
Title
The Trial of Margot Macomber: A Classroom Exercise in Fact-Finding and Literary Analysis
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Conducts a mock trial to determine Margot’s guilt in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Concludes that in the process of learning how to cross-examine a text, students learn how to correctly gather and evaluate material, thus honing their analytical reading and critical thinking skills.
Published in
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Volume
25
Issue
2
Date
1998
Pages
159-160
COinS
Citation
Diguette, Richard. “The Trial of Margot Macomber: A Classroom Exercise in Fact-Finding and Literary Analysis.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 25, no. 2 (1998): 159-60.