The appreciation of the short story applies seven reader response strategies posed by Beach and Marshall (1990); they are describing, conceiving, explaining, interpreting, engaging, connecting and judging.
The guiding questions are constructed based on the strategies, but this research only takes the first step (describing) as the tool to analyze the literature reading because the students’ background are not from English department
In this step, students describe and explain about the information from the short story. Students describe the character of the story, the plot and the setting. It means the students retell the story and describe it. When reading the short story, every student will find different aspects in the same short story. They will tell the story the most interesting part in their point of view, at least three sentences in each explanation. To have a good understanding in analyzing the short story, they can choose the most interesting one. So, it has the possibilty that their point of view in understanding the short story will be different. This difference can be supported the discussion in their comments.
The steps of describing are:
1. What do you think of the character of the story? Is he/she good or bad?
Do you like or dislike him/her? Why?
2. Where does the story happen? Do you like the setting? Why?
3. Does the story tell about good things?
4. Is the story reasonable?
Is the style of the story communicative of figurative? Explain it.
5. What event in the story do you think very important? Why?
The Reader response strategies guide the students to give their own personal response
Monday, May 12, 2008
The Reader’s Response Strategy
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plot: forward
ReplyDeletethe setting of story in the grandmother's home at the florida
point of view the writer no used in the story
characterization,father:selfish,
mother:patient
grandmother:selfish,Aroggant
john wesley:a kind man
june star:a kind girl
*Simile:a young woman in slacks, whose face was as broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with a green head-kerchief that had two points on the top like rabbit's ears.
genre:Dramatic
irony:Everyone in the family was shot death.
plot : forward
ReplyDeletesetting : On the way when the family trip from Georgia to Florida.
methaphor : The grandmother tried to calm down Misfit not to shoot her but Misfit finally shot her.
Irony : Then the grandmother realized that she was wrong because of that she upsetted her valise and the cat sprang up and clang to Bailey’s neck, Bailey was surprised and could not control the car and they had an accident
2. The story happen in the trip to Florid. I like the setting, especialy ,accident of killed Bailey family's in the forrest, without readers knows before.
ReplyDelete3. because the genree of this story is Drama Tragedy, so I like this story, although actually this story very scream
4.I think this reasonable, often in the road of America happen some like killed one familly
5. When everyone in the family was shot death, because it's very poor I thing.
1.I think the main character is not good and because didn't cure with another people.
ReplyDelete2. the story happened the granmother to connecting house and I like the setting this story , because make me easy to understand.
3.no, because the story happened accident and want the evry one to sock death.
4.I think the possible to happen because the time many lost to wold.
5.yes becouse this event can the evryone to carefuly when to travelling because many criminal in the way.