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Engaging Students with Gaps: The Whale and the Cigar.
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Fowler, Lois Josephs; Pesante, Linda Hutz – English Journal, 1989
Shows how to help students fill in textual "gaps" to interact more fully with contemporary texts, classics, and myths. Presents examples of this approach for studying (1) Shakespeare's "Hamlet" with Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"; and (2) George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" with the…
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