4/13/20101SED 525ENWeek 12Week 12Agendaz Make-up Lesson Plans duez Literature Instructionz Bear CountryAesthetic and Efferent ReadingzAesthetic and Efferent Readingz Response and Analysisz Literature Circlesz Unit Planz Peer Response to Unit Introduction and Unit Planning Overviewz Unit Plan QuestionsLiterature Instructionz WHAT DO WE TEACH?Reading Literature oror Experiencing Literature?What SHOULD we teach?“You Are in Bear Country”A Reading Experiencez Keep pages upside down until instructed otherwise.z NO talking, please!z Read and mark the text; make notes in whatever ways you like.z When you hear my signal, look up for further instructions.A Reading ExperienceTurn the page. WITHOUT LOOKING BACK AT THE TEXT, take a few minutes to write in response to your reading. Jot down things you noticed and questions you havenoticed and questions you have.4/13/20102A Reading ExperienceForm groups of four—two from group A and two from group BWITHOUT LOOKING BACK AT THE TEXTWITHOUT LOOKING BACK AT THE TEXT,use your response writing to discuss the text. Talk about things you noticed and try to answer any questions you may have about the reading. A Reading ExperienceTake a moment or two and, in your reflective journal, jot down what you have learned as a reader from this experience. What have you learned about making meaning from texts?learned about making meaning from texts?Louise Rosenblattz Efferent Reading: reading for informationzAesthetic Reading:zAesthetic Reading: experiencing the textThe Reader, The Text, The Poem: A Transactional Theory of the Literary Work. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1978. 22-47Efferent Reading“…the reader's attention is primarily focused on what will remain as a residue after the reading—the information to be acquired theinformation to be acquired, the logical solution to a problem, the actions to be carried out” (23). Aesthetic Reading"In aesthetic reading, the reader's attention is centered directly on what he is living through during his relationship with that particular text”relationship with that particular text (25). Louise Rosenblattz “Aesthetic” and “efferent” are NOT black and white categories. Genres form a continuum; within texts readers’stances shuttletexts, readers stances shuttle back and forth.z Text FORM (or GENRE) signals a text-appropriate stance for skilled readers.4/13/20103Reader Response TheoryzLiterature is a performative art;zEach reading is a performance, analogous to playing/singing a musical work, enacting a drama, ,g ,etc.;z Literature exists only when it is read;zMeaning is an event.Reader Response TheoryThe literary text possesses no fixed and final meaning or value; there is no one "correct" meaning. Literary meaning and value are "transactional," "dialogic," created by the interaction of the reader and the text. According to Louise Rosenblatt, a poem is "what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text" (“Toward a Transactional Theory of Reading,” 1969).Robert Probst: Response and AnalysisRobert Probstz Response and Analysisz We begin with the reader and examine his or her responses to the text.z We then return to the text and the reading and analyze what generated those responses.Using Confusionz “Confusion frequently represents an advanced state of understanding. As teachers, our job is to promote confusion.”z Sheridan Blau The Literature WorkshopResponse, Analysis, ReflectionRESPONSE, ANALYSIS, and REFLECTION are key moves in our appreciation of literature We canliterature. We can productively envision them as aspects of a process that is potentially infinite in scope.4/13/20104Response, Analysis, and ReflectionzResponse-Our initial feelings and envisionmentsdeveloped with a text.zAnalysis-Posing and answering questions about a text (how does the text evoke the response it does? How is the text effective?)zReflection-Thinking about our reading processes helps us become more skilled readers.A Constructivist ParadigmMeaning does not exist in a text READY MADE, but exists in the relationship between a reader and a text. Making meaning is a process engaged in by readers as they CONSTRUCTengaged in by readers as they CONSTRUCT their understandings of a text.Effective Literature Instruction Focuses on:z Deepening responses.z Teaching “noticing” and “questioning.”z Teaching how texts work.z Aesthetic pleasure!LITERATURE CIRCLESRobert Scholes“Our job is not to intimidate students with our own superior textual production [but] to encourage their own textual i”(245)23practice” (24-5).Textual Power: Literary Theoryand the Teaching of English.New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.Literature Circles| If you did NOT read “The Stone Boy,” if you do not have a copy of the text with you in class, OR if you did not prepare your literature circle role put your exit time next24circle role, put your exit time next to your initials on the sign-in sheet.| Please leave.4/13/20105Literature Circles 6:00| All Discussion Directors rise and move to different locations in the room.| Passage Masters stand and each join a different Discussion Director25join a different Discussion Director.| Ditto Connectors.| Ditto Illustrators.| Ditto Graphic Designers.| YOU HAVE 3O MINUTES FOR YOUR LITERATURE CIRCLES.Literature Circles and Response, Analysis, Reflection| What does this experience teach you as a reader?| What does this experience teach you as a literature teacher?26as a literature teacher?| In your reflective journals, spend five minutes writing about ways in which you might incorporate response/analysis/reflection into a classroom.Response, Analysis, Reflection| What was your initial response to the story? What understandings did you have? What questions?27questions?| What happened to your responses as you prepared your role for the literature circle?| What happened to your responses as you discussed the story with your colleagues?A Constructivist ParadigmMeaning does not exist in a text READY MADE, but exists in the relationship between a reader and a text. Making ii dib28meaning is a process engaged in by readers as they CONSTRUCT their understandings of a text.Using Literature Circles29Encouraging Meaningful Access to Literary TextsWhat Are Literature Circles?{ According to Harvey Daniels, “Literature Circles are small, temporary discussion groups who have chosen to read the same 30have chosen to read the same story, poem, article, or book” (13).4/13/20106Why Use Literature