Being that I have recently begun student teaching in a sixth grade language arts classroom, I was excited to read what Janet Alsup and Jonathan Bush had to say about secondary literature and reading pedagogy. Yesterday my mentor teacher incorporated modeling of reading comprehension processes into her classroom, and today the students participated in literature circles. […]
Entries from October 2006
Using Literature Circles and Comprehension Modeling in the Middle School Language Arts Classroom
October 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment
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Incorporating Marxist and Feminist Literary Lenses in the Secondary English Classroom
October 4th, 2006 · 1 Comment
As I have stated previously, I am a strong believer that literary theories such as Reader Response, Marxism, and Feminism should be taught in tandom in the secondary English classroom. However, since Marxism and Feminism are so closely related in many ways I think that each of these theories becomes stronger and more relevant when […]
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