English 582R
Dr. Morillo
Pope and Swift
Student Lead-offs: Speaking & Teaching Assignment
time: you choose a day from Monday,
Feb. 11 on
I call these lead-offs to try to reduce the formality and anxiety
attendant spontaneously generated by calling them teaching
presentations. Your job is to speak and start the class on a chosen
day. You may stay in your seat, move to mine, or stand. Whatever is
most comfortable. You may pose a question strictly orally or in
writing, make a statement, hand out a passage in writing, project a
file or use any other teaching aid, stake a position, anything to
initiate the day's work on given readings. It can spring solely from
your fertile brain or play off others' ideas, including mine, but
should show some originality. It should take no more than 10 minutes to
present the complete lead-off idea to us.
Following the baseball analogy, you are not expected to do it all, only
to get it started with some promise. You aren't teaching the whole
class and will need help from your fellow students. You are on
call to be especially prepared for one or more (your choice) texts for
that day and should use your wits to encourage comparable preparation
and engagement from your fellows.