Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom by Cynthia D. Urbanski

Author:Cynthia D. Urbanski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The most important thing about all of these topics is that they engage the students with the literature, and they get them writing about it. All of them also give students practice with important reading strategies. But again, simply assigning one of these is not enough. The assignment must eventually work into something bigger. The “something” can be as simple as discussion or as complex as a published writing.

Writing Project Co-Leader Nodghia Fesperman did a presentation on reader response in which she showed us how she sometimes moved her senior English classes through the different levels of response:

Reader Response

Please write in paragraph form.

Summary

• Get the gist.

• Read literally.

• Avoid ambiguities.

• Avoid personal opinions.

• Use third person pronoun.

Response

• Give personal reactions to text.

• Consider the language of the text.

• Ponder what the text means.

• Use first person pronoun.

Connection

• Relate the text to your personal experience, to literature, to history, to movies, and/or to television.

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