Tag Archives: responding to literature
Novels as Mentor Texts
The Northern Nevada Writing Project’s Writing Fix site contains a terrific section of lesson plans on Using Chapter Book Excerpts as Mentor Texts. What does that mean? It means the terrific writing we admire in our favorite novels can be … Continue reading
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Metaphorically Speaking
Stenhouse has put out a new book that I can’t recommend enthusiastically enough. Rick Wormeli’s Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching Any Subject adds to the canon of distinguished titles which deal with the topic of metaphor. His work, … Continue reading
Unpacking Passages
If you dug the idea of using Quote Analysis, or if you teach The Great Gatsby, you’ll want to see the Unpacking Passages pages over at TeachEng.us. What I like about Ben Davis’ approach is that he created an acronym which … Continue reading
The Hero Myth
One topic which I casually mention in my How to Teach a Novel workshop that stirs a lot of interest is the Hero Myth as described in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. According to Campbell’s introduction, A … Continue reading
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When Will We Ever Use This Stuff?
You’re reading this post at the old How to Teach a Novel site. Continue reading this post or the most recent post at the new site. “When will we ever use this stuff?” is an oft heard refrain in middle and … Continue reading
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