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Peer reviewedKutiper, Karen – Exercise Exchange, 1982
An approach to teaching the novel to high school students by tying literature and the printed media (newspapers and magazines) together is described in this brief article. PROCEDURE (excerpt): To link the study of the printed media to the study of the novel, book reviews, one positive and one negative, were duplicated for classroom use. Students…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, High Schools, Learning Activities, Literary Criticism
Download full textShackelford, Lynne – Exercise Exchange, 1982
An approach to teaching literary point of view to high school and college composition classes is described in this brief article. AUTHOR'S COMMENT (excerpt): My students demonstrate little understanding of the concept of point of view. They seem unaware that selecting a point of view is an important decision for a writer, because it controls the…
Descriptors: College English, High Schools, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedSimpson, Jeanette – Exercise Exchange, 1982
An approach to generating enthusiasm for writing through a writing contest is described in this brief article. AUTHOR'S COMMENT (excerpt): Why would a librarian sponsor a writing contest for more than eleven hundred students in an elementary school? I wanted to provide a writing experience for my students that would be a positive one; I hoped to…
Descriptors: Competition, Elementary Education, Film Criticism, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedLampert, Kathleen W. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Describes an assignment to focus students' attention on the thinking process in which students write dialogues that reproduce concretely the dialectic movement of a formal argument. Includes a more advanced exercise in which students' address the remarks of literary critics. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, High Schools, Higher Education
