Comments on: I Hate Literary Analysis – Part 4

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:04:50 +0000

Oh, I love the pictures!! Thank you for sharing your feelings about Literary Analysis so honestly. I am learning so much from you. Thank you again.

By: KB

KB — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:54:13 +0000

WOW!!! This is awesome! Your son put this event together? That is incredible!

I love that you said, “I was SO stressed out about literature analysis. It seemed like we always failed at reading comprehension and the review questions that were provided.”

Yes! Yes! I am there, too! But I KNOW my children understand what they read and what we have talked about because they retain it and it pops up in conversation later.

I think the review questions on the standard tests mess up opinionated children; for instance, on global warming articles if the children disagree with the premise, they are loathe to put the answer the test expects. Ah, but you give me hope. My child’s worth is not revealed by a testing score.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:43:27 +0000

Hi Teresa,
I agree, there are children who like literary analysis and work best that way – just like some are a good fit for workbooks or hands on projects. It’s all about the fit. We did use the writing program “Learn to Write the Novel Way” to get the terminology of literary analysis.
Blessings,
Lee

By: Teresa Burnham

Teresa Burnham — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:54:21 +0000

I enjoyed reading these articles. I am coming from the other aspect, I think. We have done so little besides “just reading”, and I haven’t stressed about it, but I would like to add in just a bit here and there. I want all my kids to recognize the terminology, etc. We are trying Progeny Press this year–I plan to pick from it, and use it for vocab stimulation, and I don’t know what else. It’s kind of an experiment.

And I think we should remember there will be those few children who may happen to love both reading AND literary analysis and be good at it. My oldest daughter is like that (she’s graduated now). Of course with them they gravitate toward it and pick it up so easy, so it wasn’t like I had to work to encourage her there.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:34:39 +0000

Dante’s Inferno! Is it very strange to say “sounds like fun?” LOL!
Blessings,
Lee

By: Diane Allen

Diane Allen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:02:54 +0000

OK – my boys didn’t love Jane Austen but they both enjoyed Hawthorne and Shakespeare among others. I called my recent graduate one winter day and asked what he was doing on his day off work. The answer: I’m reading The Inferno. I remember we read part of it in high school and thought I’d enjoy the whole thing!

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By: J White

J White — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:36:56 +0000

Too bad we couldn’t go – but maybe next year we won’t have a sick child! Thanks for the article. Long ago I came to the conclusion myself that not all of us are cut out to be English professors or book critics for newspapers. Why write tons of book reports on absolutely wretched books if only a miniscule percentage of the population actually earns a living doing so? I think most people could learn to love reading if they aren’t beaten over the head with books they don’t relate to. And hey, maybe maybe maybe a die-hard sci-fi/fantasy lover like me could learn to like Jane Austen out of sheer curiosity just because several friends recommend the books

By: Lisa in ME

Lisa in ME — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:38:04 +0000

Please keep sharing all this great stuff, Lee! You give the rest of us hope.

By: Kathleen SHS

Kathleen SHS — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:16:24 +0000

Totally, totally, wonderful event! Even my 6 and 7 yo LOVE Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. We finally bought the movie from PBS (Masterpiece Theater classics) and paper dolls from Rainbow, too.

My 14 yo has read many of her novels and would have loved to go to the “Pemberly Ball.”

Keep up the great work, Alex!