Workshop Descriptions
CASTE IN MODERN INDIAN HISTORY/LITERATURE
Designing an upper level course on India
Presenters: Tom Lamont, Patricia Lothrop
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This workshop is for teachers who teach or are contemplating teaching a course that focuses on modern Indian history, modern Indian literature, or both. The workshop will address the nuts and bolts of creating such a course including how to "sell" the idea, how to find resources, and how to design a course that works for your students and for you. Since Indian history and Indian literature are fairly new areas of study at the high school level, the presenters welcome all participants to share ideas and expertise.
Presenter Bios:
Tom Lamont, a teacher of modern Indian history at The Groton School, has taught a wide variety of history courses for the past 25 years. During his sabbatical last year, Tom taught at The Doon School, a 7-12 independent school 250 km northeast of Delhi. He is learning Hindi at Shishu Bharati, an Indian-American school, does not belong to a cricket club, likes Indian food, and cries during Bollywood movies.
Patricia Lothrop designed, and has taught for the past dozen years, a tenth-grade honors world literature course incorporating Ramayana and contemporary fiction from India. Last autumn she inaugurated a senior elective on fiction and film from the Asian “big four”: India, China, Japan and Korea. Patricia has taught literature at both university and secondary levels, the latter entirely at St. George’s School in Newport, RI, where she also teaches AP English Literature. Her reviews (mainly non-fiction/reference) appear regularly in School Library Journal. She holds an A.B. degree from Columbia (Barnard College), and a Ph.D. from Yale University.