2.3 Emily Dickinson's "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"

If you enjoy thinking, learning, and hearing about the nuts and bolts of classroom practice, this one's for you!

In today's episode, I talk about three methods / exercises / approaches I've used to teach Emily Dickinson's poem "A narrow Fellow in the Grass." And I get downright detailed, y'all: close-reading, concept-mapping, riddle poems, assembling textual evidence, and practicing poem annotation. And: hear my breadmaker bangin' up a storm in the background -- whoops!
 
Listen in and let me know how *you* teach, or read, this poem. I'm curious to know!

• Emily Dickinson's "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
• English 1G03: Emily Dickinson With Magda Zapędowska and Eugenia Zurowski
• Bill Bartley's faculty page
• Niigaan Sinclair's Twitter / faculty page
• I Pass the Talking Stick to You: Sharing, Reading, Teaching Residential School Stories conference
• For more on how the frames we bring into our teaching influence the learning that happens there, see Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom (eds. Ada Jaarsma and Kit Dobson), and especially the essay by soon-to-be podcast guest Namrata Mitra, whose contribution opens with a question similar to the point made by Niigaan Sinclair: "What is at stake in the first text you assign in an English literature course?" (103).
• Episode pic is of my own damn undergrad paper, in which I correctly spelled Dickinson's last name exactly 0 times. Growth!

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