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Klasek, Catherine Huey – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This paper addresses my experience with a group of 11th grade students and their reading of The Grapes of Wrath (1939, 2002) by John Steinbeck. I questioned how the application of visual arts integration strategies, specifically the use of spontaneously created paintings, might influence the reader responses of my high school junior-level…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Visual Arts, Reader Response, Cognitive Processes
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Janeczko, Paul B.; Mathews, Kim – English Journal, 1990
Describes an individualized instructional unit on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" that focused on students' responses to the novel's plot, character, theme, and structure. Reports that students wrote good quality essays, performed well on a test of the novel, and engaged in serious discussion of the novel during student…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classics (Literature), English Instruction, Grade 11
Johnston, Ingrid; Mangat, Jyoti – 2000
A study explored whether high school readers respond significantly differently to African novels in which unfamiliar cultural elements are presented "aggressively" than to those with an "assimilative" presentation of unfamiliar cultural elements. The three novels are set in Africa: Nancy Farmer's "A Girl Named…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, African Literature, Attitude Measures, Audience Awareness