend so much time [...]

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ISO: Plural Commons

Yancey begins her essay with mentioning Alaska, and of course I spent the remainder of my reading time devoted to seeing Sarah Palin’s name somewhere in the text. I was grossly disappointed by the sad lack of Palinisms within the text, and actually, I don’t know if I was disappointed by the text as a [...]

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Word

I kind-of feel like I don’t need to write a blog because I read Nicole’s and I’m in the same place.  I read the same articles she did, and I also teach seniors.  The same laments and complaints that she faces over teaching British Literature are the same ones I face.  As I read Drye, [...]

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Technocentric America

The article by Selfe & Selfe was a good read, insofar as it relates another series of relevant issues within the English curriculum. Once again, an article seeks to add on to the role of the English teacher, and I feel this article was at least as successful as some of the less-engaging treatises that [...]

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