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Understanding Your Students as Readers ONE SIZE FITS ALL Understanding Your Students as Readers

Different Mental Processes; Different Kinds of Readers (based on Carl Jung’s personality theory) Sensing perception Intuitive perception Attends primarily to sensory data; collects data systematically; relies on rules and experience for collecting data Attends more to patterns & impressions than to “facts”; data collection method may seem haphazard; follows hunches

Different Mental Processes; Different Kinds of Readers (based on Carl Jung’s personality theory) Thinking judgment Feeling judgment Bases decisions on “objective” criteria Bases decisions on personal values

Mental File Systems (Sensing/Thinking) Model-Makers (Intuitive/Thinking) The mind works as a computer with an elaborate filing system. They want clean data, retrieved exactly as it was filed. They work best with unambiguous facts that fit into neat categories, and might sometimes oversimplify data to force it into neat categories. They approach things globally and objectively, using mental models or blueprints to organize ideas and stay oriented in daily life. Experiencing life before conceptualizing it might seem awkward to them. Relying on Experience (Sensing/Feeling) Oceanic Minds (Intuitive/Feeling) Everything is validated in personal, practical, daily life experience. They develop rules based on their experiences, then are guided by those rules—rules they know work, because they have been proven to work. They view everything as connected to everything else. The mind is like an ocean, with important data swimming near the surface; when no longer needed, they swim away. Recall works through association, sometimes retrieving the desired thing, but sometimes retrieving something else that works about as well. adapted from Gordon Lawrence, People Types & Tiger Stripes (CAPT, 1993)

For Intuitive Students: For Thinking Students: For Sensing Students: For Intuitive Students: Hands-on materials Careful, thorough coverage, with no skipping Knowing exactly what is expected Immediately using their skills Using memory for details Starting with the big picture Options to choose & to jump around according to insights/associations Tackling new skills Using language skills to learn For Thinking Students: For Feeling Students: Logical materials & activities Logically organized classrooms Interesting problems to analyze Freedom from emotional distractions Subject matter to care about Appreciation for the person, not just for the work produced Friendly classroom adapted from Gordon Lawrence, People Types & Tiger Stripes (CAPT, 1993)

Test it on your own pulses… Describe—in writing—the way you read a book. (Do you read the same way for work as for pleasure? Difficult material and easy material?) Be prepared to read your description aloud.

Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction / Problem Novel Character: “regular” people, often lower class Setting: difficult living situation Language: colloquial (often with profanity & bad grammar) Content: problems/challenges faced by teens Attitude: goal is to allow vicarious experience (rather than, say, to provide instruction in manners and morals) What place to these novels have in the classroom?

Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction / Problem Novel

Genre: Romanticism counterbalance to realism (happy endings) generally involves a quest/leaving home protagonist undergoes trials, but prevails extreme sufferings (nightmare quality) unlikely successes (happy daydream quality)

What is our responsibility with respect to what students read from the class or school library? How to we choose which books to TEACH to the whole class or to small groups?

Reality check: works you might be told to use… FDHS, 9th grade - Card: Ender’s Game - Dickens: Great Expectations - Dramer: Romiette and Julio - Finn: Breaking Point - Gibson: The Miracle Worker - Grimes: Bronx Masquerade - Hamilton: Mythology - Hickam: October Sky - Homer: The Odyssey - Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird - Lipsyte: The Contender - Philbrick Last Book in the Universe - Shakespear Romeo and Juliet - Spinelli: Stargirl - Steinbeck The Pearl - Townsend: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole FDHS, 10th grade - Anaya: Bless Me Ultima - Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 - DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk - Frank: Alas Babylon - Gaines: Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Guy: Friends - Hesse: Out of the Dust - Knowles: A Separate Peace - Lowry: The Giver - Myers: Monster - Potok: The Chosen - Rand: Anthem - Remarque: All Quiet on the western Front - Rose: Twelve Angry Men - Salinger: Catcher in the Rye - Shakespeare: Julius Caesar - Weisel: Night

Reality check: works you might be told to use… FDHS, 11th grade - Conroy: The Water is wide - Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby - Gaines: A Gathering of Old Men - Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun - Hawthrone: The Scarlet Letter - Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea - Lawrence/Lee: Inherit the Wind - Miller: The Crucible - Myers: Fallen Angels - Steinbeck Of Mice and Men - Twain: The Adventures - Cather: My Antonia - Crane: The Red Badge Of Courage - O’ Brien: The Things They Carried - Wharton: Ethan Frome - Williams: The Glass Menagerie FDHS, 12th grade - Benitez: A Place Where the Sea Remembers - Bronte: Wuthering Heights - Christie: And The There Were None - Doyle: The Hounds of the Baskerviles - Golding: Lord of the Flies - Orwell: 1984 - Shakespeare: Macbeth - Shelley: Frankenstein - Swift: Gulliver’s Travels - Uchida: The Picture Bride - Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Reality check: works you might be told to use… WAHS, 9th grade Animal Farm Cold Sassy Tree Cry, the Beloved Country Everyman (Honors Eng. I) Fahrenheit 451 The Good Earth (Honors Eng. I) Great Expectations Hard Times The Hobbit House on Mango Street Hunger of Memory (excerpts) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Illiad (Honors Eng. I) Much Ado About Nothing Narrative of Frederick Douglass Old Man and the Sea The Power and the Glory Pygmalion Romeo and Juliet Siddhartha (Honors Eng. I) The Tempest (Honors Eng. I) Utopia (Honors Eng. I) The Virginian The Water is Wide WAHS, 10th grade All Quiet on the Western Front Candide (Honors Eng. II) Cyrano De Bergiac Ethan Frome Fast Food Nation (excerpts) The Glass Menagerie Julius Caesar Long Walk to Freedom Lord of the Flies (Honors Eng. I) Midsummer Night’s Dream 1984 (Honors Eng. II) Night Of Mice and Men Portrait of a Lady Pride and Prejudice (Honors Eng. II) Return of the Native A Separate Peace Silas Marner The Stranger (Honors Eng. II) A Tale of Two Cities Things Fall Apart 12 Angry Men

