Engaging Students with Gaps: The Whale and the Cigar.

Fowler, Lois Josephs; Pesante, Linda Hutz

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Publication Date: 1989

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Engaging Students with Gaps: The Whale and the Cigar.

Fowler, Lois Josephs; Pesante, Linda Hutz

English Journal, v78 n8 p28-34 Dec 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 films "Educating Rita" and "My Fair Lady." (RS)

Descriptors: Classics (Literature), English Instruction, Films, Literature Appreciation, Mythology, Popular Culture, Reader Text Relationship, Secondary Education, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Text Structure, Twentieth Century Literature

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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