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NECAC Lesson Demonstration

NECAC Lesson Demonstration. How much of you Is in What you read?. Resources. Maureen Bakis English Teacher, Grade 12 www.graphicnovelsandhighschoolenglish.com. Influences. Louise Rosenblatt’s Literature as Exploration (1995) Transactional Theory and Reader Response

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NECAC Lesson Demonstration

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  1. NECAC Lesson Demonstration How much of you Is in What you read?

  2. Resources Maureen Bakis English Teacher, Grade 12 www.graphicnovelsandhighschoolenglish.com

  3. Influences • Louise Rosenblatt’s Literature as Exploration (1995) • Transactional Theory and Reader Response • Sheridan Blau’sThe Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their Readers (2003) • Reading as recursive process • Avoiding “one right answer” approach to reading • Traits of competent readers

  4. Lesson Goals • Allow students an authentic, independent response to reading • Encourage students to explore or experience a text and to consider its possibilities, rather than reading only to find answers for a test, guess what the teacher is thinking, or give the perceived “correct” interpretation. (Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry”)

  5. Through metacognition, realize the participatory nature of reading (especially of images in sequential narrative or comics) Recognize the role of prior knowledge and experience in interpreting text/image Realize reading is a recursive process, like writing!

  6. Foster metacognitive awareness Defend one’s interpretation using textual analysis and evidence Make and understand inferences Critically evaluate assumptions and preconceived notions Realize “closure” and its implications

  7. Realize the social nature of meaning-making Discover multiple perspectives Participate in respectful, informed discussion Create classroom environment of trial and error

  8. Lesson in Context • Early in course to create democratic environment and to establish my role as facilitator rather than “keeper of the answers” • Mantra: Don’t tell me what you think I want to hear. Tell me what YOU think!” • Learning to read images • Introduction to comics medium • Foster trial & error, tolerance, and collaboration

  9. Student Reactions Angry Empowered Appreciative

  10. The Lesson Chapter 1 excerpt (The Arrival by Shaun Tan) Read the sequential art narrative once Respond in writing (journal prompts) Re-read and add words to the story Share interpretations Discuss the variety of interpretations Describe and defend interpretations Examine pages and panels

  11. Q & A How did you reach your interpretation? What mental processes did you use to construct the story out of the sequential images? What colors or influences your understanding of the text? Which aspects of the text are indisputable? What inferences did you make? What assumptions did you make and what are they based on? Can a text mean anything? (a spectrum of interpretation)

  12. Other Lesson Ideas Mike Gianfrancesco’s “O.I.A.” lesson using Will Eisner’s Life in the Big City Museum Curator lesson Writing application Poetry analysis (possibilities/playing with sequence and juxtaposition) Student “critics” exercise (quoting one another as authoritative source and entering into scholarly dialogue)

  13. Applications Reading across curriculum Personal relationships Data analysis i.e. political polls, experiments; Law Understanding (and questioning) stereotypes

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