Closure

The course is basically about alternative readings and materials to teach literature in the language classroom. The small "L" is what you all are trained for, that is the teaching of language using literary texts as resource. In schools students and teachers only deal with the four main genres (poetry, novel, short story and drama). Here we are telling you that alternative materials exist and can be used effectively. Never underestimate the power of a simple fable or a folktale told before bedtime.

You are also given the task to select and adapt texts that may or may not be suitable in the language classroom. Be adventurous, I say. But you must always know what you are doing and what effect it will have on the minds of your students.

A good teacher can make a text come alive. A good teacher can make even the simplest text useful to the most difficult situation. A good teacher can make a text from the days of old relevant in the eyes of the contemporary society esp the young adults who are our main audience.

All the best teachers. We have the best job in the world teaching literature in the language classroom. Say it many times and you will eventually believe it. I already have.

Thank you!

A brief review

I can only afford a brief review for the assignments you have done. It's impossible to comment on each and everyone of your work but believe me you have awarded yourselves with what you deserve. Well done.

Position Paper 20 marks (Ranging from 18-10)

I've given you all a step by step guide on how to come up with a good position paper. You have sent me your titles/positions, and your arguments in 3 points, we've done revisions before I said yes.

Now, the thing is, writing a position paper, like any other paper that is academic in nature, is quite straight forward. Just elaborate the outline, elaborate the points of argument CLEARLY and you're there already. Most of you who didn't score gave me a hard time reading. You hardly guided me through your writing. You were so happy writing that you didn't care that there were some form and structure to abide to.

The title/position is a major thing. Most of you understood and did wonderfully in coming up with a clear strong stand.

The use of paragraph markers are important.

Emphasising the stand at the end of your introduction is important.

Having your points at the first sentence of the paragraphs is important.

Being language teachers, good writing is important.

If you have all that, then 18 marks is for you. 10 marks probably means you didn't even have enough points and the writing of the argument is not clear.

Blog 20 marks (Ranging from 20-15)

As I've mentioned earlier, I'm quite pleased with your work. There are people who have not written enough entries.

It's very easy to see if you have written things from your heart. The writing style is consistent.

Audios and visuals put on the blogs are impressive and suitable.

Online Tasks 20 marks (Ranging from 20-18)

The purpose of these tasks is to push you to explore a bit more on the different genres of alternative texts given in the modules.

I did ask you all to find your answers online, and copy and pasting is allowed just as long you are aware of the existence of these information. I leave it to God if you had merely gone to another person's blog and stolen answers from it. I do check, you see.

Some of you took pains to write sentences in your own words. Well done.

The persona poem were wonderful although I cannot understand why the template wasn't used by some of you. The reason for the template is to see the use of adjectives and noun phrases n your understanding of a character. Useful in a literature classroom! Did I find any plagiarised work? maybe I did.

Research Paper 40 marks (Ranging from 36-28)

 Since you are off campus, I'm not to strict about this assignment. As long as you know mainly how a paper is organised, that's enough. If you are planning to do a master's degree in the future, there is still so much to learn. I am not going to claim that with this assignment, you are ready for a thesis. I salute those who have done honest research and written the paper on their own. With the advent of technology it is hard to keep track of these things. On campus each lecturer is assigned maximum 5 students, who will come to meet us with several drafts before handing in. It's impossible to do the same with the 22 of you. But like I said, as long as you know the process and how a paper is organised, that's enough for this level, given the situation that we are all in.

Marks for Tugasan 2 and 3

Hello everyone, I'm sure everyone has taken a look at their results.

Due to some tardiness in submitting some earlier marks, tugasan 2 and 3 are combined in the SMP. Here are the list of the actual marks. What you see in the SMP is 20+40+40 but in actual fact it is still 20+20+20+40

Matric Number	Tugasan 1 Position Paper 20	Tugasan 2 Blog 20	Tugasan 3 Online Tasks 20	Tugasan 4 Research Paper 40
J34070		18	20
J34110		18	19
J36340		8	10
J36470		15	20
J38828		19	20
J38837		18	20
J38838		20	20
J38844		17	20
J38845		20	20
J38846		18	20
J38851		15	18
J38853		20	20
J38855		20	20
J38857		20	20
J38861		20	20
J38862		18	20
J38864		20	20
J38865		18	20
J38867		20	20
J38869		20	20
J38891		20	20
J38860		18	18