Concept Development!

I really enjoyed Wendy and Whitnee's lesson that they presented to us. Even though I couldn't teach that exact lesson in a high school English class, I immediately was able to start thinking of lessons and concepts that I could share through using that model. One of the concepts that I think can be a difficult one is discovering the reasons characters in literature do the things they do and the thought processes behind those actions. Some students can really struggle with putting themselves into a book, but it is a necessary thing to be able to do when talking about voice, tone, character analysis, and many other components of literature as well. In talking about the concept of relating the text to self, many discussions can arise about other parts of the students' lives that they find relation to in the book. They are able to not only understand the characters we are studying in literature, but also the books as a whole as well as the authors intentions in writing the way they did (when you get to more advanced classes involving literary criticism).