Roundtable: Some Effective Approaches to Teaching and Analyzing Poetry
Organizer: Robert J. Bickner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
March 25-28, 2010
Philadelphia Marrott Downtown
Discussants: Bac Hoai Tran, UC Berkeley, USA; Carol J. Compton, University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA; Thomas John Hudak, Arizona State University, USA; Mariam B. Lam, UC Riverside, USA
This roundtable will explore some effective approaches to teaching and analyzing poetry in Southeast Asian poetry in the classroom. In general, poetry can be introduced to students at all levels and in various forms that may include metered poems, free verse, poetic prose, proverbs, and folk verses. Participants in this roundtable will discuss some of their text choices for their classes, the rationale behind these decisions, as well as the methods and strategies they employ when introducing their students to SEA poetry and helping them to interpret it adequately. The poems selected and examined at this roundtable are Vietnamese, Lao, and Thai.
(More information HERE.)
Organizer: Robert J. Bickner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
March 25-28, 2010
Philadelphia Marrott Downtown
Discussants: Bac Hoai Tran, UC Berkeley, USA; Carol J. Compton, University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA; Thomas John Hudak, Arizona State University, USA; Mariam B. Lam, UC Riverside, USA
This roundtable will explore some effective approaches to teaching and analyzing poetry in Southeast Asian poetry in the classroom. In general, poetry can be introduced to students at all levels and in various forms that may include metered poems, free verse, poetic prose, proverbs, and folk verses. Participants in this roundtable will discuss some of their text choices for their classes, the rationale behind these decisions, as well as the methods and strategies they employ when introducing their students to SEA poetry and helping them to interpret it adequately. The poems selected and examined at this roundtable are Vietnamese, Lao, and Thai.
(More information HERE.)