Reality check: works you might be told to use… WAHS, 11th grade) Absalom, Absalom! The Adventures of Huck Finn The Crucible Death of a Salesman (AP Lit. also) For Whom the Bell Tolls The Fountainhead The Great Gatsby The House of Mirth O'Neill Plays A Raisin in the Sun The Red Badge of Courage The Scarlet Letter Sketchbook A Streetcar Named Desire The Sun Also Rises Their Eyes are Watching God Three Plays - Wilder Trifles in A Book of Plays WAHS, 12th grade Beowulf Canterbury Tales Don Quixote Dr. Faustus Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Epic of Gilgamesh (Honors Eng. I) Frankenstein (Honors Eng. II) Hamlet Heart of Darkness (Honors Eng. II) Hedda Gabler Ibsen Plays (Honors Eng. II) The Importance of Being Earnest Jane Eyre (Honors Eng. II) King Lear Les Miserables Macbeth Moll Flanders Murder in the Cathedral Oliver Twist One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Dystopian Novels

Dystopian Novels Spisak’s four necessary elements: “a setting so vividly and clearly described that it becomes almost a character in itself” “individuals or forces in charge who have a legitimate reason for being as they are” “protagonists who are shaped by their environment and situations” “a conclusion that reflects the almost always dire circumstances” (These characteristics could be useful measures by which to evaluate the quality of a work.)

Dystopian Novels Why do we teach “classic” dystopian novels? What standards do we meet? What goals do we have? How do we teach those novels? What activities do we do? What paper topics do we assign? How might YA novels compare, in terms of accomplishing the same goals or eliciting the same kinds of thinking and writing?

Teaching Unit Could be for… …whole-class novel …book club novel (due Nov 27) Could be for… …whole-class novel …book club novel …individual novel “Unit” simply refers to a coherent collection of lesson plans, generally over several days (or sometimes even weeks).

Last time, I asked, “Why do we teach literature to middle-school and high-school students?” Here’s what you said: to educate young minds about a variety of subjects to expose them to different cultures so they’ll know how to read to teach them about themselves to help them become better writers to foster a love of reading to give them experiences beyond their own community to teach them how to analyze and comprehend to entertain them to give them problem-solving skills to help them understand life lessons to improve vocabulary because we find truth through fiction

(What do I want students to “get”?) Unit Strategies/Activities Unit Goals (What do I want students to “get”?) Unit Strategies/Activities (What activities will help students reach the goals?) Unit Assessments (How can I tell how well students “get” the goals?) Goals: 1-to appreciate the beauty of Shakespeare’s language 2-to understand how literature can hold a mirror to life’s big issues 3-to evaluate current teenage decision-making processes Assessments: 1-translate passages from R&J into current language; write a conversation in iambic pentameter 2-identify various points of conflict in R&J; identify parallel conflicts in current times 3-identify, explain & analyze decision-making processes of various characters (R, J, Mercutio, Tybalt); evaluate those processes (in light of their outcomes); identify processes available to today’s teens Strategies: watch clips from various film/stage productions practice “translating” (& maybe paraphrasing) lines explain meter in general & iambic pentameter in particular storyboard the plot; two-minute R&J (for YouTube) lecture on decision-making processes; do some role playing and lots more…

1. Uses knowledge of students' language acquisition and development as a basis for designing appropriate learning activities that promote student learning 2. Uses knowledge of English grammar in teaching students both oral and written forms of the language 3. Engages students in activities that provide opportunities for demonstrating their skills in writing, speaking, and creating visual images for a variety of audiences and purposes 4. Engages students in meaningful discussions for the purposes of interpreting and evaluating ideas present through oral, written, and/or visual forms 5. Uses a wide variety of strategies to teach students to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts 6. Integrates interdisciplinary teaching strategies and materials into instruction of ELA content to further student learning 7. Uses a variety of approaches for teaching students how to construct meaning from texts and integrates learning opportunities into classroom experiences that promote composing and responding to such texts 8. Incorporates technology and print/non-print media into his or her own work and instruction 9. Engages students in critical analysis of different media and communication technologies 10. Uses major sources of research and theory related to English language arts to support his or her teaching decisions 11. Engages students in learning experiences that consistently emphasize varied uses and purposes for language in communication 12. Makes meaningful and creative connections between the ELA curriculum and developments in culture, society, and education 13. Designs, implements, and assesses instruction that engages all students in reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and thinking as interrelated dimensions of the learning experience in ELA 14. Engages students in activities that demonstrate the role of arts and humanities in learning

Looking Back: Reasons to teach lit Reasons to include YA lit Strategies for teaching lit (including YA lit) Book talks to become familiar with breadth of YA lit Looking Ahead: Book reviews for books 1-4 due next week Begin work on teaching unit w/lesson plan Continue book talks and book reviews Continue strategies for teaching lit