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Learning to Enjoy Literature : How Teachers Can Model and Motivate.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCann, Thomas M., author.
- Knapp, John V., 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English teachers--Training of--United States.
- English teachers.
- Literature--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
- Literature.
- Teachers--Training of--United States.
- Teachers.
- Teaching--United States.
- Teaching.
- English teachers--Training of.
- Literature--Study and teaching (Secondary).
- Teachers--Training of.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
- Summary:
- This book offers teachers productive approaches to treating textual interpretation not as an effort to reach a single right view or answer, but rather as a collaborative activity involving lively discussion of texts drawn from a variety of media.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Don't Go There
- What It Isn't
- An Alternative View
- A Sequence for Literature Study in High School
- Chapter 2: Why Do We Have to Read This?
- Literature as Entertainment
- Literature Study as the Building of Reading Skills
- Literature as Empathic Experience
- Literature as Exploration and Learning
- Literature Study as Inquiry
- Literature as All of the Above
- Your View
- Chapter 3: Preparing for the Literature Experience
- Some Do's and Don't's
- Features of a Useful Pre-reading Activity
- Purpose-driven Design
- What Is Justice?
- Fairness Scenarios
- Case Study: "Reclamation and Renewal"
- What Does the Speaker Really Mean?
- Design Principles
- Principles of Design for Pre-reading Activities
- Chapter 4: Noticing and Making Meaning
- Getting Started
- Small Group Dialogue
- Ms. Jeffries' Class's Rules of Notice
- Ms. Jeffries' Class's Rules of Signification
- Chapter 5: Modeling, Sharing, and Practicing
- You Have to Show Them
- Modeling from the Beginning
- Can We Get Technical in Talking about Literature?
- From Simple to Complex
- Chapter 6: Seeing Patterns and Structures and Making Complex Inferences
- Build Your Own Movie Treatment
- Ezzat's Roman Connection
- Of Arms and the Wall (Hollis May)
- Chapter 7: Considering Competing Critical Views
- Four Pre-reading Prompts for The Giving Tree
- Who Is Right?
- Four Views of Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"
- Sample "Postcards" from the Island of Sycorax
- A Storm of Resistance
- Chapter 8: Responding to Literature
- Some Rudiments of Discussions of Literature
- Dialogue, Illustrated.
- Fostering Written Responses to Literature
- Predictable vs. Provocative
- Informal Responses and the Futility of Quizzes
- Chapter 9: Expanding Conceptions of Literary Texts
- Graphic Novels and a Literary Reading of Home after Dark
- Types of Characters: Synthetic, Thematic, and Mimetic
- From Shakespeare to Graphic Fiction: Small's Home after Dark
- Noticing Characters' Functions and Dimensions
- Narrative Continuity and Narrative Gaps via the Gutter
- Character Motives
- A New Life for Russell and Mike
- Planting and Payoff with New Friends
- Continued Growing, Learning with Friends True and False
- What Does a Parentless Child Do?
- The Denouement
- Appendix: Gary Soto's "Like Mexicans"
- References
- Index
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40339-5
- 1-4758-6023-4
- OCLC:
- 1256258203
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