Comparative Literature

This is an activity for Lioudmila Zaitseva's Elementary Russian class. She goes through a floor plan illustration on the board and calls on volunteers to label the parts, then place a corresponding image in the specific zone of the plan. This is a fun way...

In her classes, Professor Judith Ryan uses (or encourages her TFs to use) little strips of paper with words from a literary text in order to get students to explore the functions of individual words in text. This activity words as follows: the instructor...

In her classes, Professor Judith Ryan uses colored index cards to initiate discussions. Usually, this occurs after the class has already talked a bit about literary texts or other kinds of cultural materials. Judith hands out the cards and asks the...