Reader Response in Secondary and College Classrooms Book

	Preface
	Contributors
I	The Transactional Theory of Literature	1
1	The Transactional Theory of Literature	3
2	Connecting Students and Literature: What Do Teachers Do and Why Do They Do It?	25
3	"The Guy Who Wrote This Poem Seems to Have the Same Feelings as You Have": Reader-Response Methodology	47
4	Writing From, of, and About Literature	61
II	Initiating Readers' Responses: Classroom Processes	75
5	Reader Response at the Movies	77
6	Mending Walls: Using a Reader-Response Approach to Teach Poetry	93
7	Two Reader-Response Classrooms: Using Prereading Activity and Readers Theatre Approaches	111
8	"I Understood the Grief": Theory-Based Introduction to Ordinary People	123
III	Developing Readers' Responses: Classroom Processes	135
9	Teaching Eudora Welty's "Petrified Man": Expanding Preliminary Insights	139
10	Reader Response to Drama: Prospecting for Human Understandings and Connections	159
11	Hill Climbing With Thoreau: Creating Meaningful Carryover	179
12	Intensifying Transactions Through Multiple Text Exploration: A Literature Circle Approach to Novels Set in the United States During World War II	193
13	Role-Playing Experiences: Expanding Readers' Responses to Literature	207
14	A Writing-to-Learn/Reader-Response Approach to Teaching Antigone	225
IV	Exploring Differences: Gender, Race and Culture	235
15	Trifles as Treason: Coming to Consciousness as a Gendered Reader	239
16	Reading and Teaching From the Outside: Responding to Native American Literature	255
17	Cultivating Understandings Through Reader Response: Dawn's Responses to The Things They Carried and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places	269
18	Teacher Learning in Response to Autobiographical Literature	287
19	Calypso, Jazz, Reggae, Salsa: Literature, Response, and the African Diaspora	311
20	Reader Responses to Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz": Exploring Different Perspectives	327
	Glossary: Key Concepts and Strategies	339
	Bibliography	345
	Author Index	361
	Subject Index	365