Beyond Words
1. Texts can be poems, novels, plays (scripts), or music sheets.4. Genre is defined as a category used to name and identify a text characterized by a particular form, style, or purpose.
12. Context is the who, what, when and where of a text.
17. Perspective is the illusion of depth in a painting.
18. Point of view is the angle at which a image is portrayed to the audience viewing it.
Strategies
I. Reading styles
A. pleasure
1. read at a leisurely pace and we incorporate ourselves into the characters
B. academic
1. reading to gain understanding and knowledge
II. Reading in steps
A. first read to get a grasp of what is happening in the story, the setting, characters, and plot
B. annotate : make brief notes in the margins about what is happening or define unfamiliar terms
C. sketch outline: note character development, changes in plot, etc. without going into excessive detail
III. Dialogue
A. quotations recorded form the text paired with the reader's response set up in a list format
IV. Patterns
A. patterns of repetition : two or more things that are linked together in the text
B. patterns of opposition : something in the text that created tension or evoked strong negative emotions
1 comment:
Eryn, this is good, but you could develop each point in "Beyond Words" a bit further. Could the term 'perspective' be applied to literature? How? How does the context define the text and its potential interpretation?
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