I think Appleman's book, Critical Encounters in High School English, is a tremendous and necessary book to use in this course. Without this text I do not think I would know as much as I do now about theory in the classroom. This is definitely a great resource for undergraduate students.
I like how we discussed the chapters in this book, although I wish we would have practiced using them more in the class session. This way it might have made us more comfortable going into teaching by having experience using them and implementing in specific activities. I think each chapter serves its own purpose. The deconstruction chapter is by far the most difficult chapter to discuss. Because of this I do not think a student should lead discussion on this chapter, but rather you as the instructor leading it instead.
I plan on keeping this book for reference for teaching. I think the classroom activities in the back of the book will be useful along with the chapters itself. The book is very reader friendly which allows the reader to find what they are looking for quickly.
Overall, this book was very useful and it gave me a good idea of literary theory. It will serve a great purpose if I forget what certain theories are or an idea of how to use them.
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