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Another problem she mentioned was a lack of feedback for the students. “They don’t haV$ any grades yet. They would like to have more grade feedback,” she said. Another problem comes because the television teacher can’t get feedback from the students. “When the students get bored or antsy, she can’t see that. I feel like a real barker in there sometimes,” she added.
The other class brought to Rappahannock via the electronic classroom is Advanced Placement English. This class is a combination of great works of Western Civilization, survey of English literature such as students would get in academic senior English, and a college freshman composition course.
The first week was spent in going over writing a paper using the “keyhole” method. The students were to write papers of five paragraphs with five sentences in each paragraph. The first paragraph would narrow down to a thesis statement, which the bqlk of the paper was supposed to prove. The next three paragraphs would support the thesis giving examples and pros and cons, and the final paragraph would begin with a restatement of the thesis, using other wording and continue with generalizations from that thesis.
By the end of the first week students were expected to read “Oedipus Rex” and to turn in autobiographies.
The second week started off with a bang when the teacher, Ms Gibson, announced that by Friday they should turn in a paper using the keyhole method that would “reflect your understanding of ‘Oedipus Rex’” and answer the question: “The search for personal identity and integration of personality is an important theme in ‘Oedipus Rex.’ Is the search to ‘Know Thyself essential to human dignity, or is it merely worthwhile, or is the cost too great?” .
Ms Gibson then proceeded to use the rest of the week to talk, not about “Oedipus Rex,” except tangentially, but- about Jungian archetypes, the notion put forth by psychiatrist Carl Jung, that certain ideas are part of the “collective unconscious” of mankind. The students spent the week taking notes on the symbolism of colors and numbers, the yin yang, or union of opposites, hero sagas, the tree, the garden, the serpent, the good mother, the wicked mother and the soul mate, while trying to write their papers.
By the beginning of the next week the students were supposed to read “Beowulf,” and the teacher started lecturing on “Oedipus Rex,” including introducing all the Greek mythology that is part of the background of the play.
The six students in the class were told to go ahead and read selections from “The Canterbury Tales” from their literature book, and they were wondering whether to read that yet, in which case they would probably have to reread it when the teacher finally started lecturing on it, or to take the chance that she would throw a pop quiz at them if they waited to read it until she was ready to start talking about it.
During this six-weeks period the course is also supposed to cover
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