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Inviting Twenty-First Century Students to the Eighteenth-Century Party
| Content Provider | Paperity |
|---|---|
| Author | Hansen, Kathryn Strong |
| Abstract | This article describes a classroom activity that increases students’ connection to literary characters, and by extension, texts. The activity, constructed as a party attended by literary characters, tasks students with taking on the point of view of one character in an assigned novel. This can encourage a student to see the viewpoint of a character that differs from him or her in gender, social status, or any other category of difference. In heightening students’ relationship to eighteenth-century characters, I argue, instructors can bring the eighteenth century closer to contemporary students as well as increase students’ sensitivity to viewpoints that differ from their own. A post-activity writing assignment extends the activity to encourage student analysis and reflection. |
| File Format | HTM / HTML |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Journal | ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830 |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| e-ISSN | 21577129 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Aphra Behn Society |
| Publisher Date | 2013-04-04 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
