The Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their ReadersIn this groundbreaking book, Sheridan Blau introduces the literature workshop as the most effective approach to solving many of the classic instructional problems that perplex beginning and veteran teachers of literature. Through lively re-creations of actual workshops that he regularly conducts for students and teachers, Blau invites his readers to become active participants in workshops on such topics as:
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... Roethke's poems , called The Lost Son and Other Poems by Theodore Roethke . By the mid - fifties , it was already showing up in college anthologies of poetry . My Papa's Waltz The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy ...
... Roethke's poems , called The Lost Son and Other Poems by Theodore Roethke . By the mid - fifties , it was already showing up in college anthologies of poetry . My Papa's Waltz The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy ...
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... Roethke's case and in the case of this particular poem , we seem to be especially invited to do so . Although the poem was originally published in 1942 , Roethke included it in a 1948 volume of collected poems called The Lost Son ...
... Roethke's case and in the case of this particular poem , we seem to be especially invited to do so . Although the poem was originally published in 1942 , Roethke included it in a 1948 volume of collected poems called The Lost Son ...
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... Roethke . But if that seems a definitive answer , you should know that I have another friend who is himself a distinguished poet and who also knew Roethke . He told me that he had heard Roethke read this poem in a gruff and rough ...
... Roethke . But if that seems a definitive answer , you should know that I have another friend who is himself a distinguished poet and who also knew Roethke . He told me that he had heard Roethke read this poem in a gruff and rough ...
Contents
Lessons on Learning Literature | 20 |
The Literature Workshop in Action | 34 |
How Readers and Texts Make Meaning | 60 |
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