The Literature Workshop : Teaching Texts and Their Readers

Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Principles for Practice 1(19) Part I. Teaching and Learning Literature: Understanding Tradition, Rethinking Practice Stories from the Classroom: Lessons on Learning Literature 20(14) From Telling to Teaching: The Literature Workshop in Action 34(26) Part II. How Readers and Texts Make Meaning Which Interpretation Is the Right One? A Workshop on Literary Meaning 60(19) The Problem of Background Knowledge: A Workshop on Intertextual Literacy 79(18) Part III. How to Talk and Write About Literature Where Do Interpretations Come From? 97(26) What's Worth Saying About a Literary Text? 123(28) Part IV. Writing Assignments in Literature Classes: Perennial Problems and Provisional Solutions Writing Assignments in Literature Classes: The Problem 151(13) Writing Assignments in Literature Classes: Models for Solutions-in-Progress 164(23) Part V. The Foundations of Literary Knowledge Honoring Readers and Respecting Texts: Value and Authority in Literary Interpretation 187(16) What Do Students Need to Learn? The Dimensions of Literary Competence 203(16) Works Cited 219(10) Index 229