Teacups in the Garden Blogger Shares Teaching the Classics Ideas

With a clever blog title such as Teacups in the Garden, it’s no surprise that this blogger takes a creative approach to teaching, including her implementation ideas for Adam Andrew’s Teaching the Classics seminar on teaching literature.

Here are a couple snippets from her blog:

After reading one of our books, I put a plot diagram on a whiteboard…isn’t that more fun than a worksheet? I like to use color markers for different points, perhaps green for setting, blue for rising action, red for climax and yellow for denouement. I talked the kids through the book, and jotted down answers on the correct parts of the diagram

After a few weeks, when this was internalized, we began discussing the literature book orally over lunch, which I like to call a Literature Club Cafe.

One day, I got so caught up in a favorite scene, that I made a scene, acting it out in the kitchen! The kids thought I had lost it, but I made a dramatic point! Isn’t that the fun of teaching?

What a fabulous way to enjoy lunch! I do hope many more will imitate this approach and discover the joy of Teaching the Classics in a delightful and delicious way.