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Schillinger, Trace – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
In 2006, a secondary English and feminist studies teacher created a course and designed a study around a reading exchange for eighth-grade girls from two vastly different communities. Girls from a school in a northeastern state read young adult novels and wrote about their reading and related topics with girls from Washington, DC on a wikispace…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Background, Differences
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Thein, Amanda Haertling – Journal of Literacy Research, 2009
This paper begins with the assumption that the interpretive practices people acquire in social worlds often transfer to their stances toward and interpretations of worlds encountered in literature (Beach, Thein, & Parks, 2007). The goal of this paper is to identify the history and logic behind one student's negative, ambivalent, and positive…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Reader Response, Logical Thinking, Case Studies