A course starting today at the University of California, Santa Cruz:
Reimagining Jane Eyre and Great Expectations: Teaching Literature through Adaptation
An NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers
Project Director(s) Marty Gould
Visiting Faculty Lingerr Senghor; Shelley Karren; Alexa Garvoille; Paul Story; Jacqueline Barrios
Grantee Institution University of California, Santa Cruz
Funded through the Division of Education Programs
Location Santa Cruz, CA
Dates June 23, 2019 - July 12, 2019 (3 weeks)
Using two case studies–Jane Eyre and Great Expectations–this three-week seminar explores various ways teachers can use literary imitations to engage students in the processes of engaged reading and creative expression. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship, the seminar showcases the ways in which the informed study of adaptations can enhance the development of core skills in the areas of critical reading, analytical reasoning, argumentative writing, and creative production. By bringing adaptations into the classroom conversation, teachers can promote active literacy, encouraging students to speak not only about but also to the texts they study.
Two of the most frequently adapted novels of the nineteenth century, Jane Eyre and Great Expectations are ideal sites for our investigation: these are first-person narratives about self-making, of confronting and reconstructing images of oneself, and of grappling with multiple potential versions of one’s life.
At their core, these texts are about how our life’s ambitions are formed, how we develop self-awareness, how we express our identities, and how we empathize and communicate with those unlike us, lessons essential to the formation of self-aware and ethically responsible citizens of a diverse society.
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