Appleman Chapter 2

Assuming that teaching literary theory is the right course for the majority of students, this chapter is really helpful and gives strategies for helping teachers teach literary theory. Out of the four primary strategies he gives, I think the most useful one is having the students write nursery rhymes from the perspective of different characters. My problem with some of these other strategies, and Applemen even brings this up herself, is that it's easy to confuse something like the Star Wars exercise with just a simple review of characters and archetypes. The big challenge is taking the students and making sure they're able to step out of that and see the bigger concept of theory. I also really like the fact that Appleman says that every now and then the best thing to do is to just not use any literary theory for a while, I like the fact that she suggests switching back and forth between using it and not using it.