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Critically Thinking About Harry Potter: A Framework For Discussing Controversial Works In The English Classroom, Joanne M. Marshall
Critically Thinking About Harry Potter: A Framework For Discussing Controversial Works In The English Classroom, Joanne M. Marshall
Joanne M. Marshall
Since ].K. Rowling's Harry Potter series was first published in 1997, parents, teachers, and readers of all ages have been fans of the boy wizard, enthusiastically standing in bookstore lines at midnight to purchase the next installment, or flocking to the movies, or rushing to buy the DVD. Previously reluctant readers, including young adult readers (MacRae), are suddenly enthralled with a book, and the adults who care for those readers are equally enthralled with its results. Magic, indeed.
Observing Women: Using Annie Leibovitz To Teach Thinking And Writing, Joanne M. Marshall
Observing Women: Using Annie Leibovitz To Teach Thinking And Writing, Joanne M. Marshall
Joanne M. Marshall
Good writing makes a key point and supports it with detailed evidence. In its rubric for students' five-paragraph timed essays, the Illinois state board of education refers to this feature as "Support/Elaboration," or "the degree to which the main point is explained by specific details and reasons" (Illinois State Board of Education, 2002). At its essence, support and elaboration is about students' ability to think critically as they reason and summon evidence to make an argument. There is a solid history of research summarizing the link between thinking critically and writing well, mostly coming from the work of George Hillocks …
Is There A Text In This Class? Adolescents And Literary Theory, Joanne M. Marshall
Is There A Text In This Class? Adolescents And Literary Theory, Joanne M. Marshall
Joanne M. Marshall
Browsing the NCTE bookstalls at the convention last year, I spied a new book by Deborah Appleman, Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literacy Criticism to Adolescents (New York: Teachers College Press, 2000). Ha, I thought, right. Adolescents and phallologocentrism. Or semiotics. They'd love that. I remembered once mentioning literary criticism to a class of "average" juniors. Kyle, folded into his desk, looked at me with complete incredulity: "You mean people write books about other people's books?!" Yes, I assured him. He still looked disbelieving.