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Is Literature Dead? By  David L. Ulin   August 27, 2018 ARTS & CULTURE WILLIAM MICHAEL HARNETT,  TO THIS FAVOUR , 1879 One evening not long ago, my fifteen-year-old son, Noah, told me that literature was dead. We were at the dinner table, discussing  The Great Gatsby , which he was reading for a ninth-grade humanities class. Part of the class structure involved annotation, which Noah detested; it kept pulling him out of the story to stop every few lines and make a note, mark a citation, to demonstrate that he’d been paying attention to what he read. “It would be so much easier if they’d let me  read  it,” he lamented, and listening to him, I couldn’t help but recall my own classroom experiences, the endless scansion of poetry, the sentence diagramming, the excavation of metaphor and form. I remembered reading, in junior high school,  Lord of the Flies —a novel Noah had read (and loved) at summer camp, writing to me in a Facebook message that it was “seriously

  Mar Theophilus Training College   Club Programs conducted in association with College Union EKAYANA 2019-2020   1.     Women's Cell 2019-2021 Co-ordinator : Dr. Giby Geevarghese President     : Veena S Pal Secretary     : Parvathy V. M   As a part of B.Ed curriculum 2019-21, different clubs were formed in our college. Women’s Cell was formed as a part of it. We conducted different programs in one year spreading through two semesters, and has reached the second academic year. Due to COVID 19 Pandemic most of our activities from April onwards is through Social Media Applications. Our activities in the first semester include Reksha 2020, A Programme on Self Defence, conducted by Women’s Cell in association with Kerala Police.       The program started at 2.00 p.m at College Auditorium. The inaugural function stated with a prayer. Ms. Soorya Suresh(then President, Women’s Cell) gave the Welcome Speech. Ms. Rosh

A curriculum breathes life into a school’s or teacher’s philosophy of education; it is purpose enacted.  Different philosophies of education – personal empowerment; cultural transmission; preparation for work or preparation for citizenship – place different emphasis on aspects of curriculum design.   Curriculum design involves seven key principles which operate in tension with each other. The following seven principles of curriculum design are taken from Dylan Wiliam’s (2013)  Principled Curriculum Design  booklet published by the SSAT (The Schools Network) Ltd.  The short “definitions” are my take on what Wiliam wrote. Too many people are currently rushing headlong into rewriting curriculum policies or schemes of learning without stepping back and having  the deep discussion that should be a precursor to curriculum development.    The alignment of a philosophy of education, curriculum design and enactment (pedagogy) should be the goal; not meeting an artificial one or two year t