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Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools

Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools . Dr. Buchanan ENG 499 Fall 2012. Teaching Literature. What is literature? Why teach literature? Who we teach? How to teach literature? Student centered Lead students through task-oriented interactions Engage students in challenging tasks

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Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools

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  1. Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools Dr. Buchanan ENG 499 Fall 2012

  2. Teaching Literature • What is literature? • Why teach literature? • Who we teach? • How to teach literature? • Student centered • Lead students through task-oriented interactions • Engage students in challenging tasks • Scaffold to support construction • Move from “near to home” to “far from home” • Individual, Small Group, Large Group

  3. Instructional Sequence • Before teaching: Set Goals • Before reading: Frontload activities • Beginning to read: Set purpose • During reading: Guide students’ reading • After reading: Reflect on experience • Follow up: Extend understanding beyond text

  4. Three Phases of Teaching Literature • Enter (Frontload) • Explore • Expand

  5. Enter • Gateway Activities • Freewriting • Think-Pair-Share • Interviews • Minilectures • Booktalks

  6. Enter • K-W-L • Quick Writes • Tea Party • Opinionnaries • Scenarios • Role Play

  7. Explore • Reader Response • Interpretive Community • Formal analysis • Critical Synthesis

  8. Reader Response • Personal Triggers • Suppositional Readers • Conceptual Readiness • Synergistic Texts • Associative Recollections • Collaborative Authors • Imagine This

  9. Reader Response • Character Continuum • Character Maps • Focal Judgments • Opinion Survey • Interrogative Reading • Jump Starts • Title Testing

  10. Interpretive Community • Think Aloud • Jump-In Reading • Communal Judgment • Defining Vignettes • Readers’ Theater • Assaying Characters • Psychological Profiles • Venn Diagramming

  11. Formal Analysis • Formal Discussion Questions • Literary Rules of Notice • Intertextuality • Students Write • Authors Speak • Teachers Read

  12. Critical Synthesis • Moral/Philosophical • Historical/Biographical • Formalist/New Critical • Rhetorical. • Freudian • Archetypical

  13. Critical Sythesis • Feminist • Marxist • Deconstructionist • Reader Response • New Historical • Post-Colonial Criticism • Queer Theory or Gender Theory

  14. Classroom strategies to explore theory • Small Group Questions • Jigsaw Groups • Role Playing • Counter Questions • Battle of the Book Critiques

  15. Discussion Questions • Engage students in creating questions • Connect book to lives • Volunteer contribution • Engage everyone

  16. QARs (Question-Answer Relationships) (Raphael, 1982) • Text-Based Questions • Right There Questions • Think and Search Questions (inference) • In My Head Questions • Author and Me (not in the story, life experience) • On My Own (don’t need to read book)

  17. Question Levels (Hillocks, 1980) • Level 1: Basic Stated Information • Level 2: Key Details • Level 3: Stated Relationships • Level 4: Simple Implied Relationships • Level 5: Complex Implied Relationships • Level 6: Author’s Generalizations • Level 7: Structural Generalizations

  18. Questioning Circles

  19. Rules for Questioning • Consider purpose and choose questions accordingly • Involve as many students as possible • Ask follow-up questions • Allow for wait time • Listen to all answers, not just the ones you are expecting • Teach students to ask their own questions

  20. Teaching Discussion • Silent Discussions • Three Index-Card Discussion • Listen and Follow Up • Student Created Questions

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