Salt and Light

While reading Alsup and Bush’s text, “But will it work with real students?” I was startled to come across the charge that we, as English teachers, need to consider “why [we] think literature should be taught” (2).  My initial reaction was a dumbfounded, “well, isn’t it obvious!?” Reading and studying literature helps students learn to […]

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       Rex Gibson, in his book Teaching Shakespeare, states, “Knowledge about Shakespeare’s language is best acquired actively.  When the language is spoken, enacted, explored, performed and used in ways which recognize and celebrate its dramatic qualities, response to the language is enlivened” (p. 92).  There is no denying the excitement and drama of Shakespeare’s language […]

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