Prose and Context

The LCA English department shares their reflections and thoughts on a season of podcasting and creating Prose and Context.

Rebecca Lefroy invites a few of her students to discuss their experiences with a student-centered, activity-based unit intended to equip middle school students with an interest in and understanding of journalism.

Karen Elliott discusses how she sees Kate Chopin's novel "The Awakening" connecting with our and students' modern day faith lives.

LCA's librarian Molly MacDougald celebrates National Library Week by interviewing a teenage librarian at our local library and exploding some of the awesome free resources available to our students!

Danah Hashem discusses an alternative to the traditional rubric that allows more personalized feedback and deemphasizes the numerical grade.

Renée LaRoche discusses some of her strategies for creating her classroom environment in ways that encourage and develop her students.

Rebecca Lefroy discusses how to teach students about setting using Shakespeare's play; in this episode she uses his play "Othello" as an example.

In this episode, Danah Hashem gives some of the reasons why the LCA English faculty believes this podcast has been a meaningful and important part of our professional development and identities as teachers of writing.

Karen Elliott discusses one of her favorite novels, "Gone With the Wind," and how its use in the classroom can be particularly relevant to our students daily, social, political, and faith lives.

Danah Hashem discusses strategies and classroom policies that encourage students resist the temptation to fixate on grades and to focus on learning as a process and scholarly endeavor.