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Peer reviewedZacharias, Martha E. – English Quarterly, 1997
Shares personal and profound experiences that permitted the emergence of a method of response to literature, circles of meaning, including excerpts of a master's thesis case study of a student making meaning of short stories using the method. Notes some of the learnings that this experience brought into the author's work with education students.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, High Schools, Reader Response, Reading Writing Relationship
Peer reviewedDraayer, Ken – English Quarterly, 1998
Describes the gradual breakthroughs and the classroom procedures in one teacher's efforts to find a pedagogy for poetry that would side-step or eliminate the need for a direct assault on meaning. Discusses the complex first response to poems. Uses visual art to encourage looking and seeing over judging, and reporting over interpretation. (PA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Grade 10, High Schools
