Hello again,
I realize I have repeated the same website as Jina (All the more to check that website out!), and I guess that doesn't count. I’ll leave that post there because it informs you of what else that site has to offer.
Here’s another top 3 take-aways from this other funky website with a really passionate author who encourages…
1. Using Short Stories
This website enthusiastically promotes the use of short stories to teach aspects of literature like Irony, Theme, conflict and points of views. It recommends and provides suitable short stories for the respective lesson types. If you follow the many hyperlinks, you will go to elaborate lesson plans for these lessons that use activities like chart-making to, for example, help students distinguish between the different types of ironies.
2. Using Case Studies and Examples
If you direct yourself to the link on Tones and Moods (important elements in literary texts), this site provides resources on and shows you how to teach the function of these literary techniques to students using examples like movie makers’ selective use of dialogue, editing, music and lighting to establish a certain tone in their films.
3. Using Inference Games and Activities
This link has ideas on how to hone inference skills of students through the use of comics to teach pictorial inferences. Also, it illustrates ways to help them distinguish fact from inferences, and provides tips on how to help students infer definitions of unknown words from contextual clues and inferences through for example real life applications.
This website is rich in resources.
Hi Rachel,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this website. I have to agree that brighthub is really useful! The idea of using short stories to demonstrate elements of literature is ingenious. By nature of the genre, techniques used by authors are amplified when applied to the short story. This will make it easier for students to identify the various elements and recognise subsequent influences on the text.
Speaking of which, I came across Joyce Carol Oates's 2010 short story "Fossil-Figures" recently and I think it would be useful for such a purpose. Themes-wise, it covers everything from conflict and alienation to politics and art. Oates also uses repeated motifs and very distinctive language. Because the techniques are easily recognisable, students will be free to then chart how the techniques develop as the story progresses. Do check it out if you're free! :)
Jina
The use of comics is certainly a creative way to capture the attention of students who are visual learners. Multimodality is a huge part of teaching in the 21st century classroom. Students could move from picture description to interpretation of the text itself. The idea of teaching short stories to the students is also a good idea as it allows them to easily zoom in on the literary devices used in the texts, as compared to long novels.
ReplyDeleteWow, thanks Rachel for sharing this website! I must say the information provided were very detailed and it would really help make the lessons clearer and more interesting!
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