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Cherland, Meredith; Shrofel, Salina – Theory into Practice, 1998
Describes a teacher educator's return to high school English teaching, reflecting on her disappointment and dissatisfaction with her teaching of "Macbeth" and examining five uses of theory for better understanding the school, the students, the text, the essays, and the act of reading. The paper highlights the importance of race, social…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, English Instruction, Essays, High Schools
"Critical" Reader Response in an Urban Classroom: Creating Cultural Texts to Engage Diverse Readers.

Blake, Brett Elizabeth – Theory into Practice, 1998
Using a critical model of reader response to literature in diverse urban secondary classrooms is important. The model helps teachers encourage diverse readers to generate their own text so they can engage with text that is more interesting than the traditional canon and become more willing and able to respond. Samples of diverse urban students'…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Cultural Relevance, Diversity (Student), English Instruction