I am working through the Conversations in Literature Workshops individually
and just completed session 3. As I was brainstorming ways to help students
enter the text for the first time, I wondered if an old strategy I had used
would work. In the past, I have had students do mini research projects to
discover information about the time or place in which a novel is set. I
usually let students choose what they learn about, but there are
guidelines. I wonder if this is an effective method of helping them gain
background knowledge that will then help their stepping into a text, or if
this really is a non-authentic assignment that will not help in the long
run.
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Received on Tue Jul 22 13:18:30 2008
