Message from rstrong

[Anonymous]

Hi!

I particularly found the morning session and its discussion of film interesting. For my purposes as a History teacher, however, 'fabula' has to be more important than 'sjuzet'! No matter how artistic a film may be, in my classes we will be far more concerned with the bones of the story than with the camera angles, close ups, and cutting techniques.

Possibly because I have very little background in East Asian History, I felt a little overwhelmed by the afternoon session during which we discussed literature. From my perspective, a very simple chronological overview of the literary/historical periods and their key characteristics, accompanied by a close analysis of a few poems and discussion of how they illustrate the characteristics of each period (as well as differences from other periods) might have been more helpful. I did really enjoy the reading, but unfortunately I don't feel I have the information yet that would help me to make decisions about selection and presentation of a few works of literature to my students.

Overall, Professor Yeh is clearly extremely knowledgeable, and I am sure I will be returning to the resources and information he presented as I continue to develop my History classes.

- Becca