Response & Analysis: Teaching Literature in Secondary School

by Robert E. Probst

Book Overview

In this fully updated second edition of Response and Analysis , Robert Probst leads you to fresh methods that build lifelong lovers of reading by opening your literature classroom to the power of student-driven interpretation and analysis. The second edition is chocked full of everything you need to plan and build a curriculum that initiates interpretative and critical conversations with and among your students while exposing them to a variety of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325007160
• ISBN13: 9780325007168
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Excelent delivery

I was very pleased with the condition of this book and the prompt delivery. It arrived just in time for the start of my class and is an excelent resourse for the English classroom giving good ideas and book titles to try in the high school and junior high room. Many of the tips and exercises are very useful and easy to establish in any class.

Should be required for all who teach English

Based on sound research and practical experience, Response and Analysis should be required reading for all English and language arts teachers. At first glance, the book may seem too "scholarly" and intimidating for some readers, but Probst's tone is comfortable, conversational, even entertaining, making the text surprisingly easy to read. Most importantly, however, Response and Analysis is inspirational and motivational: Robert Probst has completely changed the way I think about teaching literature. My students and I are grateful!

Presuming you have the time...

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.