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Response & Analysis, Second Edition: Teaching Literature in Secondary School
Binding: Paperback
Author: Robert E. Probst
Manufacturer: Heinemann
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Average Rating: 3.5
Total Customer Reviews: 5
List Price: $38.75
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Sales Rank: 775346
Product Description
In this fully updated second edition of Response and Analysis, Robert Probst leads you to fresh methods that build lifelong lovers of reading by opening your literature classroom to the power of student-driven interpretation and analysis. The second edition is chocked full of everything you need to plan and build a curriculum that initiates interpretative and critical conversations with and among your students while exposing them to a variety of genres-conversations that encourage students to be active, enthusiastic readers. Probst's updates and revisions speak directly to today's busy teacher, offering: - a clear, coherent rationale for a more humane approach to literature teaching
- workshop activities that encourage adolescents to formulate articulate responses to texts, and that fit neatly into your existing curriculum
- extensive new suggestions for testing and evaluation in a standards-based education environment, complete with a variety of assessment rubrics and tools
- fresh ideas for utilizing television and film to bolster print literacy and make students more critically astute viewers
- a fully revised and updated discussion of contemporary young adult literature, including new examples, a compendium of online and print YAL resources, and a bibliography of the latest research and professional writing on the subject.
Teachers who have long trusted Probst's techniques for engaging student readers will be excited to find that Response and Analysis, Second Edition invites them into a new dialogue about teaching literature, while new readers will discover how this comprehensive guide uses best-practice literature instruction to help teens make the most of the magical moments they share with authors.
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Product Review Summary: Disappointed I have to say I was very disappointed with this book when it arrived. I bore with it for the first hundred pages although I felt that there was too much emphasis on why we use this type of teaching method and not enough information on how. I wanted ideas that I felt would work with my students and I found very few of these, some of the suggestions were just plain silly and would turn a literature discussion into a type of group therapy such as 'what memory does this poem remind you of'. I don't know, maybe American students are different to Irish ones, but I know mine have a resistance to exposing the inner workings of their hearts and minds to fellow students who would possibly find it hilarious and I know that although reader response criticism is a good counterbalance to the way literature was taught in our day when the thoughts and feelings of the student didn't matter too much, has the pendulum swung too far in the other direction? Aren't we supposed to be discussing literary texts, not the psyches of our students. Anyway, I felt that many of these suggestions just wouldn't work with many classes and that there was very little that I could actually apply or that would improve my teaching.
Product Review Summary: Not what I expected I wanted a few starter lists of questions to help get the dialog going for literature classes.
Product Review Summary: Excelent delivery I was very pleased with the condition of this book and the prompt delivery. It arrived just in time for the start of my class and is an excelent resourse for the English classroom giving good ideas and book titles to try in the high school and junior high room. Many of the tips and exercises are very useful and easy to establish in any class.
Product Review Summary: Should be required for all who teach English Based on sound research and practical experience, Response and Analysis should be required reading for all English and language arts teachers. At first glance, the book may seem too "scholarly" and intimidating for some readers, but Probst's tone is comfortable, conversational, even entertaining, making the text surprisingly easy to read. Most importantly, however, Response and Analysis is inspirational and motivational: Robert Probst has completely changed the way I think about teaching literature. My students and I are grateful!
Product Review Summary: Presuming you have the time... As a book on reading, I find it ironic how un-reader friendly the layout and structure of the text is; the second chapter alone is 70 pages and laid out terribly. That said, I've never seen an educator so seamlessly connect literary theory, educational philosophy and classroom practice: if you're willing to invest the time to slough through the chapters, you'll find brilliant and extremely usable activities to use in the literature classroom, done in the ideological context we all want to manifest You will not be able to skim this book (the layout makes it impossible), but you will be enlightened when reading it--just know that it will take days to do so. If you're a pre-service teacher like myself, I would actually suggest you take a look through it after your student teaching but before you begin your first job...you'll want to be asking the sort of questions the text demands, just not when you're trying to keep your life in order.
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