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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Using Being Caribou in Your Classroom?
UAS teachers, are you planning to use Being Caribou in your class this semester? Please help us jumpstart the conversation on this blog by commenting below about how you plan to use the text in your class. What do you hope students will like about it? What themes, topics, information, etc. do you hope the text will help you teach? What kinds of assignments are you building around the text? What concerns do you have about teaching the text? Thanks for your ideas!
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I'm teaching Being Caribou in two of my three classes, Environmental Film and Ecocriticism. These are both upper-division courses, so my approach will be pretty basic: let students bring their reflections of the book to class discussion. I may raise a few discussion questions of my own, but mainly I'll let students dictate conversation.
ReplyDeleteFor my environmental film class, however, it will be a great opportunity to compare mediums: we'll watch the film about the book as well, and be able to consider the respective value of each kind of "text."
For example, does the film capture anything that the book misses, and vice versa? Do they have the same purpose/aim/audience, or are they designed with different roles in mind? How do the two different narrations affect the tone and story? Is one more "political" than the other?
Looking forward to others' thoughts!
We're using Being Caribou in two of my composition classes. We're starting to read the text this coming week in English 110 in preparation for Elder in Residence and for the Evenings at Egan, and we'll be reading the text after the visits in English 092. I'll be asking students to visit the OCOB Facebook page and the associated websites. I'll ask them to look at -- and perhaps even contribute -- to the blog. It will be fun for students to meet the authors as well as Randall Tetlichi. I'm happy for this year's choice!
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