Diane K. Jakacki

Tag: Shakespeare

  • Student Digital Edition: Observations & Reflections

    Student Digital Edition: Observations & Reflections

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    I’ve written before about the final project I assigned to my students for this term’s ENGL1102: Shakespeare’s English Histories course. The assignment was an ambitious experiment to see how students would collaborate on a digital edition of the Queen’s Men play The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth. I haven’t yet assessed the students’ final artifacts,…

  • Toward a better research project

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    This week my ENGL 1102 students will begin presenting their short research projects. I’ve used this assignment twice before, but this time there are a few new twists. The project still involves the development of a class-wide knowledge base designed to help students better grasp the context of medieval and early modern culture and society,…

  • Respite from the Grading Trenches

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    I took time off this morning to consider why the heck I’m teaching this stuff: “Once More Unto the Breach, Or, Why Teach Shakespeare to Georgia Tech Undergraduates.” And now back to the trenches.

  • Wrestling with Titus – Round Two

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    What a difference reading a few blog posts and in-class discussion makes! After my disheartened post of Sunday I went back and read through a number of the course blog posts and comments that students posted last week regarding their reactions to watching Titus and its relation to their experiences reading Titus Andronicus. Their observations…

  • Wrestling with Titus

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    My students have been working their way through Titus Andronicus over the past two weeks. I knew it was ambitious to tackle that play with first-year students who do not, on the whole, express any real enthusiasm for early modern drama. There have been successes so far, most notably their reaction to seeing a production…