Recasting the Text

by Claggett, Mary Frances; Reid, Louann; Vinz, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780867094022
• ISBN10: 0867094028
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-18
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

Recasting the Text, a companion volume to Learning the Landscape, provides activities that help students explore multiple ways of reading and re-creating a text in various forms. Examining the concept and uses of intertextuality among works from diverse times, places, and peoples, students see how individuals re-read and re-see human experience through stories. By creating texts themselves and reading clusters of texts from similar sources, students gain new perspectives about the processes of reading and writing. Recasting the Text thoroughly integrates the language arts, utilizing ways of knowing to which students respond most keenly: observing, analyzing, imagining, and reflecting. Students will deal with language and literature experiences through a range of media that includes writing, drawing, and performing, as well as discussion. All strategies have been tested in classrooms across the country and are based on current learning-through language theory. This book can be used alone or as a supplement to any literature and language text. It is especially suitable for grades ten through twelve.

Author Biography

FRAN CLAGGETT taught high school English and humanities for many years. Former department chair and mentor teacher at Alameda High School, Fran was twice named Teacher of the Year in her district and county, where she initiated an achievement and portfolio writing assessment program. Her teaching experience includes college appointments in English, biology, and physical educationshe has also been the James Lynch Lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She has given workshops for teachers across the country, evaluated schools in Guam, and taught in the Bay Area Writing Project Panama and the Virgin Islands summer workshops.

Table of Contents

Exploring the Possibilities: An Introduction; Terms and Concepts You Need to Know; Angles of Vision on a Poem; Building Your Course Portfolio<BR>

Transformations: A Study of Style and Point of View: Modeling Form and Structure; Changing Our Point of View; Creating a Section of Your Course Portfolio<BR>

Translating a Myth into a Painting, a Painting into a Poem; Recasting the Myth of Icarus; Recasting Other Myths; Extending the Myth of Icarus; Challenging Your Imagination<BR>

Truth in Fiction: Classifying Literature; Artistic Truth and Factual Truth; A Short Story and Its Origin; Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction, Life and Art; From Newspaper to Short Story; Creating a Section of Your Course Portfolio<BR>

Transforming Texts through Performance: Reading as a Performer; Reading Oedipus Rex; Transforming Oedipus Rex; Building Your Course Portfolio<BR>

Death and Transformation; Angles of Vision on an Essay; Building Your Course Portfolio