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Charlie Sweet

Instructional Innovation

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Full-Text Articles in Education

The Mini-Casebook--Easy As Pie, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2002

The Mini-Casebook--Easy As Pie, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Presents a casebook on the song "American Pie" that considers how to define the parameters of short narrative. Describes the creation of an end-of-term cumulative writing project that the authors have successfully employed for the last decade. Discusses how they put together a casebook that teaches the necessary research skills.


Drawing On Memory: A Technique For Making Short Fiction Come Alive, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2001

Drawing On Memory: A Technique For Making Short Fiction Come Alive, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Considers how to get today's schoolchild and college student to move from the words to the picture, then back again. Explores the teaching technique of having students draw what the piece of literature describes. Finds that drawing the visual image provides a much better chance of understanding a work's significance. Describes how to apply this idea with a homework assignment.