Reader Response in Secondary and College Classrooms

Abstract

Contents: Preface. Part I: Transactional Theory of Literature. N.J. Karolides, Transactional Theory of Literature. R.C. Small, Connecting Students and Literature: What Do Teachers Do and Why Do They Do It? L. Christenbury, The Guy Who Wrote This Poem Seems to Have the Same Feelings as You Have: Reader-Response Methodology. R.E. Probst, Writing From, of, and About Literature. Part II: Initiating Readers' Responses: Classroom Processes. J.G. Boyum, Reader Response at the Movies. R. Luce, Mending Walls: Using a Reader-Response Approach to Teach Poetry. P. Kelly, Two Reader-Response Classrooms: Using Pre-reading Activity and Readers Theatre Approaches. D. Appleman, I Understood the Grief: Theory Based Introduction to Ordinary People. Part III: Developing Readers' Responses: Classroom Processes. M. Toman, Teaching, Eudora Welty's Petrified Man: Expanding Preliminary Insights. L. Varvel, Reader Response to Drama: Prospecting for Human Understandings and Connections. M.J. Shaars, Hill-Climbing With Thoreau: Creating Meaningful Carryover. E.A. Poe, Intensifying Transactions Through Multiple Text Exploration: A Literature Circle Approach to Novels Set in the United States During World War II. N.J. Karolides, Role Play Experiences: Expanding Readers' Responses to Literature. D.H. Roen, A Writing to Learn/Reader Response Approach to Teaching Antigone. Part IV: Exploring Differences: Gender, Race, and Culture. L. Quinn, Trifles as Treason: Coming to Consciousness as a Gendered Reader. D.W. Furniss, Reading and Teaching From the Outside: Responding to Native American Literature. A.I. Willis, Cultivating Understandings Through Reader Response: Dawn's Responses to Things They Carried and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. J. Glazier, M. McVee, S. Wallace-Cowell, B. ShellhornWith T.E. Raphael, S. Florio-Ruane, Teacher Learning About Culture in Response to Autobiographical Literature. L.A. Spears-Bunton, Calypso, Jazz, Reggae, Salsa: Literature for Adolescents From the African Diaspora. J.E. Brown, L.G. Harrison, Reader Responses to Roethke's My Papa's Waltz: Exploring Different Perspectives.