Michael McClellan on Student Response to His Curriculum Unit
At the 2017 Annual Conference opening session, “From National Seminars to Local Classrooms,” National Fellow Michael McClellan, a History Teacher at Castillero Middle School in San Jose, California, spoke about teaching his curriculum unit, “Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity,” which was written in the 2017 national Seminar, “Poetry and Public Life,” led by Paul H. Fry, Professor of English at Yale University. “The unit,” says McClellan, “will focus on how these authors of satires and encomia, who, while marginalized and trivialized by the literary co…