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whentherewerebicycles · 6 years ago

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ughhh fuuuuuck I’m starting two new units tomorrow and I don’t have a solid lesson plan or really even a sense of what’s going to happen in either unit FUUUUCK

#im tired!!!!!!!#my brain is tired from like trying to speed-learn about the last 20 years of immigration politics in the uk #i’m not a contemporary brit lit person i’m a first half of the 20th c girl #and wtf do i even know about the UK!! every day I wait to be unmasked #amazingly it’s possible to get a phd in british literature but still have a shockingly hazy grasp on the country’s history and politics #ok need to not panic #i definitely know more than they do or at least i have a better grasp on what i don’t know than they do #i think i am going to have them do a little group activity tomorrow where they’re in 7 groups of 5 #and each group is responsible for reading a diff short excerpt from a british source that has to do with immigration or multiculturalism #or various other loosely clustered topics #addressed to british audiences #and like ALL i want them to do for tomorrow #is not even read for understanding just yet like i just want them to go through and compile a list of #terms and historical allusions and names and political parties and events etc #that we can start looking up/researching and mapping out together #like they will think the point of the lesson is to unlock and memorize the meaning of the texts or whatever & theyll panic #but literally all i want them to get in this first activity #is like a sense that the british cultural landscape and conversation around race and immigration is very diff than the US’s even if there #are some common themes #im just trying to prevent them from mapping american conceptions of immigration and national identity wholesale onto the british context #i have to also just accept that we are going to barely have time to skim the surface and that’s okay #they do not need to know everything or even all that much in this context #esp since this is the first contemporary brit course they’ve taken #they just need enough context that they can start noticing things in the novels they’re reading #(I AM NOT QUALIFIED) (THAT’S OK THOUGH I CAN BUILD THAT INTO THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE)

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