Thursday, September 27, 2007
Appleman Chapter 1
The book starts off similarly to the way that Be the Book started, a little repetitive and the focus of it was convincing the reader that the authors purpose is an important one. This book was a little more interesting because Appleman starts off by making some really interesting observations about how teaching has been working lately. I definitely agree that it's a little blind for teachers to only teach through reader response, because there's something to be said about teaching students how to really read the text and get meaning out of it. I'm still a bit skeptical at this point about how helpful actually explicitly teaching literary theories is to high school students.
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Yes I agree with this as well. Students need to dabble in these other theories to avoid limiting their interpretive capacities. If they aren't explicity instructed on literary theory, then how will they know which 'lens' they are looking through? It seems as though if we are asking students to acknowledge different ways of reading texts, students should be made aware of the theories they are using. Down with implicit, up with explicit!
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