ABSTRACT

The English classroom is an indispensable site to critically engage the social complexity of the climate crisis and COVID-19. A question comes up, however, about how to plan for such critical engagement when teaching canonical literature that is seemingly removed from the specific concerns of the current moment. The focus of this article is on planning with canonical works to meet the current moment. Using Macbeth as a focal text, I offer a seven-step heuristic for generating lesson plan ideas that critically engage the social complexity of the climate crisis and COVID-19. The heuristic is based on juxtaposition, defined as a literary interpretive stance that opens space for readers to make creative leaps between old texts and new contexts.

摘要

英语课堂是批判性地参与气候危机和 COVID-19 的社会复杂性的不可或缺的场所。然而，出现了一个问题，即在教授看似与当前特定关注点无关的经典文献时，如何规划这种批判性参与。本文的重点是规划规范作品以满足当前时刻。使用Macbeth作为焦点文本，我提供了一个七步启发式方法来生成课程计划想法，这些想法批判性地参与了气候危机和 COVID-19 的社会复杂性。启发式基于并置，被定义为一种文学解释立场，为读者在旧文本和新上下文之间进行创造性的跳跃打开空间。