Independent Reading Project: Creating a Museum of Living Literature Ess

Independent Reading Project Creating a Museum of Living literature1. Problem Statement In preparation for the Advanced Placement Literature and Composition exam, tall school students must read many kinds of literature during the year-long course to familiarize themselves with different time periods, movements, philosophies, and genres. Advanced Placement students must decide to think critically, and be ready to find, analyze, and express literary connections through written analysis. The biggest challenge of teaching and learning Advanced Placement English is the difficulty showing the entire scope of literature in two semesters. Twentieth century literature often gets neglected. The pace of the curriculum can also limit the creative thinking of lesson planning and evaluation. Many teachers rely heavily on lecture, discussion, and a traditional analysis paper. To add some variety to traditional teaching and learning strategies, a teacher might design an independent project w here students work in team ups and focus collaboratively on a single novel from the twentieth century. Each team would read a selected book and work together to create artifacts that would be shared with the other teams. Through collaborative work and sharing, students would be able to appreciation the concepts and connections of several works of literature. The project outlined in section 5 will target twentieth century literature. 2. Target Audience The target reference is two sections of the Advanced Placement English Class. There are approximately 24 students in each class. These students are in their final year of high school at St. Pius X Catholic High School. The classes are coed, ranging in ages between 17-18 years old. The... ...to create.7. Works CitedBlumenfeld, P. C., Solloway, E., Marx, R. W., Krajcik, J. S., Guzdial, M., & Palincsar, A. (1991). Motivating projectbased learning Sustaining the doing, backing the learning. Educational Psychologist, 26(3 & 4), 3 69398. Available October 17, 2002, from Professional Development Collection database http//search.epnet.comTurner, J., & Paris, S. G. (1995). How literacy tasks influence childrens motivation for literacy. The Reading Teacher, 48(8), 662673. Available October 17, 2002, from Professional Database Collection database http//search.epnet.com/Wang, S.K., & Han, S. (2001). Six cs of motivation. In M. Orey (Ed.), Learning, teaching, & technology. Retrieved September 15, 2002, from University of Georgia, Dept. of Instructional Technology Web site http//itstudio.coe.uga.edu/ebook/6csmotivation.htm