#an effective literary analysis curriculum should involve modeling and repeated practice with frequent feedback

[miodiodavinci]

taking a moment to add my two cents i think

#i am awake because sitting up prevents me from coughing as much it seems #my hot take of the evening is i think that a lot of people who resent literary analysis just didn't get proper scaffolding #when they were exposed to it #i think a lot of people had english teachers who didn't know how to properly structure their instruction and just let kids loose #sending them out onto the seemingly empty field of the page and then immediately lining them up in their crosshairs for judgement #or at least my english teacher was a lot like that #i think a lot of people perceive literary analysis as pointless frustrating right/wrong busy work #or some kind of painful arduous endeavor that rewards nothing #because their teachers effectively set it up to be just that #an effective literary analysis curriculum should involve modeling and repeated practice with frequent feedback #but i feel like so many english teachers when we were growing up just focused on lecture and then assessment #leaving a massive gap between what skills students come in with and what's expected of them #not only that but also i feel like the lack of relevance in literary content has a lot to do with it #i didn't especially enjoy proper literary analysis until i had a choice in what to analyze #and had consistent scaffolding to support the direction i wanted to go #i didn't write 23+ pages on kafka because it was a requirement--i wrote it because my professor got me invested in it and provided support #i think that's an issue with a lot of areas in education #thankfully it's changing (however slowly) but god. death to the lecture -> assessment model of instruction