Date of Award
5-2016
Culminating Project Type
Starred Paper
Degree Name
English: Teacher Education: M.S.
Department
English
College
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Glenn Davis
Second Advisor
Judith Dorn
Third Advisor
Hsueh-I Lo
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Monstrosity, Gender, Beowulf, Failure, AP English, Gifted Students
Abstract
N.p.
Recommended Citation
Harmer, Allison, "Haunted By Gender: Teaching Gender Performance through Monstrosity in the Beowulf Manuscript/The New F Words: The Importance of Failure and Frustration in AP English Classrooms" (2016). Culminating Projects in English. 55.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/engl_etds/55
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Comments/Acknowledgements
Haunted by Gender: Teaching Gender Performance through Monstrosity in the Beowulf Manuscript
This paper explores the ways in which gender and the correct performance of gender creates a thematic unity to the various texts published in the Beowulf manuscript. Using Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity, the manuscript as a whole can be viewed as an attempt on the part of the compiler to represent an idealized form of gender standards in an attempt to preserve traditional Anglo-Saxon community.
The New F Words: The Importance of Failure and Frustration in AP English Classrooms
This paper explores the ways in which failure and frustration can be used to promote positive performance in both AP Literature and AP Language classrooms. While, acknowledging the unique challenges confronting teachers teaching gifted students, the paper argues that failure and frustration can be--and should be--safely incorporated into AP classrooms in order to help students succeed and overcome the inevitable obstacles inherent in all learning.