rejuvenate their spirits. "Every semester I've taken the students outside to play, and I call it 'Play Day,'" Bane said. "I tell them that they can play anything not involving technology. It has to be a kid's game, like 'Tag' or 'Ring Around the Rosey.' It has to be something that will get them active and engaged like they were when they were kids and they didn't care about all of the weight of the world." Bane said many students viewed English courses as required classes to graduate, but he wanted to prove they could be fun and entertaining, too. "It's doing something that's not just showing up, sitting down and passively listening, but going to these events or participating in class in a way that's active," Keck said. Dr. Russell Keck, assistantprofesso1· of English . helps graduate student .JP Baker in p1"eparntion for a "Class Outside the Box·· activity on Nov. I I. The world literature class often participated in nontraditional activities, addiny an interactive dimension to leurning. I Photo by Kazu Pujisowa Sop!wmore Darci F/utley and seniors Jessicu Duren uncl Cole Lockwood laugh as their clussmales acl oul scenes from Renaissance revenge trayedy ""The !)uchess of Ma(fi"" on Nov. 19. Acting out these scenes was one of muny aclivilies Keck used to leuch his students in a dijj'er<'nt wuy. I Photo by Kazu Fujisawa E ~ G LI S 11 , F O H E I (; ~ L . \ ~ (; l'. \ G E , II I S T O H \' B :t
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