Teaching Textual Analysis with Textbooks
Review: Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax and Tone (2000) by Nancy Dean and This Means This This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics (2007) by Sean Hall Somewhere in Teaching as a Subversive Activity, its authors Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner write that, in teaching, there should be a five-year moratorium on the use of all textbooks. I can’t, now, remember the...