Introduction & Teaching Salinger
Tim Waters (timvstim@hotmail.com)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:33:21 -0800 (PST)
Hello. I'm Tim.
I just subscribed to this list, and I'm elated to find a Salinger forum as
good as this one appears to be. Thanks to the list owners.
The point of this e-mail: I'm an undergrad English student at UC Berkeley
and I'm preparing to teach a class on the works of JD Salinger next
semester(to other undergraduates at my university). It'll be a standard
3-hour-a-week class, discussion style, with about 30-40 students in it.
This will be my first time teaching and I want to be sure to do Salinger
justice, so I turn to you for help. Any suggestions on how I should teach
this class or prepare to do so, from the general to the painfully specific
(or esoteric) would be greatly appreciated.
I realize that saying "help me teach my class" is just a little vague, so
here's what I'm stacked up against: what order to teach his books in, how
much (if any) biographical info to include, how to find good secondary
resources, what assignments to give, etc. Like I said, *any* suggestions
will be appreciated, including just topics for discussion that you think
would be interesting.
Please forgive the following grasp at straws: if any of you fellow
subscribers attend UC Berkeley (hey, it could happen; it's a big school),
please contact me individually for more info on the de-cal course and the
possibility of attending or even co-teaching the class.
Thanks for your time, guys. I'm looking forward to being a part of this
list; please forgive any stupid newbie mistakes or etiquette errors.
--Tim
AOL/AIM screen name: tim vs tim
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