Response & Analysis, Second Edition : Teaching Literature in Secondary School

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Summary: Presuming you have the time...
Review: As a book on reading, I find it ironic how un-reader friendly the layout and structure of the text is; the second chapter alone is 70 pages and laid out terribly. That said, I've never seen an educator so seamlessly connect literary theory, educational philosophy and classroom practice: if you're willing to invest the time to slough through the chapters, you'll find brilliant and extremely usable activities to use in the literature classroom, done in the ideological context we all want to manifest You will not be able to skim this book (the layout makes it impossible), but you will be enlightened when reading it--just know that it will take days to do so. If you're a pre-service teacher like myself, I would actually suggest you take a look through it after your student teaching but before you begin your first job...you'll want to be asking the sort of questions the text demands, just not when you're trying to keep your life in order.