The Art of Reading People: Character, Expression, Interpretation

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.01.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. The Science Behind Connecting to Literature
  5. Opening Up the Character Analysis Toolkit
  6. Strategies
  7. Introduction to the Unit
  8. Activity: Nonverbal Communication
  9. Socratic Seminar: Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son"
  10. Collaborative Activity: Interpreting Character Change in the Short Story "Shells"
  11. Character Journals and the Novel Indigo
  12. Culminating Activity: Take a Walk in My Shoes
  13. Notes
  14. Common Core Standards for Fifth Grade
  15. Resources on the Web for Teachers

Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Characters

Nancy Ventresca

Published September 2011

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Notes

  1. 1 Hughes, Langston. Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1994.
  2. 2 "Journey to Excellence: Socratic Seminars." Journey to Excellence. http://www.journeytoexcellence.org/practice/instruction/theories/miscideas/socratic/ (accessed July 29, 2011).
  3. 3 Rylant, Cynthia. Every Little Thing. New York, NY: Simon and Shuster Books for Young Readers, 1985
  4. 4 Hoffman, Alice. Indigo. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc. 2002
  5. 5 Jaen Portillo, Isabel. 2006. Didactic narratives: Literary characters and human learning processes. Paper presented at the Modern Language Association of Philadelphia, December 2006 in Philadelphia, PA.
  6. 6 Zunshine, Lisa. Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 2006.
  7. 7 Gallese, Vittorio and Alvin Goldman. "Mirror Neurons and the Simulation Theory of Mind Reading." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2, no. 12 (1998): 493-501.
  8. 8 Zunshine, Lisa. Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 2006.
  9. 9 Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2008.
  10. 10 Grandin, Temple. Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports From My Life With Autism. 2 nd ed. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2006.
  11. 11 Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1999.
  12. 12 Kennedy, Gerald, ed. The Portable Edgar Allan Poe. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006.
  13. 13 Austen, Jane. Pride and Predjudice. United Kingdom: T. Egerton, Whitehall, 1813.
  14. 14 Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1950.
  15. 15 Genette, Gerard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1979.
  16. 16 Kennedy, Gerald, ed. The Portable Edgar Allan Poe. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006.
  17. 17 Hughes, Langston
  18. 18 Browning, Robert, My Last Duchess". In Poetry X 16 June 2003, http://poetry.poetryxcom/poems134/ (29 July 2011).
  19. 19 Hoffman, Heinrich. Slovenly Betsy. Bedford, Massachusetts: Applewoods Books, 1999
  20. 20 Hoffman, Heinrich, Slovenly Betsy. Bedford, Massachusetts: Applewoods Books, 1999.
  21. 21 Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. United Kingdom: Chapman and Hall, 1843.
  22. 22 Ekman, Paul and Wallace Friesen. FACS: A Technique for the Measurement of Facial Movement. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1978.
  23. 23 Lyman, Peter, Mizuko Ito, Michael Carter, and Barrie Thorne. DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH | Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media. http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/ (accessed July 29, 2011).
  24. 24 Gillespie, Tim. "Why Literature Matters". The English Journal 83, no. 8, Literature, Queen of the Curriculum (Dec., 1994: pp. 16-21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/820324.
  25. 25 Literary Reflections. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt, 1999.

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