Creating the Literature Portfolio

by Purves, Alan C.; Quattrini, Joseph A.

• ISBN13: 9780844259505
• ISBN10: 0844259500
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: Ntc Pub Group

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Portfolios, Literature, and You	1	(36)
Looking Ahead	1	(1)
The Basics of Portfolios	2	(5)
What Is a Portfolios?	2	(1)
What Does a Portfolio Look Like?	3	(1)
What Is in a Portfolio?	3	(1)
How Do I Manage a Portfolio?	4	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Name the Portfolio Owner	5	(1)
Toward a Definition of Literature	6	(4)
The Medium	7	(1)
The Form	8	(1)
The Purpose	9	(1)
The Content	9	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Your Own Literature Definition	10	(1)
From Reading to Critical Reading	11	(6)
Reading as a Gap Filler	11	(6)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Fill in the Gaps	17	(3)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Finding Ironies	20	(6)
Defining Critical Reading	23	(1)
Critical Reading and the Literature Class	24	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at What You Are Looking At	26	(2)
Pulling Things Together	28	(3)
A Checklist of General Goals	28	(1)
Materials for Your Portfolio	28	(3)
Building Your Portfolio	31	(2)
Reader's Forum	33	(1)
Portfolio Progress Report	34	(1)
Moving On	35	(2)
Keeping Tabs on Your Reading	37	(38)
Looking Ahead	37	(1)
Getting a Sense of Who and What You Are as a Reader	38	(3)
The Basics of Written Text	38	(1)
Reading Practices	39	(1)
A Reading Autobiography	40	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Your Reading Autobiography	41	(3)
Projections and Interpretations	42	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Making Music	44	(1)
Ways of Looking at Literature	45	(7)
The Triangle Approach	45	(1)
Beyond the Triangle	46	(6)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Your Own Response	52	(2)
Possibilities for Portfolio Organization	54	(4)
Methods of Organization	55	(1)
Organization within the Organization	56	(1)
Electric Reading	57	(1)
Your Approach	57	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Design an Anthology	58	(1)
Determining Your Goals as a Reader	58	(6)
Four General Purposes for Reading	58	(2)
Criteria for Measuring Progress	60	(2)
Assessing Where You Are	62	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Preliminary Self-Assessment	64	(3)
Writing Goals	64	(3)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Write Goal Statements	67	(1)
Building Your Portfolio	67	(6)
Response Journal	68	(1)
Dialogue Journal	69	(1)
Burke's Pentad	70	(1)
Study Guide	71	(2)
Reader's Forum	73	(1)
Portfolio Progress Report	73	(1)
Moving On	74	(1)
Perspectives for Interpreting Meaning	75	(32)
Looking Ahead	75	(1)
The Meaning of Meaning	76	(2)
Contexts as Determiners of Meaning	76	(2)
One Method for Constructing Meaning: Claim, Data, And Warrant	78	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Applying the Method	78	(4)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Making an Interpretation	82	(1)
Getting Into A Text	82	(7)
Some Basic Understandings	83	(1)
Marking Up the Text	84	(5)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Your Own Interpretation	89	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Creating Warrants	89	(3)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Analyzing a World View	92	(1)
Perspectives for Interpretation	93	(4)
The Writer's Life and Times	94	(1)
The Reader	95	(1)
The Work Itself	95	(2)
Connections to Other Works, People, and Events	97	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Using the Guides	97	(2)
Building Your Portfolio	99	(5)
Correspondence Course	100	(1)
Extending the Action	100	(1)
Changes in Meaning, Meaning in Changes	100	(1)
Your Notes	101	(1)
Making the Storyboard	101	(2)
Kinesthetic Approaches	103	(1)
Reader's Forum	104	(1)
Portfolio Progress Report	104	(1)
Moving On	105	(2)
Using the Language and Devices of Literature	107	(38)
Looking Ahead	107	(1)
Figurative Language and Word Choice	108	(1)
Figurative Comparisons	109	(7)
Substitutions and Representations	112	(1)
Changes in Degree	113	(1)
Contradictions, Oppositions, Juxtapositions	114	(2)
Why Don't We Just Say What We Mean?	116	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Analyzing Figurative Language	116	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Working with a Conceit	116	(3)
Word Meanings and Choices	118	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Analyzing Connotations	119	(1)
Beyond the Words: Archetypes	119	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Initiations	121	(1)
