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Making the Classics Come Alive!

Making the Classics Come Alive!. What do you do with the classics?. Get rid of them completely Continue dragging students through them OR… MAKE THEM COME ALIVE with strategies that WORK!. How to Make the Classics Come Alive:. Dramatize Scaffold Pair with young adult (YA) texts.

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Making the Classics Come Alive!

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  1. Making the Classics Come Alive!

  2. What do you do with the classics? • Get rid of them completely • Continue dragging students through them • OR… MAKE THEM COME ALIVE with strategies that WORK!

  3. How to Make the Classics Come Alive: • Dramatize • Scaffold • Pair with young adult (YA) texts

  4. Dramatization Why it works: • “social and student-centered process” • “active methods allow students to have some ownership in generating meanings and understandings” Baxter 120

  5. Dramatization Ideas • Hot-seating (ask questions of the main character in a role-play) • Tableau Variations (highlighting characterization, character relationships, plot development) • Role-Breaking (role-playing the parts of minor characters, focusing on cultural and historical contexts by reversing them)

  6. Scaffolding Methods Why it works: • “The language of the classics frequently intimidates today’s students and generates negative attitudes and immediate resistance” • “Insufficient knowledge also impedes students’ ability to resonate with the classics” Shelley 387

  7. Scaffolding Methods • Building Background Knowledge • Developing Vocabulary • Facilitating the Reading of the Text • Enrichment and Extension

  8. Pairing with Y.A. Texts Why it works: • The “richness [is] clearer to students as they read the companion novel and [make] connections for themselves” • “They can then discuss the many thematic bonds between the two novels, as well as the contrasts in narrative voice” Abair 83

  9. How to Pair with Y.A. Texts • Select a y.a. lit text that relates in theme or character to a classic novel • Read the y.a. lit novel first, then the classic novel • Compare and contrast the many thematic bonds between the two novels, as well as the narrative voice

  10. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Beloved – Toni Morrison A proud woman and her child are isolated from the surrounding community for transgressions committed years earlier “Self-Reliance” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (sections on excellence) - Pirsig A Few Suggested Pairings

  11. Into Thin Air, Into The Wild Jon Krakauer A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean Stephen King Sandra Cisneros Chris Crutcher Lois Lowery Martha Brooks True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (2003) Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light (2003) Angela Johnson First Part Last (2003) Richard Peck The River Between Us (2003) Jane Yolen Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur (2003) More Suggested Texts and Authors

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