3. Course Overview
• Teaching of literature focus
• Collaboration among teachers
• Class times / meetings last week
• Questions about the syllabus
4. Course website
• Using technology this summer to add to the collaborative
nature of what we are doing—intra- and inter-
• Collect preferred emails
• Anonymity and privacy
• How to add a post to the course blog
5. Writing Assignment
• In a post to the course blog:
• What is research?
• Answer via definition, anecdote, memory, exposition, your
choice.
• Forget the teacher- / teaching-focused nature of the course and
focus on your personal experience with research.
6. Inquiry Questions
• Inquiry questions will be:
• Practice-focused (“How do I . . . ?” or “What are the best
ways to . . . ?”)
• No asking “Why . . . ?”
• Focused on some aspect of teaching literature, but not just
reading—writing about literature, discussing
literature, pairing literature with expository texts, etc
7. Homework
• Readings as listed in syllabus—think about what is /
should be the connection between teaching and research.
• Think: Choose one or two inquiry questions you might
explore for your major projects during the course.
