Teaching “Birdsong”

Getting students invested in 19th-century literature can be tough, but we want to make it easier for both you and them!

Get Involved

We welcome teachers and instructors of all levels to connect with us starting Summer 2025 and share how they have incorporated birdsong into their teaching of writing and literature.

Please contact us at kacie.wills@hancockcollege.edu if you'd like to share teaching materials, including assignments, syllabi, readings, or student work.

Over the course of 2025-2026, this portal will be populated with more and more pedagogy resources. Visit our teaching portal from Commonplacing 2023-25 as an example of the kinds of work we've assembled!

Recited Verse

Recited Verse allows students to read aloud, practice, and recite lines from their favorite Romantic-era poems or other passages. Students may also wish to translate key passage to different languages and record them, making those lines their own. Other students can respond to these audio files. We are excited to hear lines of poetry and key passages spoken from different geographical locations, in different languages, accents, interpretations, and voices – breathing in new life to familiar or otherwise overlooked lines. These new entries will change what Romantic poetry sounds like to us and our students.

COVE

An open-access platform with tools for "flipped classroom" student projects and class anthologies, as well as peer-reviewed materials. COVE allows multiple students in a class or community to collectively annotate key texts.