Conversations in Literature


About CONVERSATIONS IN LITERATURE Individual Program Descriptions 1. Responding as Readers 2. Envisioning 3. Stepping In 4. Moving Through 5. Rethinking 6. Objectifying the Text 7. The Stances in Action 8. Returning to the Classroom Support Materials Teacher-Talk

Introduction

Key Points

Learning Objectives

Background Reading

Homework Assignment

Extension:
Classroom Connection

Ongoing Activity

Additional Reading

Homework Assignment

Journal: How do multiple perspectives and the posing of questions enhance an envisionment-building classroom?

Reading: In preparation for Workshop 5, you may want to read the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Select a passage from the text that you personally connected to or that made you reflect upon a life experience and rethink your way through it.

Some online resources you may want to consult include:

Online versions of the play: Chemicool and the University of Virginia.
A wealth of critical resources on the playwright and his works.
A photo of the first page of the First Folio edition of the play.
A humorous description of Shakespeare's Hamlet, written in Raymond Chandler's style.
A site that facilitates searches for words or lines from all of Shakespeare's plays
A compendium of literary critism sites devoted to the works of Shakespeare.
A collection of nineteenth century works of art devoted to the play.

If you have not already done so, you may also consider reading Dr. Judith Langer's Envisioning Literature, Chapter 2, "Building Envisionments," pages 9-23, which examines the envisionment-building process and defines the stance Stepping Out and Rethinking What One Knows.

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