Interpreting Texts, Making Meaning: Starting Small

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.02.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Content Objectives
  2. Background Research
  3. Teaching Strategies
  4. Classroom Activities
  5. Works Cited
  6. Resources for Teachers
  7. Appendix: Implementing Common Core Standards
  8. Notes

Epigraph-allacy: Using Epigraphs to Elicit Student Interpretations

Leilani Esguerra

Published September 2013

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Works Cited

Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding poetry; an anthology for college students,. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1938.

Brower, Reuben Arthur. The fields of light; an experiment in critical reading.. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.

Burma, Rachel Sagner. "Rachel Sagner Buurma Reviews Rosemary Ahern's "The Art of the Epigraph: How Great Books Begin " | New Republic." New Republic. http://www.newrepublic.com/book/review/art-epigraph-how-great-books-begin-rosemary-ahern# (accessed June 11, 2013).

Genette, Gerard. Paratexts: thresholds of interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hicks, David. "A Rationale for Global Education." UNESCO | Building peace in the minds of men and women. http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_c/popups/mod18t05s02.html (accessed July 10, 2013).

Hirsch, E. D.. The aims of interpretation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

CSU. "Into the Wild Module." CSU Expository Reading and Writing Online Community. writing.csusuccess.org/uploads/PQ/He/PQHeEV6u75pK1rMw3t3g4g/MOD6_Into_the_Wild_TV.pdf (accessed April 18, 2013).

Iser, Wolgang . The Implied Reader. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1974.

Krakauer, Jon. Into the wild. New York: Anchor Books, 1997.

Maynard, John. Literary interpretation, literary intention, and readers. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2009. Print.

Perrine, Laurence. "The Nature of Proof in the Interpretation of Poetry." University of Texas at Austin English Department Website Redirect. http://www.en.utexas.edu/Classes/Bremen/e316k/316kprivate/scans/perrine.html (accessed June 13, 2013).

Read, Adam . "Chris McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp." Chris McCandless . http://www.christophermccandless.info/carinemccandless.html (accessed May 29, 2013).

Rosenblatt, Louise. "Making Meaning with Texts." heinemann.com. www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00768/chapter5.pdf (accessed May 29, 2013).

Wimsatt, William K., and Monroe C. Beardsley. The intentional fallacy. S.l.: s.n., 1946.

Worthington, Jane . "The Epigraphs of T.S. Eliot." American Literature 21 (1949): 1-17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2921214 (accessed May 29, 2013).

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