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Fortunately, I stumbled upon your website last night as I was researching DEAD POETS SOCIETY, a movie I have shown all of my students for the past 16 or 17 years. I still aspire to be like Mr. Keating! After 41 years of teaching, I retired in May because of the ridiculous, merciless browbeating of administrators and legislators in the state of MS. Praise the Lord! A local private, Christian school called to ask me if I would teach one class of speech a day. Happily, I said I’d be delighted, even though literature is “my baby.” Can you steer me towards any good ways of teaching speech? I want my students to have my opportunities to speak in class, but I don’t want to bore them with gobs of notes on pronunciationm, articulation, correct breathing techniques, etc. I want them to find joy in the spoken word as I see joy in literary works. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for caring so much that you do all of this. I’m so delighted to have find you! Chaleygirl
Resources for Teaching Public Speaking // Sep 8, 2007 at 6:47 am
[...] free to comment on any post. Thanks for visiting!Chaleygirl, a 41-year veteran of teaching who is starting a new position asks: Can you steer me towards any good ways of teaching speech? I want my students to have my [...]
Congratulations on the new position. Thanks for the great question. I wanted to give you as complete an answer as I could, so I wrote a new post called Resources for Teaching Public Speaking. I hope it helps you.
Classroom Posters for Literature Teachers and other Site News // Sep 19, 2007 at 6:09 am
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I have just finished The Sillmarillion of Tolkien. I found your list and am planning to read it. Why are none of the later History of Middle Earth volumes sited? Just wanted to know for personal reference. Thanks,
Chris
Correction in sentence two, I am planning on using it to structure my future Tolkien reading.
Chris: I’m not as familiar with the later History of Middle Earth volumes, but my impression of them is that they are mostly first drafts that got changed, rather than parts of the story that got left out (with the exception of “The Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings”). I’ll have to review them to see if there’s anything I could add to the list. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.