[Milton-L] Making Milton Matter To . . .

[Diane McColley]

I love this statement.  Also I have found Milton engaging students by 
promoting discussions of his poems, if  the class is small enough, not 
by posing questions but by passing around 3 x 5 cards on which each 
student asks a question about  a particular line or verse-paragraph, 
giving line numbers; then sorting the cards by line numbers and reading 
them aloud. The variety of responses  students come up with to each 
other's questions or observations lead to engagement and convince 
students of the richness of  the text.

On Sep 22, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Gregory Machacek wrote:

> All of the other disciplines are -ologies; they talk about things.  We
> philologists (and the philosophers) love something.  What we have 
> loved,
> others will love, and we will teach them how.  And we will teach them 
> how
> precisely *by* loving.