Rosenblatt:
First of all, this article has a ton of high vocabulary. It was not an easy read at parts. I have been fighting being sick the past several days too, and we all know how much harder it is to think and comprehend when your mind is foggy. I feel this way this week, so this was bad timing for this reading. I feel like I had a few quotes along the way that helped me get at the writers point I think.
“At any point during the reading, we have already noted, awareness includes also reactions, emotional and intellectual, to the very ideas, events, characters, situations being experienced as the evocation. During a reading event, there can be a certain back-and-forth fluctuation of stances.”
Notice that this quote does not have tons of SAT words. That may be why I could use this sentence as a summary for a section. It reminds me that there are a lot of different ways a reader can approach a text and that this approach even shifts during the reading. Different parts of text can trigger the reader to flow from one way of thinking to another way of thinking. This next quote I feel helped make more sense of that concept and made more sense to me than a lot of what I had read so far.
“The reading process, then, should be thought of as encompassing a flow of fluid states of mind emerging into the focus of attention, shaped by reader, text, and context—a series of momentary changing, synthesized patterns, organized as the evocation that is constituted for the memory as that work and that is accompanied throughout by concurrent strands of thought and feeling.”
I know the author was saying a lot more than this during this long 30 plus page article, but I am quoting and discussing what I got out of it. I am sure I would get more out of it if my mind was not so foggy. Much like the other article, it reminds me that reading, comprehending, and responding is far from a simple, linear concept. There is so much going on between the author, the text, the reader, and the context. There are many ways a reader can approach and deal with a text. There are many external and internal variables that affect the way readers experience text. When you put all of this information together, it seems there are truly countless ways that can affect and alter readers responses to text.
Sipe:
This article focused on four areas of interest surrounding children’s literary responses. The author of this article has done their research. There were two plus pages of references. They discussed so many different authors research on this topic along with their personal experience and research. There was a lot in this article that I am not sure I have ever thought about. There is just so much to think about when it comes to a student dealing with literature. It can seem overwhelming to think about it all.
The author just touched on every topic that they discussed, but they touched on every topic. They explained the research that has been done and seemed to end by saying they hope research would continue on this topic. Responding to literature is not a simple task even for young readers. So many different variables are a play when a student takes on a piece of literature. All of these variables need to be remembered when assigning a reading individually or to a class. Just as the author of the text brings so much to the table that explains their writing, readers bring so much to the table that explains their responses.
I think the culture and gender discussions were the most interesting to me. I would love to know how much of the gender response is truly instinctual and how much of it is learned from our surroundings. I also found the culture discussion interesting because I have worked in the inner city with a lot of African American and I know that if I were to teach back in my hometown that I would be dealing with a lot of Hispanics. It would be interesting to see how their take on certain pieces of literature various from that of a White student. I even thought pop culture was an interesting discussion point. I feel like children these days are surrounded by this cultural phenomenon so much that we should find ways to use it to our advantage in the classroom. I feel the same way about technology. Why not meet students where they are. I would have fun incorporating pop culture into literature if I were ever given the change. This article was again a reminder that there is so much to think about when being a teacher and dealing with students. This allows me once again to feel a little overwhelmed at the task of teaching that is before me.
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