Literary Maps Through the Words	122	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Your Own Ladder of Abstraction	123	(1)
Terms for Writing about Literature	123	(8)
Agent: Who Did It?	126	(2)
Act: What Was Done?	128	(1)
Scene: When and Where Was It Done?	129	(1)
Agency: How Was It Done?	129	(1)
Purpose: Why Was It Done?	130	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Using the Pentad for Interpretation	131	(1)
Techniques for Writing about Literature	131	(6)
Reviewing a Work	132	(1)
Writing about Theory and Criticism	132	(1)
Some Responses: The Bad and the Good	133	(2)
An Essay Response Plan	135	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Write Using an Essay Response Plan	137	(4)
Building Your Portfolio	141	(2)
Reader's Forum	143	(1)
Portfolio Progress Report	143	(1)
Moving On	144	(1)
Dress Rehearsal: A Portfolio of Portfolios	145	(24)
Looking Ahead	145	(1)
Building Your Portfolio	146	(17)
``Law Like Love''	146	(5)
Round Table of Critical Perspectives	151	(1)
``Something Wicked This Way Comes''	152	(2)
The Literary Canon and the Coffee Shop	154	(1)
Eighteen Things to Do With a Poem	155	(2)
A Pairing: The Things They Carried and Song of Solomon	157	(3)
A Hypertext on Mansfield Park	160	(3)
Your Way	163	(1)
Reader's Forum	163	(1)
Portfolio Progress Report	164	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Cumulative Self-Assessment	165	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Goal Reevaluation	166	(1)
Moving On	167	(2)
Making Connections	169	(30)
Looking Ahead	169	(1)
The Context of Connections	170	(1)
Literary Connections	171	(2)
Connections within a Work	171	(1)
Connections between a Work and Your Experiences	172	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Your Own Contexts	173	(2)
Connections between and among Readers	174	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Do Your Own Readaround	175	(2)
Connections between and among Works	176	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Write Comparative Claims	177	(4)
Connections to Previously Read Selections	179	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: More Connections	181	(2)
Between and Among Cultural and Literary Contexts	183	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Seeing Cultural Connections	185	(7)
Building Your Portfolio	192	(5)
Reader's Forum	197	(1)
Portfolio Progress Report	197	(1)
Moving On	198	(1)
Evaluating and Judging Literature	199	(26)
Looking Ahead	199	(1)
Subject to Interpretation	200	(1)
Bases for Judging Literature	200	(3)
Is the Emotional Impact Successful?	201	(1)
Is the Content Believable?	202	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Classify a Play	203	(3)
Is the Content Imaginative?	204	(1)
Is the Content Important?	204	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Make Your Own Judgments	206	(6)
Is the Writer Sincere?	207	(1)
Is the Content Morally Appropriate?	208	(1)
Is the Work Well Written?	209	(1)
Is the Work Effectively Written?	210	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Your Own Judgments Again
Does the Work Use the Genre Well?	212	(1)
Does the Work Use Tradition Well?	213	(1)
Is the Work Original?	214	(1)
Does the Work Fulfill the Writer's Intention?	215	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Save Little Libbie	215	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Judge the Reviews	216	(3)
Justifying Your Judgments	218	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Write a Review	219	(1)
Describing and Defining Liberary Canons	219	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Review Literary Canons	221	(1)
Building Your Portfolio	221	(1)
Reader's Forum	222	(1)
Portfolio Progress Report	222	(1)
Moving On	223	(2)
Putting It All Together	225	(22)
Looking Ahead	225	(1)
Step 1: Review Your Working Portfolio	226	(5)
Consider Your Goals	226	(2)
Consider Your Audience	228	(1)
Consider Your Purpose	229	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Begin the Selection	231	(1)
Step 2: Assemble the Pieces	231	(9)
Selecting a Conceptual Order	231	(3)
Establishing a Logistical Order	234	(2)
Slotting in the Pieces	236	(1)
Adding the Final Touches	237	(3)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Assemble the Parts	240	(1)
Step 3: Present the Final Portfolio	240	(2)
Evaluating Your Portfolio Presentation	240	(2)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Assess a Presentation	242	(2)
Anticipating Instructor Response	242	(1)
Writing a Grade Proposal	243	(1)
For Your Portfolio Notebook: Final Self-Assessment	244	(1)
Step 4: Wait for a Response	245	(1)
Final Reflections	246	(1)
Acknowledgments	247	(2)
Index	249