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Re: Confused
Posted by Really? I thought Swilley was very clear + on target! nfm on 7/21/08
On 7/21/08, Confused wrote:
> Sorry, but I didn't understand a word you said.
>
>
> On 7/21/08, L. Swilley wrote:
>>
>> If students can produce for themselves the important
>> factors in a work of literature, what need have we of
>> teachers?
>>
>> Let the teacher begin with a very short work, a very
>> short story or a poem - one that he himself finds
>> fascinating, with points that he thinks others should
>> appreciate; let him/her read this through with his class,
>> making sure that every word is understood. Let him then
>> begin asking questions of individual students to lead the
>> class to an understanding of the points he wants them to
>> see. (If the story is one to be read the night before by the
>> student, let the teacher give a "cranky" 5-minute quiz -
>> e.g., a matching test with 10 items on one side and 13 on
>> the other - to determine who has read the story carefully
>> and who has not.)
>>
>> There is no other way to approach and teach a work of
>> literature - unless the teacher is Dame Judy Dench or Sir
>> Lawrence Olivier and can make the work dramatically "live".
>>
>> Students do not teach one another in the classroom but by
>> being asked by a teacher (who knows what she wants the class
>> to learn) to respond to an answer given by a student who has
>> just answered a teacher's previous question, both the
>> previous question and the present one directing the class to
>> factors the teacher knows they all should know and
>> appreciate ("If you agree with what Sally has just said,
>> what should we think of ..... in the story? If you don't
>> agree, please tell us what in the story contradicts her
>> remark - then give us an answer to the question I just asked
>> her.")
>>
>> L. Swilley
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- Re: Lit. Circles--talk to me..., 7/15/08, by Chele/5/SoCal.
- Re: Try these links...more inside, 7/19/08, by cam.
- Re: Try these links...more inside, 7/21/08, by JGS.
- Re: Abandon literary circles , 7/21/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: Abandon literary circles , 7/21/08, by Confused.
- Re: Confused, 7/21/08, by Really? I thought Swilley was very clear + on target! nfm.
- Re: research points to the value of student based learning, 7/21/08, by cam.
- Re: research points to the value of student based learning, 7/21/08, by JGS.
- Re: Chele--Lit. Circles--talk to me..., 7/21/08, by Wanda.
- Re: Chele--Lit. Circles--talk to me... for Wanda, 7/21/08, by Chele/5/SoCal.
- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles, 7/24/08, by Laura.
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- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles - I'm not Laura, but... :D, 7/24/08, by Chele/5/SoCal.
- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles - Q for Laura, 7/25/08, by JGS.
- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles - Q for Laura, 7/25/08, by Laura.
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