A rubric was once the red lettering in a Missal that indicated what or how some part of a ritual was to be done. The term has migrated from the sacred to the educational, and we now find ourselves creating rubrics for many disciplines.
This paper wishes to examine one of those rubrics, one derived from the Classics and passed down through the Renaissance, for its applicability and importance in today’s world.
About the presenterMartha Oberle
Having spent some four decades teaching English Composition and Literature, I am now retired. I have publications in Year’s Work in Medievalism and in Discoveries, the online journal of the South Central Renaissance Conference, as well as 2015 article in Beyond Words, Crossing Borders in English Studies, published in Krakow. Areas of interest include Medieval Drama, Piers Plowman, Shakespeare, and American Literature. My degrees are in History and in English.