Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience

Reading Actively in Middle Grade Language Arts

Don K. Philpot (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6000-9 (ISBN)

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Many middle grade novels published in the past 50 years focus on the personal experiences of a prominent fictional world individual age 10-14. This singular focus on one adolescent character, which is sustained for the full length of the novel, is most common in contemporary realistic or period novels. To explore the personal experiences of a prominent fictional young person with middle grade students, teachers will select novels whose exclusive focus is the lived experiences of one fictional world individual age 10-14 and guide students’ efforts to develop full and enlightened understandings about these individuals. Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience: Reading Actively in Middle Grade Language Arts draws on the personal experiences of eight fictional young people in an effort to answer three key questions: What can middle grade students learn about a prominent adolescent character in a middle grade novel by focusing on the personal experiences of that individual? In what ways do middle grade students benefit from reading assigned novels with a sustained focus on character experience and the personal experiences of a fictional young person? How can middle grade language arts teachers help their students to read assigned novels with a sustained focus on character experience?

Don K. Philpot is a teacher, teacher educator, and writer. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the topics of instructional methodologies, content area reading, reading and writing instruction, and children’s literature in Pennsylvania.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. One Crazy Summer: One Character’s Experience Briefly

Chapter 2. Character Experience Explained: Jesse Aarons in Bridge To Terabithia

Chapter 3. The Lived Experiences of Gilly Hopkins in The Great Gilly Hopkins

Chapter 4. The Lived Experiences of Brian Robeson in Hatchet

Chapter 5. The Lived Experiences of Lolly Rachpaul in The Stars Beneath Our Feet

Chapter 6. The Lived Experiences of Frannie Barnes in Feathers

Chapter 7. The Lived Experiences of Doug Swieteck in Okay For Now

Chapter 8. The Recalled Experiences of Katie Takeshima in Kira-Kira

Chapter 9. Classroom Explorations of Character Experience

Appendix A-C

References

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 231 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4758-6000-5 / 1475860005
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-6000-9 / 9781475860009
Zustand	Neuware