Gothic+day


 * Gothic fiction day**

> > Groups will be announced.** > (Classroom)  || Station B: Gothic Ambience Adapted (Auditorium A) || > || 9-9.45 > || 10-10.45
 * 1) **8-8.45: Auditorium B: Introduction to Gothic Fiction**
 * 2) **9-10.45: Station work:
 * || Station A: Characteristics of Gothic Fiction
 * Group 1 || Group 2  ||
 * Group 2 || Group 1  ||
 * 1) **11-11.30: Continue PhotoStory/Podcast production or text work. Upload to ITSL.**
 * 2) **11.30: Auditorium A: Summing up. **

Having panicked about making our students read loads of literature during the remaining spring classes, Kristian and I landed on Gothic literature, having a certain passion for the genre ourselves. As usual we had a fairly detailed plan for the costumes we were going to wear, and rather a vague plan for the content. However, we finally came up with the following programme:


 * 1) Joint lecture on the characteristics of Gothic literature. Worked very well.
 * 2) Split classes between reading excerpts of Gothic literature and finding the beforementioned characteristics and making a podcast capturing the Gothic ambience.
 * 3) The remaining time was spent finishing the other tasks. The last 15 minutes we showed a Simpsons version of Poe's "The Raven"

Lessons learnt: again the tasks took too much time, and again we should've divided the time after the lecture only into two, thus giving the students more time. Joint lectures work well, but we could've rehearsed better – using cues and so on. However, the leaflet the students got was a success, this contained both the programme of the day, the texts they were to read and the tasks they were given. It was a awful lot of work though, maybe it would be a better idea to make some of this available digitally instead.